*   Renārs Koris
*   Photography snapshots, reportages, fashion and commercial photography.
*   «My brains are wonderfull creations, well connected to my head. I m lefty, Aquarius, who loves water.He does not sing or play any instruments, but can not imagine his day without music. I am infatuated with evenings and nights, therefore I have tough mornings. Nights have energy, charm, and everything unnecessary disappears from streets, and there is more fresh air to breathe in. You are filled with thought and ideas, which are being generated and realised. After comforting and calm childhood such urban life is very attractive.»
*    «It came spontaneously and suddenly, but it hit me hardly.Photography. And now i am obsessed with it, there are thousands of ideas in my head, and during shooting i get so much positive power and energy. Even if i feel tired before shooting, when it starts, i’m getting into it, and i can’t stop. I prefer and like the most fashion and commercial shooting, because, there are so many ways to create and realise your ideas.»
*   «A perfect model is someone who understands me fully, even if i wave my hand , model already knows how to react. Professionals, its easier to work with them, to get better result.»
*   «Never say never, but at this moment , i couldn’t imagine to shoot some car accident’s with bloody bodies.»
*   «Lot of friends and clients say, that i have some kind of different style and point of view. Me and U we need to know something more, something new, something about ourselves, something, that in result will let us grow as a person. Knowledge and experience allows us to understand, what is white and what is black , what you really like, and what not.»

You can find her at:

flickr / renarskoris.com / modelmayhem / studioimagine / aterno / traveltime

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*   Andrejs Lavrinovičs
*    characters & illustrations.
*     «I’m a young artist, designer from Riga. At this moment I’m study at University of Latvia, at bachelor of art program – computer design (graphic)
deviation. In free time I like to draw something and then mix it up with digital process, so that’s how my stuff is created, other days I like
to paint something traditional or make a little photo session and maybe after that mix it with other objects and make a photo manipulation.
And I also sometimes do something with 3d graphics. But for earning my livelihood I use graphic design like a job and for a
moment I’m a freelancer. Mmm.. About my style, so there u can find a bit neo-surreal meaning..»
*     «So, everyone does something and in the art and design world too, so I chose those categories, because I like them.. And I still have a high growth path ahead, and everything can change, as well as animation and video interests me. Now I just walk in and see what works and what does not.»
*    «Perfection? So, often after a week my latest work brings me to panic and I think it can be better, than it is or it can be deeper.»
*    «I am a little different.»
*     «Who knows what will I never visualise? You know, I like to paint the flowers, but I do not. So, everything can be drastically altered.»
*     He gets inspiration from Other artists, music, movies, books, Buddhism, etc.

You can find him at:

deviantart / endrju

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*   Maija Kurševa
*   Installations, illustrations
*    Latvian art academy, visual communication
*    «The best thing in the yard was hiding in darkness and «kazaki-razboiniki» which involved a lot of territory, up to neighborhood houses. My breasts grew later than other girl’s breasts so I was the one to be uncaught longer. In 90s we bought land for vouchers. I finally could milk a cow, goat, prepare meal for pigs, stir the concrete for home foundations, throw buckets of fertilizer on sugar beet and sit in ridge. I haven’t heard much from «Prosta Maria» episodes. And I had to have my hands over the ears so that parents would not see «stars» studs bought at Jelgava market. The two kilometers from school to home took me and my friend half a day, aligning the grass in ditches and swallowing sweet white bread. If I dream about any of my classmates these are usually nightmares. I have been studying in 8 different schools. Forth was «Lielplatones» elementary school. Fifth – Jelgava boarding school for children with shitty skeleton. Although they didn’t manage to keep me in for more than a year. In handicrafts i learned handicraft and come other stuff. Now I live and work at Andrejsala.»
*   «We all are different. I’ve started drawing in 10th grade, when I thought no one loves nor understands me , which by the way wasn’t true.»
*    She likes coming over to someone and drinking.
*    The majority of her artworks is autobiographical or mendaciously autobiographical.
* The idea of her skinhead character came to her long with the thought about why are people so harsh on each other.
* She began exhibiting in 2004
* «If a person has a need to do something apart from elementary life maintenance – than he has to do that. Drawing isn’t the worst thing to do (there are worse). I think those, who are into Street art have interesting life, though their work on city walls might not always be appreciated or liked, including the authors, but the process itself is valuable. Those are new relationships between people and environment.»
* The most inspirational book : «Hārdija Lediņa Jura Boiko “ZUN”
* Favorite movie : Esteban Sapir “La Antena”

You can find her at:

kurseva.first.lv

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*   Billijs Locs, Billy

*   Photography

*   «I can not imagine what can I say to describe my character. The hardest is to describe myself, for often what you think is you, is not what other people think of you. The same is with photography.»

*  «This might be the reason why  I got involved with photography. To capture the moment, feeling in exact way I see it.»

*   His first serious photograph was made in 2008 winter in New York «New York Rush».

*   «I can never decide between black an white or color. BW photography has qualities that color photography will never have and vice verse.»

*   His perfect subject is something that no one has ever captured.

*   «May be there is something different about me. May be those are just little details of every day life.  May be we are all the same and only few qualities differ us from each other.»

*   «If I will try to think  of something I think I will never visualise than it would not be it anymore. Once I think of something it has to be done».

*   He gets inspiration from world, people and God.

You can find him at:

FLICKR / billyart.net / twitter / draugiem /

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*   Aivis Melniks

*   Photography

*   «Born in Riga, lives in Madona. Have no plans for future»

*   «Photography wasn`t my first choice,  my first big LOVE was painting and drawing- ahah quite a fiasco , but at the age of 15 or 14 I realised ,that I really LOVE to take pictures of my friends, family.»

*   «I think that summer 2008 was quite a breakthrough, that was time when I realised what and why I m doing.»

*   «Strange, but if something doesnt look good in color, it will look good in b/w , works for me every time»

*   Perfect models are Self-confident people

*   «I have a twin sister, but we arent similar at all, so , i believe that everyone is different in every way.»

*   «I will never visualise : Maybe death, pain and war.»

Musical track of his choice :

You can find him at:

Deviantart / Lastfm / tumblr

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This coming Sunday is the 10th anniversary of Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day. If you’ve never pinholed, you’re missing out and if not having a pinhole camera is what’s stopping you — make your own.

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*   Aija Krodere

*   Photography

*   «I like to eat, sleep and fly. I am nice. I am superanimal.»

*   «Photography is possibility to tie up with world more deeply. It is moment of meditation, concentration and healing. Also challenge to go behind and reorganize everyday framed reality. Photography is the way I say «Thank you, God»"

*   «First considerable photos came into existence together flying around with my friend Artis. But first series of photos were inspired by woods.»

*   «I use black and white as well as color means of expression in photography. Each has its own formula to give further message.»

*   «Perfect model/subject/object is weird. Or moment of truth, revelation.»

*   «When I’ll be old, I’ll be definitely wise, weird and different. And my grandchildren will be scared of me »

*   «I would never visualize office working people, pornography and euro-renovation. Death is also not a subject for me.»

*   «When my heart is open I get inspired from everything.»

Yo can find her at:

portfolio

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* Julija Prohorenkova

* Photography

*   «Ambitious, proud, apathetic, feminine, in love, absorbed with art, lazy, dancer, with low self-assertion…»

*   «Many do photography nowadays as its kind of an easiest way to make art, to demonstrate ability to a natural creativity. There is no need in any special skills to press the button. It started exactly with the same idea for me. I have loved art scene since teens and I guess unawares was looking for a way to join the elite. I had started with taking pictures of a friend during our walk talks and then experimenting with them in Corel Photo. Then I discovered Photoshop – a stuff of a lot of fun and a lot of work. I have learned doing photography together with editing it in PS, so it has become an integral part of my work. I took every opportunity to do the photography. But not random one; it was always maped out and staged every bit as an awkward imitation of a high fashion photo shoot. I loved doing it. And in time I realized I just couldn’t imagine myself not doing it. So it turned into the thing…I do…do the best, love the most, and see as mine to do.»

*   I’m not sure if I had done my first serious shot it yet. It is all about progress, there is no first for me and I hope there will be no last; every next one becomes more serious for me than the previous one. I am never satisfied with what I do and it makes me want to push my work to the next level with every shot.»

*   «There is no perfect model for me in general. Just one that is easy to work with. Uncomplaining and creative perhaps… But there is always a perfect model for a particular shot.»

*   She will never visualise porn and senselessness. And paparazzi.

*   She gets inspired by :  Fashion, music, ambience. But inspiration kind of catches me napping now and then apart from everything.

You can find her at:

FLICKR / Deviantart

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