* Edgars Zvirgzdiņš
* I don’t really refer to anything I do as art. I do visual “stuff” & sometimes step a bit outside of it.
* Recently graduated with a degree in Graphic Design from University of Brighton, attended ISSP in 2007 (a great experience, which I recommend to everyone), unfinished art school & classes as a kid
* Have been “doing visual stuff” since I was a kid. But if there was a moving point in my life, it would have been when I was thirteen, I got a copy of a computer magazine, where someone photoshoped a man in spacesuit onto a generic office stock-photo. After seeing that, I opened the only graphic editor I had– M$ Paint, took photos from computer encyclopedia Encarta and went on a three hour spree to cut out a similar man in a spacesuit. I put him over the only photo of Riga cityscape they had in that application. Despite the hours spent cutting him out pixel by pixel, I fell in love with graphics & computers. That was about 10 years ago.
* Photography somehow runs through my family –€“ from both grandpa’s being avid photographers, to my parents who always took camera around when I was a kid & had a Zenit-E lying around at home. When I was 16 I took the Zenit to a skate-spot and took some pictures, somehow it developed from there, trying to capture moments, afterwards moving away from single-shot’s to series. Due to this, in last couple years, I have moved away from everyday photography and developed a need for brief/project based approach, where concept takes over the direction of photography.
* For inspiration I think. Think like a mad man, and then think again. Sleeping on cold pillows helps refining those thoughts. Regarding perfect subjects and models, I think one should realise that most of the things in life are imperfect, therefore spending endless hours working on perfection might be counter-productive. At the same time there is a little perfectionist in me, with which I have to fight every day, to remain productive. I think it’s harder to fight off distractions around ourselves, than to find inspiration, besides inspiration and talent is secondary to doing “stuff”. Doing “stuff” is above most of other stuff (I might write a book on this, sometime soon).
* Check out rest of the stuff on my site & stay true to your “stuff”!

Album which I have been listening to for last couple of months is Jazz Cafe by brilliant estonian producer Alinah Sipps, who has released it for free on the internet (sharing IS caring) check it out at link

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