Interview Daniel Augschoell
Photography gives me the opportunity to feel a stronger connection with the world.
Name: Daniel Augschoell
Hometown: I was born in Sterzing. My hometown is Wiesen, a small town next to the Austrian border, but I’m currently living in Venice, Italy. And I’ll probably move to Germany at the end of this year, early next year.
Type of camera:6×7 medium format camera
Website:www.welovehotwaffles.com, www.ahornmagazine.com
What gives you inspiration?
I think that inspiration has something to do with a specific moment, a fragment of time, where everything seems in its right place. The importance of light in those moments is fundamental. Robert Adams once said, “I remember once at the end of a long summer day of picture taking I found myself so exhausted from trying to record the last light over the suburbs that I couldn’t work the camera. When would the light ever be that way again, I thought.” This for me is inspiration.
What are your influences?
I feel a strong connection with photographers and artists that make you want to go out in the world and create something. That can be photographs or poems or whatever. In my case it’s photography. So my influences range from The New Topographics, Robert Adams above all, to Joel Sternfeld, Stephen Shore, Jem Southam, Paul Graham, and I really admire also young photographers like Bryan Schutmaat, Justin James Reed and Mark McKnight, just to name a few.
Why did you choose these photos?
These are photographs from my last series “Celestial Planisphere”. I like them because they give me a feeling of suspension, as if something that we can’t see in the frame could actually happen all of a sudden.
What does photography mean to you?
Photography gives me the opportunity to feel a stronger connection with the world that surrounds me. It’s like you are learning to see in a completely new way, more focused and concentrated. Photography for me means to look.
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