Interview Roddy Laroche Samsonoff
« Memorie doesn’t film, it takes pictures ». Milan Kundera.
Name: Roddy Laroche Samsonoff
Hometown: Paris, France
Style of photography: No style. Some people say fotopovera/Lo-fi photography
Type of camera(s): Mobile phone : Sony Ericsson K610i ; iPhone 3G
Website:www.roddylarochesamsonoff.fr
What gives you inspiration?
Desires, frustration, love, people, light, spirituality, a face, sound of words, empty spaces, dream-related state, a smell, music (folk, rock, pop, electronica, spoken words).
What are your influences?
Difficult to say. My mind’s memory. Art Brut, Baroque Art, Modern Art, Contemporary Art, New Hollywood, Nouvelle Vague, Italian Neoreolism, naturalism.
Photographs : Eggleston, Gursky, Depardon, Michael Ackerman, Nicolas Bouvier, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Miroslav Tichy, Capa, Li Wei, José Ramon Bas, Bernard Plossu, Jeff Brouws, Sarah Moon, Laurence Leblanc, Jeffrey Silverthorne, Weegee…
Movie’s directors : Tarkovski, David Lynch, Werner Herzog, Truffaut, Varda, Godard, Gus Van Sant, J. & E. Coen, Bunuel, Wes Anderson, Kusturica, Jarmush, Fellini, Melville, Peckinpah, D. & B. Podalydès…
Some painters like Rothko, Soulages, Miro, Hopper, Pollock, Klimt, Schiele, Basquiat…
Drawers like Burns, Sfar, Trondheim, Peters…
Why did you choose these photos?
Representative of my work.
What does photography mean to you?
« Memorie doesn’t film, it takes pictures ». Milan Kundera.
Prolong time, create émotions, finding memories filtered by memories and time, a meditation space, finding a passway trough reality and imaginations.
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April 24th, 2010 at 5:15 pm
I think these are fantastic. I looked at the pictures before I read what they were taken with, and was blown away when I saw they were done with a phone. They’re all beautiful.