{"id":41333,"date":"2015-06-22T15:20:02","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T13:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hipstography.com\/?p=41333"},"modified":"2015-06-22T15:20:02","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T13:20:02","slug":"the-elusive-universal-an-interview-with-q-sakamaki-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hipstography.com\/en\/hipstographers-2\/the-elusive-universal-an-interview-with-q-sakamaki-2.html","title":{"rendered":"The Elusive Universal: An Interview with Q. Sakamaki"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Q-Sakamaki-portraits\"Q. Sakamaki\u00a0is a Japanese born, New York based documentary photographer and visual artist represented by Redux Pictures. He has covered and captured stories from Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, Kosovo, Haiti, Liberia, Sri Lanka, Brazil, Turkey, Georgia, Sudan, The Suicide Forest of Japan, Fukushima, Tibet, and more. He is also very inspiring. By Matthew Wylie<\/h4>\n

Matthew: You have been known to use the Hipstamatic app for a while now, both in colour and black and white. As time has passed, and most likely change\/progress in your own photographic journey as an artist and photojournalist has occurred, what keeps you coming back to this app?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Q. Sakamaki: Fist of all, regarding the change\/progress, the view and mind of the photographer is the most important. Then, the equipment or app comes into play. And in that case, especially with the use of the iPhone, I love the Hipstamatic app.<\/p>\n

Matthew: And what determines when you choose to shoot with another, perhaps more \"professional\" camera?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Q. Sakamaki: For the assignments or so, I mostly use the professional DSLR cameras. Yet for my own projects, I often choose different types of cameras -- film (such as panorama camera, 4 X 5, Holga, etc.) to the iPhone camera , depending on the type of the project, as well as my feelings on and for the subjects.<\/p>\n\n\t\t