PLATFORM Magazine Issue 04: 'Portrait of a Boy'

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Olya OleinicMartyn Hyde

Daria Svertilova Anna Kharina

John Edmonds Mario Leko

Jade Danielle SmithJason Koxvold

Margarita SenkovaAlexander Veledzimovich

Sydney CunninghamEmma Gibney

Issue 04:Portrait of a Boy

Welcome to Issue 04 of PLATFORM Magazine: ‘Portrait of a Boy’.

We began with the theme of ‘Portrait of a Girl,’ for Issue 01, and so I thought it was only fair to give the guys a turn at being represented, hence this month’s theme.

As always, we’ve had an influx of submissions from all around the world, from photographers of all ages, at all stages. It’s a great thing, seeing how one art medium, in a

way, joins all these people together - how such (presumably) different people share a passion for the same thing and express it in such differing ways. We feel very grateful, here at

PLATFORM, that we get the opportunity to bring all these photographers together and share them with you lot!

It really is a pleasure...

Happy looking.The PLATFORM Team

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Martyn Hyde52, From Manchester, lives in Kilmore Quay, County Wexford, Ireland

Photography is...one of the greatest gifts of the 20th century one picture can stop you in your tracks or you pass something or one that makes you feel you have to capture this moment

[email protected]://www.flickr.com/photos/36161769@N05/

Daria Svertilova 17, Ukraine, Odessa

Photography is...Photography is an exchange of energy. In my opinion, whatever or whoever you shoot you always put your energy into a shot. I imagine this process like special

waves pass through your camera to an object which you are taking picture of. When you take a portrait, the person who you are shooting radiates energy too. And the crossing of

yours and person’s energetic waves are always seen in ready photo, especially in the film one. That’s why as I mentioned earlier I enjoy shooting portraits most of all. It’s like a mutual

love: you give your energy to the person and see how he changes, opens and sends his waves during the shooting. And there is the most trustful moment in photography. It isn’t

preparing for a shooting or post-production of the photo, this moment is a contact between you and model while shutter clicks.

[email protected] http://svertilova.tumblr.com/

Anna Kharina24, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Photography is...a wordless poem.

[email protected] http://www.flickr.com/photos/anna_kharina/

https://www.facebook.com/anna.a.kharina

I began to shoot around eight years ago. Most of the time, I was shooting portraits. First I wanted to fix the hidden beauty of the people, but after some years I realized that I am more interested in transferring my own feelings, senses and ideas through the pictures I make. It includes beauty but now it’s more a medium for me than a final goal.

Alexander Veledzimovich29, from Belarus, lives in Vitebsk

Photography is...an attempt to catch something that you can understand only when you see the photo.

[email protected]://cargocollective.com/veledzimovich/

http://flickr.com/photos/veledz

John Edmonds24, Washington, D.C.

Photography is...about seeing as much as it is about feeling and perception.

[email protected] www.johnedmondsphoto.com

www.johnedmonds.tumlr.com ; www.johnedmonds.blogspot.com

Olya Oleinic21, from Chisinau, Moldova, lives in London/Amsterdam

Photography is...a tool of the personal expression

[email protected]

Mario Leko31, Split, Croatia

Photography is...the way I try to see what’s behind someone’s eyes. My effort to come closer and to listen all those things we usually don’t say out loud. There’s an endless sea of silence

and photography is one of my ways of keeping a record of it.

[email protected] http://www.flickr.com/photos/mariol/

Jade Danielle Smith21, from Watford, England, lives in Southampton but moving to London and one day New

York (dreaming)

Photography is...The.Love.Of.My.Life

[email protected] www.jadedaniellesmith.com

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jade-Danielle-Smith-Photography/489073417807481https://twitter.com/JadeSm1th

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jadedaniellesmith/

I’ve just completed my degree at Southampton Solent University! Fantastic course and some amazing memories I’ve made there! Now onto my next chapter to pursue a life time dedicated to what I’m passionate about! I’ve got to save up for equipment first but my end goal is to have travelled, have happiness and love! (Hippy) And of course be able to live from taking photographs, exhibiting, big productions, advertising and fashion editorials!

Jason Koxvold35, born in Belgium. Grew up near London and lives in Brooklyn, NY

Photography is...more powerful than you think.

[email protected]

twitter.com/jkoxvold

I come from a culturally diverse background; half Norwegian, half Italian. I’ve always been from somewhere else, and being from somewhere else gives you a little bit of a different perspective.

Margarita Senkova23, Belarus, Minsk

Photography is...the best thing for me to overcome my timidness, when I take a camera in my hands I finally feel i'm a person, an individual. When I look through the lens I'm 100 %

concentrated, nothing exists except me and my vision. Photography is an extraordinary window which gives us a glance at another world, we''ll never enter it or see it fully but at

least we can try.

[email protected]://www.flickr.com/photos/senkova_m/

http://girls-and-bones.tumblr.com/

Sydney Natasha Cunningham22, From London (West London, just off Portobello Road), soon to return to Ladbroke

Grove

Photography is...a way of exploring, understanding and expressing. It is one’s interpretation of the world that surrounds them. It is a beautiful way of capturing a transient moment and

having the ability to keep a fraction of that moment forever.

[email protected] www.sydneycunningham.com

www.sydneycunningham.tumblr.com

Emma Gibney24, London

Photography is...A reminder of something that happened when you weren’t looking.

[email protected]://emmagibney.4ormat.com/www.emma-gibney.blogpsot.com

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