Interview with Roman Kasperski About novel Kasperskis erotic photography I have a few weeks ago an article written . Last week Thursday, the native of Oberhausen photographer was kind enough to give me in a cafe in his hometown of an interview for "Les Petits Plaisirs. We talked about his profession, art, and not least about erotic photography and the way to "Porn-Chic".
Now I want you not the result of long withheld.
Mademoiselle Nocturne: novel, how did you come to photography in general and especially to erotic photography?
Roman Kasperski: to photography in general I have come over to journalism. I wanted to be a journalist and did an internship where I met a photographer and have found it much more interesting then what did the photographer than the scribe. I also had the feeling that I've got a knack for. When I began in the NRZ Oberhausen, which is also directly a photographer were looking for, then I've bought a piece of equipment, and started to. The first images were then in fact directly responsible for the daily newspaper.
to erotic photography, it actually came about that I have photographed my own friend who was traveling in the fetish scene. I have the pictures then at times a "smart" - issued event in Oberhausen, where an editor was from the "headlines", who wanted to directly buy a few pictures. Well, so then I had started.
MN: Is photography profession or vocation for you?
RK: Both. I believe that without passion for photography and creates no enthusiasm for it, do it in the job easy not. It's just a very competitive business, that without feeling called upon as not get along. You must bring it very much zeal.
MN: What motifs in your works in the foreground?
RK: The thing so is this: I tend to photograph not only fetish stuff, I've since also the entire spectrum of architecture, interior design, products - that is all commercial stuff I do. The one needs to survive, may order.
In the erotic photography is already more than two thirds are women. Although I am interested particularly in recent months about to photograph more men. I find that actually very exciting because it is a tilled field, not so. And somehow it is also guilty of the same sex.
MN: What is acceptable your art?
RK: I would say that it is always acceptable. Not specifically my things, but erotic photography in general. In the last 5 years, it has actually become more liberal. I was issued as well as Holland's largest art fair. Also in the right galleries and that was really no problem at all, in the very opposite. I think it really has become absolutely mainstream.
MN: Was there even a Event in which someone has really taken offense to what do you do?
RK: a specific event, not really. There are always people who find one or the other image crass. But more and more that has to do with the people themselves. So there was now no major outcry because of a publication. That's not really.
MN: Where do you get your inspiration?
RK: In the free work - if we start now from the erotic - created in collaboration with the model itself, it is of course also possible to take the model as a screen for ideas. What makes sense if one really has a very specific idea and wants to have fulfilled a role. This is a little like looking at the cast for a movie. If it's a free idea, I find it much more interesting to develop the model itself on the ideas and the personality of the model to take that appeal to the person something. This is really a collaboration. And otherwise it is of course inspired by literature, films, personal experiences.
MN: What makes art in your eyes?
RK: I really like the art of expression watered down already so incredible. I also see me as an artist. I find the craft aspect of photography very important. Through the digital I find the almost washed out a little because of the earlier work in the darkroom, the right increasing the handiwork was much more prominent. Meanwhile, this is indeed more to the computer approached what I associate with do not really trade. The term of art in itself has never really been clarified and defined. The other day a fellow student had once wrote "Art comes from disease," which I found interesting. I think it is art then when it reaches a meta-level. If there is more than the sum of its parts when it comes to what is shown also.
MN: And how exactly is the erotic aspect to Able? What is erotic and what is too explicit, or perhaps the opposite, too subtle?
RK: What is explicitly or subtly, is very much in the eye of the beholder. Let us now Tony Ward for example. He has published previously in the penthouse black and white plugs that were already clearly pornographic. Meanwhile he can to make official exhibitions and has beautiful picture books brought out. There are already several years since the term "Porn Art". The time had Dahmane, a French photographer coined. This was also dependent socially accepted, and that really hardcore things were shown.
The boundaries blur. Pornography has become really socially acceptable, even in the advertising photography has to end something like a "porn-chic". The only taboos that there's really still are, children, dead and animals. Otherwise, we have been through everything.
MN: What must a person have to get in front of your lens?
RK: a certain charisma. Well, I do, ultimately, jobs, and I'm also a commercial photographer, so maybe seen as Newton once said: "A Gun for hire". But when freelance work is really also a certain charisma. I have a preference for a certain model type, but is important to me because of variety. As such, it is also interesting to bring various types. In the end, really is a certain charisma is crucial.
MN: Can you achieve by contract work?
RK: Here and there, yes. It's like that was during his studies consistently advised to implement the requirements of the client 1 to 1. I have since made other experiences. More often I get to hear that I should do it the way I want it, because I am the photographer. Because people trust my eye. As such, it is already possible to bring your own design with one and leaving the personal touch. Where it actually these commissions are, and you will get presented a sketch that can be photographed by.
MN: Is there motifs that photograph would not you? What would they be?
RK: Commercially, I've pretty much done it all, even once made a brochure for Transport lightning is seen such as the innocence determined already lost. Sure, things that are clearly illegal, I would not do. What scrapes on the border, to taboos in itself. Although I would use pedophilia in any form. Otherwise, there are not too much.
MN: What was your most outstanding shooting?
RK: This is difficult to answer. There was already some things have I really liked that also have really developed its own momentum. But take a special shoot out I can not.
MN: How easy is it to the outside to let personal feelings before, when a beautiful model lasciviously lolling in front of the camera?
RK: photography can be incredibly technical. Then one is really more in the photo mode, works in the perfect image and displays something like this completely. Yes, is it really more of these doctors look.
MN: Is it difficult at this day eroticism put across without being explicit?
RK: I even believe that it is important to bring eroticism over, without explicitly. The channel is full, the levels are really at the end, it is shown everything, every body opening is illuminated. As such, it's really interesting to go one step back, to go to a meta-level and smart to walk on. I think that authenticity is what's interesting. And get a story across. This makes the runs a bit slowly explicit dead
MN: So you'd have to say that we live in a sexed society?
RK: We live in a very sexed society, yes.
MN: what projects are you working now and what will follow in the near future?
RK: As I said, I had to make you want more men portraits. From simple portraits to document. I can also imagine quite a few things to make more explicit, but I think it would have been interesting to work on more stories. Stories develop and to implement. Also to work a little bit of film.
MN: Then I thank you very much.
RK: happy.
