Bagrad Badalian is a 23 year old photographer and graphic designer living in Brussels, Belgium. A photographer and a frequent traveller, Bagrad has already carved a niche for himself for his seemingly different images, which are tailor-made to adorn exhibits. He is into experimental photography and tries to bring in new elements through his pictures. Having evolved in an artistic environment since his childhood, as both of his parents were painters, he has inherited an undeniable artistic gift. 

Bagrad’s photography resembles painting, a great concern for detail and a perfect sense of composition. His mastery of the photographic techniques is conspicuous and his art is indescribable, it is lived, it is felt. It opens a path to our interrogations, our dreams and nightmares, it shatters our beliefs, stimulates our desires. 

Around 2008 I bought a camera and started shooting all kinds of things. I then realized that I liked working in a studio, an empty canvas where silence is the setting by default.

What would you call your genre? Most of your pictures don't fit in any particular type yet are compelling.

Expressionism, Experimental Photography, Light Painting. I don't like the idea of having a genre, copying myself would be worse than copying others so I try to reinvent my styles most of the time.

“I don't like the idea of having a genre, copying myself would be worse than copying others so I try to reinvent my styles most of the time.”

What is experimental photography and what made to choose this different genre?

In my opinion, experimental photography is what stands in the middle of Painting and Sculpture. It is to sculpt a flat image. In its early days, photography was a scientific and experimental tool. I want to keep things that way. I want to find ways to look at reality from unusual angles, and then express myself through them.

Angelica Glass is not your typical wedding photographer nor is she a photography studio in herself. She’s definitely a photographer though who takes really fantastic images of a wedding. From portraits, engagements, to the nuptials and the thrill of reception, her images are a wonderful tribute to the bride and groom. She was exposed to photography at the early age of 13. But her venture into a professional photography was a happy accident. The hired photographer to a wedding she was a guest as couldn’t make it and she saved the day by shooting the entire wedding by herself. It was the defining moment in her life and since then she has been photographing incredibly sexy, frighteningly real and hysterically awkward images of weddings. She has recently been credited by American Photo Magazine as one of the top 10 Wedding Photographers of 2012.

It seems your venture into photography was a happy accident. Tell us all about it and what has happened since the day you finally found the calling as a photographer.

I have been photographing since I was 13 and published in several rock music magazines by 14. While going to college, I got a job at a wedding photography studio in Long Island creating wedding albums and ordering prints. My friends ended up booking the studio and since I was a guest, I decided to bring along some film. The hired photographer ended up getting lost for the ceremony so I shot the entire thing by myself. After the studio saw the photos, I started shooting 25-40 weddings a year as a photojournalist. Since then I've photographed some amazing couples and visited gorgeous places. I don't think that I will be doing weddings forever. I hope to explore other genres of photography in the near future.

Qui Tan Le is an award-winning Semi-Professional Photographer, Web Designer, living in Anaheim, Southern California USA. His interests include landscape, seascape, abstract, nature and digital photography. He is a member of Photographic Society of America, S4C, and PSCVN. He is a successful engineer by profession with many patents in semiconductor processing to his name and still loves to capture the world in his lens like he did when he first held the camera at the age of 10.

Please introduce yourself to us and our readers and tell us how and when did you get interested in photography?

I was born in 1960 southern of Vietnam, love to take picture since I was 10 years old, started with a disposable camera to capture anything I saw, learned very first photography lesson from a book from a local library, then joined local photography club, took a correspondence professional photography course at New York Institute Of Photography in 1994 and continue to present as a self taught photographer.

Thanks photography and technology, both enable me to convey my dreams and thoughts into art.

Photographer Jill Wachter has shot for international clients including L’Oréal, W Hotels, Shiseido, Target, HBO, Oh! Oxygen, Condé Nast, Sony Music and has photographed celebrities Jessica Simpson, Kevin Bacon, Adam Levine of Maroon 5 and supermodel Niki Taylor. Additionally her work has appeared in Elle Italia, Vanity Fair, In Style, Glamour and Zink magazines. She studied at the prestigious New house School of Communications at Syracuse University and has been living and working in Manhattan for 24 years doing editorial fashion, beauty and celebrity portraits for the advertising, entertainment and magazine worlds.

How did you develop your passion for fashion photography and when did this realization happen?

My father was an avid hobbyist photographer and took a lot of photos of us as kids. So, I got my first camera at age 8 and discovered my excitement for it. At 16, I was on a weekend trip in the Pocono mountains with a friend who had a great body and liked posing in her bikini and at that moment I absolutely knew this was my destiny.