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electrospray — Tue, 13 May 2008 19:01:20 +0000

Originally uploaded by Derek Wood Photography.

fake can be as good

electrospray — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:11:11 +0000

Opus11 alexis milant
envoyé par gameart

hendy 5-0 LA high

electrospray — Mon, 12 May 2008 20:01:31 +0000

Hendy 5-0 LA high

Originally uploaded by sheenographs..

Hendy standing up on a 5-0 at LA high school. These are a lot steeper then I had anticipated. Nikon D2H @ 50mm

photographer profile #3: Alexandre Pires

electrospray — Sat, 10 May 2008 11:04:46 +0000

Alexandre Pires, Paris, France

1- Who are you?
Hey, I’m 19, living in Paris. I study law and economy.

2- Where are you right now?
Right now I’m in my flat waiting for the guy from chronopost to come. And I’m getting mad, cause I’m waiting for a very long time, and I’ll even have to pay some fees! Never use chronopost!

3- What’s your current camera set up?
Right now I’m making the switch from digital to film. So I used to shoot with a Nikon d70, 50 f1.8. A borrowed peleng 8mm from you (thanks again). But I had to sell this (except the peleng!) to get my new set up. This will be, Hasselblad 500CM and 150mm f4 for medium format, and a pentax p30 and a 50mm for 35mm. For lightning, my set up is kind of basic, one sb24, one vivi 285, and Quantum for triggering.

Akim Cherif - Nollie flip

Originally uploaded by Alexandre Pires (Chronopost SUCKS).

4- What’s your current skateboard set up?
Some 8’ deck, thunder trucks, I think the wheels are from hoon, and that’s it

5- What inspires you?
Day to day, I’ve no particular inspiration, I take photos when I feel like it.

6- Who inspires you?
Don’t know exactly, there are a lot of good photographers around..
I could have listed some long list of photographers, but in fact, i’ve no particular photography education, I just shoot things the way I like with some rules that I like to respect and well, I surely shoot things in the same way as someone already did, but I don’t realise that while I’m taking a photo..
In skate photography, there are Sem Rubio, Gaberman, Scott Pomier, Bertrand Trichet, Eric Antoine, Benjamin Debert, lots of them are really really good…
Ah and Fred Mortagne is one of the best around.

Idris Jani - back smith

Originally uploaded by Alexandre Pires (Chronopost SUCKS).

7- What was the last music track you listened to?
The very very last track was Brett Dennen –Desert Sunrise.

8- What was the last cool stuff you have seen on the web ?
I like those portraits here http://olivier.roller.free.fr/ that guy is amazing. Check his archives! Lots of good stuffs.
And I check this site http://piar.blogspot.com/ very often and it always surprises me.

9- Where can we see your work?
I got some photos in French skate mags. But most of my photos can be seen here : www.flickr.com/photos/alexbrpires

Julien - kickflip in

Originally uploaded by Alexandre Pires (Chronopost SUCKS).

10- Anything you would like to add?
Thanks PY for this interview and for blogging my photos from time to time.Thanks a lot to Bernard Jaillet for the time spent on msn teaching me stuffs. People at sk8.net. Tura at soma. Seb at sugar. Mark at Slap.
And I’d like to thank everyone I shooted with so far!

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All pictures copyright Alexandre Pires