Dropped Child, Miami © 2020 Chris Suspect
I was honored when famous Balkan photographer Cristian Crisbasan reached out to me for an interview on the BULB Collective website. BULB is the βalkan Urban League w/o Borders which is comprised of 50 photographers from 6 countries in the Balkans. They publish interviews, books, videos and even run a street photography colloquia called PhoS (Photography and the Street).
Cristian was one of the first people I met when I went to Romania for the VSLO festival in Vama Veche. We hit it off immediately over shots of homemade pálinka while discussing photography and heavy metal music. He is also a well known artistic nude photographer who worked for Playboy Magazine and has had work published by Taschen Books and DAAB. If it wasn’t for meeting Cristian I probably wouldn’t have come up with half the images I created for my new book Old Customs. He led a workshop that year at VSLO on shooting nudes and it was my first time doing so. I learned a lot from him.
Click here to read the interview in which we discuss street versus documentary photography, internet censorship, the state of the world and more!