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Camera Roll with Amandine Gay

Camera Roll with Amandine Gay

When filmmaker Amandine Gay is the creative force behind Speak Up, a documentary about Black Francophone women, and A Story of One’s Own, a documentary about transracial and transnational adoption. She’s also a frequent speaker on filmmaking, feminism, and adoption, and she has her own production company. She might spot you when she’s taking a well-deserved break people-watching in Montreal’s cafés. We spoke to Amandine about developing an Afro-feminist aesthetic, sleeping in on the weekends, and getting a hysterectomy.

FilmmakerGuest UserFebruary 1, 2024Camera Roll, Montreal, Saint-DenisComment

Camera Roll with Jenn Park

Camera Roll with Jenn Park

We spoke with designer and archivist Jenn Park about her early love for Marc Jacobs/Juergen Teller ads, her recent success tracking down a lost documentary after a 15-year search, and how she treats her phone as a hard drive.

Designer, ArchivistGuest UserOctober 24, 2023Camera Roll, NYC Comments

Camera Roll with Pia Riverola

Camera Roll with Pia Riverola

We spoke with photographer Pia Riverola about her tenuous relationship with her iPhone, her favorite newsletter, a tradition of making phone calls with no purpose from her childhood in Barcelona, and more.

PhotographerGuest UserSeptember 26, 2023California, Camera Roll, LAComment

Camera Roll with Ethaney Lee

Camera Roll with Ethaney Lee

Ethaney Lee is a vibrant, compelling content creator on Instagram, where as @tenderherbs, she cooks and shares meals that look as beautiful as they seem delicious. We spoke to Ethaney about her procrastination problems, why she doesn’t take food pics on dates, her everlasting devotion to tumblr, and much more.

ChefGuest UserJuly 18, 2023California, Bay Area, Camera RollComment

Camera Roll with Katie Merchant

Camera Roll with Katie Merchant

Katie Merchant’s creative eye is applied to the photography she shares on her prolific Instagram account, @thankyou_ok, but also to her work as a creative director and stylist for brands such as Glossier, Babaà and Marimekko that share her penchant for nostalgia filtered through a lens of romance that recalls the films of Jacques Demy or Éric Rohmer. Here, we speak to Katie about capturing moments of serendipitous beauty on an iPhone, the opposite of buyer’s remorse (regret for a purchase unmade), and women she’s inspired by, from Miss Piggy to Martha Stewart.

PhotographerGuest UserApril 25, 2023Camera Roll, Toronto, canadaComment

Camera Roll with Tala Ashe

Camera Roll with Tala Ashe

In a special edition of our Camera Roll series — where we glimpse into the current moment through an in-depth look at our interviewee’s phones — we speak to Iranian-American actor Tala Ashe about the political situation in her native country of Iran and how she captures the things that matter to her right now.

ActorClaire BrodkaOctober 25, 2022Camera Roll, NYCComment

Camera Roll with Andrekza

Camera Roll with Andrekza

Musician Andrekza spends most of her days looking at a screen. The self-declared workaholic doesn’t just use her phone to keep track of song ideas or mark architectural details in the cities she visits. She also runs multiple side gigs from the handheld device — including a fashion venture and successful production company. When it comes to her main creative endeavour, however, Andrekza prefers the quiet surroundings of her studio — or, as she calls it, her “house of inspiration and creation”. There, she can usually be found in the company of her pet bunny Benni. A closer look at the artist’s creative process reveals a longing for emotional connection and presence that explains her prioritisation of the quiet moments. Here, she talks to us about how she keeps track of memories, finding inspiration in other disciplines, and why it’s good to take selfies when you’re sad.

MusicianClemence PolesJuly 5, 2022Camera Roll, LAComment

Camera Roll with Marina Sulmona

Camera Roll with Marina Sulmona

Between leisure time spent flitting around her Clinton Hill neighborhood and beyond, Marina Sulmona takes on the role of working closely with artists to help bring their visions to life, in fully realized form — be it here, as passerby's treasured editor, or in the work she does as a producer and artist manager. Look carefully into her own creative practices and writing, and you'll notice how the act of joining imagery with words lies at heart. Together, her knack for working with artists and her own keen eye induce the multidisciplinary work she's done here — working with writers, taking stock of our audience's interests, and overseeing it all — and for other clients. Marina grants access into the intricate corners of her life in the conversation ahead, speaking about her obsessiveness, when she makes time to write, and saving movie still screenshots.

Editor, ProducerClemence PolesMay 30, 2022Camera Roll, NYCComment

Camera Roll with Niki Kohandel

Camera Roll with Niki Kohandel

A third-year student studying art and film in London, Niki Kohandel can routinely be found across the UCL campus editing films, making prints, or passing the time outside with friends.

Filmmaker, StudentClemence PolesFebruary 27, 2022Camera Roll, LondonComment

Camera Roll with Claire Brodka

Camera Roll with Claire Brodka

German-born publicist Claire Brodka made her way to NYC to work with the iconic art book publisher, TASCHEN.

Publicist, Writer, EditorClemence PolesNovember 28, 2021Camera Roll, NYCComment

Camera Roll with Eileen Winslow

Camera Roll with Eileen Winslow

Along with her husband BJ, Eileen Winslow has built a life manufacturing specialty props that run the gamut from zombie bodices to pig heads to eyeballs and tongues.

Prop Shop Owner, EntrepreneurClemence PolesOctober 31, 2021Camera Roll, MadisonComment

Camera Roll with Anne Gomez Rubin

Camera Roll with Anne Gomez Rubin

Anne Gomez Rubin is a lifelong teacher who—for the first time in her career—is starting a role in school administration. She speaks to us about how exciting it is to watch young people learn and grow, her newfound obsession with perfume, and why her forties are her best decade yet.

Teacher, School AdministratorClemence PolesAugust 22, 2021Camera Roll, Palo AltoComment

Camera Roll with Kerrilynn Pamer

Camera Roll with Kerrilynn Pamer

Kerrilynn Pamer invites us to scroll through images of her alongside her husband and pups settling into their new lives in California. The natural beauty behind CAP Beauty also speaks with us about her past in New York, how a Celiac diagnosis kickstarted her career in clean beauty, and what writing means to her.

EntrepreneurClemence PolesAugust 8, 2021Camera Roll, LAComment

Camera Roll with Vere Van Gool

Camera Roll with Vere Van Gool

Vere van Gool is an NYC and Paris based curator and writer who has curated for the likes of the New Museum, Anthology Film Archives, and the Architectural Association. She talks to us about how her training in architecture has poised her to see art and architecture as inseparable, how where you live shapes you, and how the pandemic has given her a newfound sense of time and space to think.

CuratorClemence PolesJanuary 10, 2021Camera Roll, Paris Comment

Camera Roll with Zoe Cohen

If you stop into Poppy’s for a morning coffee, you’ll likely catch Zoe Cohen there doing the same before heading home to work. Along with her boyfriend Levi, Cohen runs Wiggle Room — a furniture studio the couple founded after having a hard time finding an ideal coffee table. So now, they make wiggly, colorful tables together. As day turns to evening, you might pass Zoe by while walking around Soho and the Lower East Side or dining at The Odeon, Roman’s, or The Long Island Bar (which, contrary to what you may suspect, is not on Long Island). Read on as Zoe recounts the ups and downs of throwing herself into work, her recent month-long trip to Italy, and her newfound passion for chili crisp.

Entrepreneur, Creative Brand Strategist, Furniture DesignerClemence PolesJanuary 1, 2021Camera Roll, NYCComment

Camera Roll with Annika Hansteen-Izora

Camera Roll with Annika Hansteen-Izora

This week we feature Annika Hansteen-Izora, queer artist, poet and designer, creative director of @ethelsclub, @formnoform, @somewhere__good and @black.feast. We talk with Annika about exploration, storytelling, and how living ‘many lives’ in a day is actually possible.

Artist, Poet, DesignerClemence PolesNovember 14, 2020Camera Roll, NYCComment

Camera Roll with Dania Shihab

Camera Roll with Dania Shihab

Camera roll is a new interview series where we get a glance into the current moment via the mundane and the ordinary; the life lived in this moment of a global pandemic. This week we are featuring Dania Shihab, a first-generation Iraqi immigrant doctor turned record label owner. During times in which the word ‘medical emergency’ is in our daily news, talking to Dania is a glimpse of light in dark times. Words create sounds which inhabit our (temporary) isolated lives.

DoctorClemence PolesNovember 2, 2020Camera Roll, BarcelonaComment

Camera Roll with Natassia Dreams

Camera Roll with Natassia Dreams

Camera roll is a new interview series where we glimpse into the current moment via the mundane and the ordinary; the life lived in this moment of a global pandemic. This week we are featuring Natassia Dreams, a Californian transgender pornstar based in New York City, winner of the TEA Lifetime Achievement Award as well three-time nominee of the XBIZ Awards.

PornstarClemence PolesOctober 26, 2020Camera Roll, NYCComment

Camera Roll with Hannah La Follette Ryan

Camera Roll with Hannah La Follette Ryan

Photographer Hannah La Follette Ryan spends almost her whole working day on the subway. Not (just) because she enjoys the ride, but because her Instagram project @subwayhands essentially makes the entirety of NYC’s underground transit system her office. We speak to her about untethering from social media to pursue more analog creative endeavors, photography as an external memory drive, and why a recent fashion find helps her feel close to her late grandmother.

PhotographerClaire BrodkaOctober 14, 2020Camera Roll, NYC, Crown HeightsComment

Camera Roll with Tara Thomas

Camera Roll with Tara Thomas

This week we are featuring Tara Thomas, the chef behind Che at Sincerely Tommy Eat & Stay. Driving a community-based business model she is constantly traveling for inspiration and exploring to pursue depth. Tara seeks to combat social, environmental, and health issues with her culinary art in order to catalyze a change in the perspective of individuals.

ChefClemence PolesAugust 3, 2020Camera Roll, BushwickComment