Jon-Paul Rodriguez.
Artist.
Hometown: New York
Years in NYC: Since day one
Likes: Art, Coffee, Comics, Bicycles, Gadgets, Electronics, good music and good friends.
Dislikes: Back Pain, Assholes
Cameras:Panasonic L1, Polaroid SX-70, Lomo LC-A+, Yashica Electro GTN.
Website: www.jonpaulrodriguez.com
Email: jp@photodrifting.com
Niki Hall.
Stylist.
Hometown: Born in Denver, CO
Years in NYC: Residing in NYC for 7 years now.
Occupation: Wardrobe Stylist/Costume Designer
Interests/aspiration: Interested in Fashion, Music, Film, Textiles, Jewelry Design, and Photography
I aspire to explore creative ways of self-expression.
Favorite Photographer(s): Sarah Moon's fashion portraits from the '20s and '30s. The soft focus of them almost make them appear to be stills from a dream sequence.
Favorite Web Destination: Boudicca's website www.platform13.com because it's constantly changing, there's hundreds of different pages to explore within it, each one unfolds something more interesting and captivating the previous one.
Website: www.nikihall.com
Email: nh@photodrifting.com
Matthew Gilli.
Artist.
Hometown: Ramsey, NJ
Years in NYC: 5
Occupation: Artist
Interests: Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, Eating, Design, Climbing, Nature, Biking, English Food.
Aspirations: I want to make things for the rest of my life. I think It would be great for people to have the opportunity to see my work worldwide I want a lot of land and a lot of dogs outside NYC. I hope to forever surround myself with people who create inspiring work.
Likes: English breakfast, Architecture, having my camera, Tea, old and used things, living things, dead things, I like motivated people. the fall, the gunks, blazing through time square and Central Park.
Dislikes: When I am lazy, gin, having to take the subway, cabs. forgetting things, arrogance. I hate not working.
Website: www.matthewgilli.com
Email: mg@photodrifting.com
Sergio Padilla.
Film.
Hometown: East Harlem, New York
Years in NYC: My Entire Life
Occupation/ Interest/aspiration: Music Video Director and Editor
Likes: Traveling, Gritty Locations, A Good Book, and Chicken Pad Thai
Dislikes: Greedy People, Boston, and Waiting rooms
Fun Fact: I have had a total of 23 stitches on both my hands, one of the incidents was due to photography.
Website: www.sergp.com
Email: sp@photodrifting.com
Foster Zeh.
Photographer.
Hometown: Brooklyn.
Years in NYC: All of thee above.
Sign: Straight Virgo Born.
Origins: Straight ILLER.
Favorite Photographer: ROBERTO CAPPA I also like to peep and BOOGIES work...
Last words: YO BRO...
Contact: fz@photodrifting.com
Lee Taylor.
Stylist.
Hometown: London
Years in NYC: 8
Occupation: Sales, styling
Interests: Everything
Aspirations: To move forward
Likes: Going to bed early
Dislikes: Getting up late
Blog: http://www.ourlifeincommon.blogspot.com/
Contact: lt@photodrifting.com
Melanie Teppich.
Graphic Designer.
Hometown: the former fish market
Years in nyc: 22
Likes: scarves, jock jams, cleo, margaret kilgallen &shiny gold objects
Dislikes: slow walkers & puka shell necklaces
Website: www.melanieteppich.com
Contact: mt@photodrifting.com
David Gonzalez.
Artist / Student.
Hometown: New Rochelle, NY
Years in NYC: 3+ years
Likes: girls with peach fuzz, losing track of time, open fields, warm feelings
Dislikes: shit you don't need, regrets
Camera: Olympus Stylus Epic 35mm, Holga 120 CFN, Canon G10
Website: http://www.flickr.com/photos/d_gonzalez/
Contact: dg@photodrifting.com
Laura Kuhn.
Student.
Hometown: Nashville, TN
Years in NYC: 1
Likes: dancing, french fries, The New York Times, baguette, coffee, sweaters, morning, the city
Dislikes: the man
Contact: lk@photodrifting.com
Tyler J. Clemens.
Marine Biologist.
Hometown: Fenwick, Canada
Years in NYC: tres
Interests/ Aspirations: Teal, coffee, striped socks, high diving and cycling.
Dislikes: Jp's face
Contact: tc@photodrifting.com
David Flinn.
Artist.
Hometown: NEW YORK CITY
Years in NYC: Born and raised apart form seasonal vacations across the pond
Interest/ Aspiration: Artist
Likes: Bones, Feathers,Norwegian Black Metal, Cooking, Taxidermy.
Dislikes: People
Contact: df@photodrifting.com
Gabriela Alva.
Visual Artist.
Hometown: Mexico, Distrito Federal
Years in nyc: 3
Interests/ aspirations: to be a food travel expert / manufacturing my own camera in the same way I put a radio together in high school
Likes: architectural scale models, hardware stores, ink in all its densities.
Dislikes: long acronyms and my height fright.
Websites: www.leairbag.com
www.victorosborne.com/eyelevel.html
www.cal-mayor.com
Contact: ga@photodrifting.com
Rachel Luyster.
Artist.
Hometown: Midland Park, NJ
Years in NYC: 4
Likes: vignetted photography, scarves, coffee, music, when summer fades into fall, obnoxiously large bags, making inappropriate faces
Dislikes: elevators & ugg boots
Contact: rl@photodrifting.com
Christian Jimenez.
Music Marketing & Promotion.
Hometown: NYC
Years in NYC: born & raised
Likes: dog walking, finding great vegetarian restaurants, Swedish journalists
Dislike: Irony
Website: www.flickr.com/photos/christianjimenez/
Email: cj@photodrifting.com
Ardalan Jalayer.
Photographer.
Hometown: New York, NY
Years in nyc: 23 years in NYC, born in Tehran, Iran
Likes: Photography, Guitar, Guitar-Hero, Math, Math-Art, Camping, Kayaking, Walking, Skating, Biking, Probability, Big monitors, Justice, email for full list...
Dislikes: fascists, colds
Camera: Ricoh GX100
Site:http://www.flickr.com/photos/ardalanj/sets/7215760519034958
Email: aj@photodrifting.com
Rufus Mangrove.
Lawyer.
Hometown: Brooklyn
Years in nyc: 10
Likes: people watching, attitude, subways and trains
Dislikes: schedules
Camera: Canon 400D, Canon G10, Sony P93
Blog: http://everydayaperture.wordpress.com
Email: rm@photodrifting.com
Daniel Hernandez.
Journalist.
hometown: Aurora, Colorado
Years in nyc: 5
Likes: Covert museum photography, fiction about eccentric writers, film burn on a landscape, newsstands, strong coffee, cigarettes and chess.
Dislikes: Forgetting to turn off the flash.
Website: www.thewateriswarm.com
Email: dh@photodrifting.com
Jonathan Weiskopf.
Student.
Hometown: East Williston, NY & Manhattan, NYC
Years in nyc: 1978-1997 & 2004-present
Interests: photographing strangers at close range with long lenses, oysters & tequila, argyle socks, Mark Rothko, beautiful women in giant sunglasses...
Cameras: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi, Canon EOS 5d
Artworks that changed my life: Jessica Dimmock's "The Ninth Floor", The Beatles' White Album, Robert Frank's "The Americans", Zhang Huan's "To Add One Meter To An Anonymous Mountain", and several thousand others...
Quote: "No one ever really dies. Do you believe that? Well, if not, for you, its almost over now, its almost over now." -N.E.R.D.
Website: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jsdouble/
Email: jw@photodrifting.com
Garrett Klein.
Artist.
Hometown: Long Island
Years in nyc: Four
Interests: Art, Printmaking, Photography, Music.
Aspirations: I would love to make artwork for the rest of my life. And at some point live in a log cabin upstate.
Likes: Positive thinking, laying low in Brooklyn, making stuff,coffee, tea, red wine, beer, random nights, random days, slip on shoes, scarves, bike riding..especially over bridges at night...a beautiful way to see the city.
Dislikes: bad drivers, mean people.
Website: http://www.gkleinart.com
Email: gk@photodrifting.com
Camilo Vanegas.
Visual Artist / 3D Animator.
Hometown: Bogota, Colombia
Years in nyc: 2
Likes: Pomegranates, Jazz, Animation, korean food and The French New Wave movies.
Dislikes: People who always complain and people who never complain.
Cameras: Fujifilm FinePix S9000, Canon EOS XSi
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/camilovanegas
Website: http://www.camilovanegas.com
Email: cv@photodrifting.com
Adam Santiago.
Digital Products Coordinator
Hometown: NYC
Years in nyc: Since birth, though currently jumping back and forth over the Hudson.
Likes: Music, Friends, Photography, Jokes, Games, Pop Culture, Sleeping, Pancakes, and Fun, Open-Minded People.
Dislikes: Anything Unlikable.
Cameras: Nikon FE2 (Film has a hold on me), and a Nikon D40 (Gathering some dust thanks to the FE2).
Website: http://www.flickr.com/photos/adventureseason
Email: as@photodrifting.com
Bernadette Torres.
Graphic Designer/Art Entrepreneur
Hometown: Los Angeles
Years in nyc: Give or take 2.5 years since September 2006
Likes:Finding new music, laughing, talking to strangers, adventures, ideas, experimental cooking, sewing, figure drawing, driving fast in fast cars, and making up stories.
Dislikes: Crowds
Cameras: Holga 120FN, Nikon F3, and a Nikon Coolpix S10
Website: http://art2120.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/raggedann
Email: bt@photodrifting.com
Gary Thom.
Photographer / Senior Software Engineer.
Hometown: Aberdeen, Scotland
Years in nyc: 11 and a couple of months
Likes: In no real order, photography, programming, food, cars, travel, reading, movies (when I get the time).
Dislikes: Wasting time sleeping, hangovers, inconsiderate or incompetant drivers.
Cameras: Nikon D700, Nikon D70s
Website: http://www.afulki.com - main site, work related stuff goes here, blog style.
http://www.afulki.com/pixelpost - just started this, trying hard to post a daily image.
http://flickr.com/photos/afulki - everything else.
http://www.zakias-recipes.com - my wife Zakia's site, Moroccan food blog, I do the pictures.
Email: gt@photodrifting.com
Ananda Lima.
Photographer.
Hometown: Brasilia, Brazil
Years in nyc: Moved to NYC in August 2008.
Likes: Photography, New York City, the subway, languages, food, web culture and community development, weird/ unusual people and situations, Caetano Veloso, Chico Buarque, Os Mutantes.
Dislikes: supermarkets at rush hour, waiting.
Interests/Aspiration: to always continue growing as a photographer... to write something on Brazilian Portuguese pronouns this year.
Favorite Photographer(s): right now Harry Callahan... also really like Henri Cartier-Bresson, Garry Winogrand and Charlotte March.
Website: http://www.anandalima.com
Email: al@photodrifting.com
Carissa Pelleteri.
Photographer.
Hometown: Brooklyn
Years in nyc: Born and Raised!
Likes: Spontaneity, Adventure, Diners, Strong Coffee, Flea Markets, Vintage Things, Animals, The Ocean, Pretty Whistles, Whiskey, Music, The Art of Color, Black, Good Honest People, Life.
Dislikes: Economic Crisis, Middle America Tourists, Too many new Condos in NYC, Clutter, Inconsiderate People.
Aspiration: To continually be a working photographer and create for the rest of my life. I'd like to to not rent one day, have a little plot of land, a proper garden with maybe one descendant running around and a dog.
Cameras: Ricoh R8, Olympus Stylus Epic, Mamiya RZ 67, Canon 5D.
How it all began: It was the mid eighties when i started taking pictures. Taking pictures of my friends during grade school was fun. No photo classes, just me and a cheap camera at my own will. I wanted to preserve memories. This would continue on and off throughout my life without much thought or encouragement....until i took a basic photo 101 course in college. Then - Wham! that was it, the real beginning of forever.
Sign: Cancer.
Website: www.carissapelleteri.com
www.flickr.com/photos/carissap/
Email: cp@photodrifting.com
Chris Campomanes.
Architect | Photographer.
Hometown: Manila
Years in nyc: 5 years.
Likes: Individuality, street, spontaneity, coffee, subways, mobility, travel, dense cities, architecture.
Dislikes: cowards.
Website: www.flickr.com/photos/24541641@N07/
Email: cc@photodrifting.com
Ben and Katie AKA Shooting Brooklyn.
Reporter and Student.
Hometown: Pittsburgh and Riverside
Years in nyc: Five and five.
Camera: 5d and 5d
Website: shootingbrooklyn.blogspot.com
Email: sb@photodrifting.com
William Keating.
Photographer and Visual Artist.
Hometown: Saxtons River, Vermont 05154
Years in nyc: Since 2007.
Likes: Spreading the continuous cycle of creativity, promoting people that care about staying true to themselves and their vision. Painting, drawing, sculpture, whistling, playing the Harmonica, Guitar and my Yamaha synth, Breaking boundries, creative conversation, seeing the in between, Cliff Jumping off the 76ft cliffs on lake champlain. Being in the moment and sharing it. Snuffleufogous and Oscar the Grouch.
Dislikes: Myopic people.
Astrological Sign: Dragon.
Favorite Camera: Quaker Oats Pinhole from the 5th grade.
Favorite Place: Bull's Pond back in Vermont.
Website: www.dripbook.com/wtkeats
Email: wk@photodrifting.com
Bernard Szeneitas.
Student.
Hometown: Grenloch
Years in nyc: AHHHHHH
Cameras: Canon 10d, Hasselblad 500cm, Yashica G, Holga 120n.
Fact: Sick
Website: www.flickr.com/stickyjugular
Email: bs@photodrifting.com
Payal Parikh.
Photographer.
Hometown: Parsippany, NJ
Years in nyc: 4.
Likes: dark chocolate, sleeping, shooting, running, orchids, red wine, spongebob squarepants, elephants and lions.
Dislikes: bad smells, tiny dogs (really. why?), cooking, white wine, being behind schedule, cold weather, dishonesty, snoring.
Cameras: Canon AE1-P, Holga, Toyo View, Canon 5D.
Website: www.payalparikh.dphoto.com
Email: pp@photodrifting.com
Eric Nowels.
Producer & Photographer.
Hometown: DC
Years in nyc: 7.
Website: http://www.ericnowels.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/iheartfixedgear/
Email: en@photodrifting.com
Aya Rosen.
Artist.
Hometown: Jerusalem, Israel
Years in nyc: 2 and a half.
Likes: Honesty, sex, making art, the worldwideweb, Salvation army stores, candy.
Dislikes: high heels shows, canned tuna, war, TV, talking on the phone, perfume, having to answer the "what do you do for a living?" question.
Cameras: Canon SXI.
Website: http://www.louchelab.com
http://www.ayarosen.com
http://louchelab.etsy.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ayarosen/
http://louchelab.blogspot.com
Email: ar@photodrifting.com
The Thinking Cap.
N/A.
Hometown: NYC.
Years in nyc: Lifers.
Likes: N/A.
Dislikes: N/A.
Cameras: N/A.
Email: tc@photodrifting.com
Jeri Lampert.
Photographer.
Hometown: East Coast.
Years in nyc: 10.
Likes: Photography, of course! Drawing, going to gallery openings, being outside and exercising, being social and having the most fun you can while you're young.
Dislikes: I like almost everyone. If I don't like you, then there's something wrong with you. I really don't like digital photography that much, but I do it. I dislike generic things.
Cameras: Mamiya RZ 67, Mamiya 7, Lomography, Dianas, And if I gotta shoot digital then The Canon 5D Mark II.
Sites: http://jerilampert.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jerilampert/
Email: jl@photodrifting.com
Joe Quint.
Graphic Designer.
Hometown: NYC (Greenwich Village).
Years in nyc:20ish.
Dislikes: Long lenses, people who talk more than they shoot, and Ann Coulter.
Cameras: For film, Nikon F2A. For digital, Nikon D700.
Sites: www.joequint.com
Email: jq@photodrifting.com
Ry Georgia Pepper.
Artist/ Theater Technician.
Hometown: Pawling, NY.
Years in nyc:Since 2001.
Likes: Roughhousing, going unnoticed in a crowd, melting crayons, having ideas, coffee, television and the word jerk.
Dislikes: Jerks and worrying.
Factoid: Named after Ry Cooder and Georgia O'Keefe.
Camera: Nikon D90.
Sites: www.ArtsandDafts.com
Email: rp@photodrifting.com
Geoffrey Weg.
Law Student.
Hometown: Rego Park, NY (Queens).
Years in nyc:Since 1986 (born and raised).
Interests: many many things.
Dislikes: pop music (no offense).
One thing I really want to do: Travel the world for an extended period of time, taking photos and enjoying life.
Current Home: ABC City.
Website: http://www.GeoffreyWeg.com
Email: gw@photodrifting.com
Mariano T. Rodríguez Ribas.
Filmmaker/Documentarist.
Hometown: Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Years in nyc:9 months and counting.
Likes: follow the rabbit.
Dislikes: not following the rabbit.
Cameras: Nikon D300, Nikon P6000.
Current Home: ABC City.
Blogs: http://www.followfollow.blogspot.com
http://www.conejonaranja.blogspot.com
http://www.estopasorecien.blogspot.com
Email: mr@photodrifting.com
Alessandra De La Cruz.
I currently have 3 jobs.
Hometown: Niskayuna, NY.
Years in nyc: 5.
Likes: cadmium orange, dark chocolate, senior citizens, doggies.
Dislikes: children, technology, numbers.
Blog: http://www.alessandradelacruzart.blogspot.com/
Email: ac@photodrifting.com
Matt Lament.
art director, motion graphics.
Hometown: Atascadero, CA.
Years in nyc: 4.
Cameras: Nikon D80, Sanyo HD 1000, iPhone.
Favorite Photographer: Wolfgang Tillmans.
Favorite Designers: Kurt Schwitters, Josef Muller-Brockmann.
I suggest you visit: The Beat Shower karaoke bar in Kyoto, Japan. $10 all you can drink beers. True story.
Websites: http://www.alkemic.com
http://www.vimeo.com/user181328/videos
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattlament/sets/
Email: ml@photodrifting.com
Vitaliy Piltser.
Student.
Hometown: St. Petersburg, Russia.
Years in nyc: 15.
Cameras: Nikon D80.
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cityraven/
Email: vp@photodrifting.com
Alex Gaidouk.
Photographer.
Hometown: Arkhangelsk, Russia.
Years in nyc: 6 months.
Cameras: Nikon D700, Mamiya 7.
Likes: Abandonments, empty spaces, secret places, sterility, minimal synth, italo.
Dislikes: Congestion, obstructions, cilantro, stale air.
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/soviet/
Email: ag@photodrifting.com
Jonathan Meter.
Photographer.
Hometown: Philadelphia, PA.
Years in nyc: 1.
Cameras: Canon 5D, Pentax 67, Canon Rebel G, Polaroid Spirit 600.
Favorite Photographers: Danny Clinch, Walter Iooss Jr. Andreas Gursky, Boogie.
Qoute: "If you ain't got no paper than steal the cd, listen man i'll let you know how it feel to be me." -black thought (the roots).
Website: http://www.jonathanmeter.com
http://jonathanmeter.blogspot.com/
Email: jm@photodrifting.com