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Interviewing photographers – Michel Winckler-Krog

Continuing our series of interviews with photographers, we have Michel Winckler-Krog who some people might know under the name Malach.

Michel is a visual artist who combines photography with digital paiting, which often results in sinister and highly detailed pieces of art, often printed in large scales.

As mentioned in the interview below, Michel has been on film productions and made numerous music videoes, all of which you can see via the links below. For now, sit back and enjoy the interview with a true artist:

Is this the dream? Are you living it and has it always been photography?
- Isn’t creativity the state of being where the boundaries between reality and dreams become volatile? Living it kinda becomes inevitable. I reckon it’s not a thing I directly asked for. It just is.
I become restless if I don’t follow. It’s like a perpetual mescaline trip. Photography is a bi-product brought along by random events after being a producer on a film production and had to kill some waiting time on set. Through the lens of a borrowed camera seemed to be a good choice.

I don’t know if I would say that I’m a photographer. I just like to shape. Photography is just one out of many available mediums. I like cooking as well, but I’m not a chef.

How did you get to where you are today?
- Curiosity and practice. A shitload of bad choices that forced me to develope as well as good choices that brought things along that caressed my ego. I’ve walked paths where I felt challenged and inspired. Haven’t really had a goal.

What is the single most important photo you’ve taken?
- Hard to say which are most important. I reckon they all are more or less in the instance I’ll take them.. but I’ll highlight this one for now. At least it managed to create quite a stir. As most of my pictures it’s a mesh of model photography, painting and photomanipulation.

What part of what you do makes you get up in the morning? What motivates you?
- Ha. Generally motivated by the alarmclock when I get tired of putting it on snooze..
I have too many concepts I want to create.. more than I would be able to ever produce, so that’s a good drive.. if I don’t get up, I wouldn’t really have a chance to follow up on them.. and who knows. Maybe my brain will explode then.

What would be worst body part to lose this very instant?
- First thought was penis.. but that might be a bit of a childish answer. But again.. it would be really annoying to lose.

And if that happened, what would you do then?
- seriously.. I haven’t got the faintest clue and I don’t really want to think about it.

What has been the hardest trial in your getting to where you are today?
- It was figuring out, what it was I wanted to do in the first place. I think I have considered most things to be honest.  I think I’ve more or less ruled out a lot of possibilities. Lawyer wasn’t an option. I played with the thought of biochemistry for a long period, but decided that crunching formulas would be boring. Tried the military, but I’m not keen of mud, people yelling and rules. Tried dealing drugs, but that was followed by a path of bad habits and problems.
I decided to be creative instead. It’s like getting a carte blanche to act like an infant for the rest of your life and letting the world be a big playground.

What is the strongest advice you could give young aspiring photographers?
- There’s no concept too crazy to be made into a picture.

Links

http://www.intensestudios.net
http://www.malach.deviantart.com
http://www.youtube.com/user/Intense2200dk
http://www.nihilistisk-folkeparti.dk