I initially snapped her from across side alley as she fed the birds, and then went to talk to her. Her creatures in the middle of their feed, disturbed took flight in fear at a stranger. Soon returning to the business at hand once they’d seen I posed no threat.

At the beginning of 2009 I saw this young lady crawling, climbing, ducking and performing other cool gymnastics moves on stage that I wish my body could do. After figuring out she was not part of the horrible venue's back up dancers, but was operating a camera like there was no tomorrow, I knew this could be something special. Rosa Maria Koolhoven works under the name of Nikanika.com. She lives in Utrecht and is in her final year of Graphic Design at the HKU High School of Arts Utrecht. During weekends she likes to take pictures at parties, of which 80% are dubstep parties.

If traveling is a job then Ed Schofield would be employee of the month. This young photographer from a small town just south of good old London UK, has spend most of his time traveling around the world. Accompanied by his close friends and camera he sets sail to explore and document the world through his viewfinder. The result is a everlasting 2 frames a day documentary about his adventurous life. We took our chance to conduct an interview with this neo Jules Verne while he was back on solid ground.

Interested by the human psyche, obscurity and those tender, glorified moments of absence, Helen Flanagan work portraits the intensity of loneliness that we human beings like to close our eyes for. The general dreamy atmosphere of composition and used palette of loamy colors makes every photo look like a still from a dream. This photography is maybe not for everyone, but we really appreciate it. Turn of the lights, get a glass of whiskey and put on a Nick Drake record.

Meagan Long is twenty-one years old and from the eighteenth largest city in the U.S. Young and confused. Old and worldly. She knows who she is, but knows nothing about anyone else. She has everyone figured about, but is foreign to herself. Hasn't learned enough about the world. Has learned too much. Too much to care yet cares too much. Has lost faith in everything but still loves. Sometimes depressed yet mostly happy. Because there is one thing. One thing that she can't move past that leaves her waiting every time. Over and over again. It never moves past her mind, circling every waking moment. And even in her dreams. Not a nightmare, just a state of being in consciousness and unconsciousness. It is the basis of everything she says and everything she does. Everything she wants to learn, everywhere she wants to go. Her reason for leaving, her reason for staying. The inspiration behind all her work. It is the death and the life. Got curious? We did...

Almost a year after the first test issue the second issue of crack magazine is a fact. The CFYE brand and network has expanded during this year beyond our imagination, and we've only just begun. This issue (digital only) is put together by our good friend and respected designer Meneer de Zwart, who had the difficult task to narrow down the huge amount of submissions and contributions.

David Richardson lives in a 'behind the scenes' adventure. Music gigs, artists, late night parties, beautiful women, (drunken) friends and drunken crowds are some of the subjects found in this London based photographer's work. His pictures are somehow realer then life. Maybe that's because of the film grain, maybe it's because of the moments he chooses. I don't know, but whatever it is, it keeps us coming back to his photos time and time again!

The beauty of Carl W. Heindl's work is the huge amount of diversity in his images, but he yet manages to maintain a distinctive style. On a regular basis we saw his pictures popping up on shuttercrack, so we knew we were on to something great. We managed to get a few words from him before he and his camera are going into a deep winter sleep.

There was a time where we just had discovered Flickr and were amazed by the countless products of creativity we could find on there. We gathered as much things we liked as possible in our own pool, shutter crack, and blogged the best of that on shuttercrack.com. We still do that, but because of all the amazing work out there, we became less easy to impress. One photographer who never ceizes to amaze us though, is the French Stéphane Giner. Stéphane's work is breathtaking, intense portraits, real street scenes and challenging urban explorations are just a few of the works you can find in his photostream. Since Stéphane keeps on impressing us, it was about time we did an interview with him!

Jeremy Gibbs aka Romanywg is one of those people that his all over the place. In the punk era he started carrying a camera (busy on making a book on that) went on to be a film director, made custom vinyl toys and nowadays he has found his home in the urbex and street art scene. I think the only possible question can be: why didn't we interview him before?