I don’t know if I’m just getting older or that I’ve been sniffing too much paint fumes but the years seem to pass by very quickly since we’ve started the CFYE platform. As we speak it’s already three years ago when we started with this project, though it feels like It was only yesterday when you could find Kaymir and myself in coffeeshop Siberie in Amsterdam every other afternoon. That’s where we hung out to enjoy our tea, our J and to put the…Read More »
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It’s not too long ago I met ‘performance artist’ (by lack of better words) Abner Preis. What stands out from that encounter is one sentence Abner said to me: “Most artists are a bunch of wankers”.
Like with most things I don’t understand right away, I gave it a smile and let it pass. After a few days I gave it some thought and it doomed: He’s right! you guys are a bunch of fucking wankers aren’t you?
With every fucking piece of work…Read More »
We at CFYE asked ourselves: What is a professional anyway? Especially in creative lines of work like photography. What defines someone’s level of competence? We didn’t go to art school so we can’t lay it out in big expensive words for you, but for example: Street art doesn’t know any professionals, nor amateurs. There are people that make their living with it, there are kids that do it because they don’t have anything else to do. It knows no limits or boundaries and is,…Read More »