I received an email from Vasco Casquiho from out of the blue. He started off the best way anyone cam, by complimenting me on this site and noting he’d like to be a guest photographer. He included a link to his site desfocado.com so I thought I’d take a quick look. An hour later, after looking at nearly every single picture he had posted, I responded with a resounding “Yes!”.
Vasco hails from Portugal and his photography is different than anything I’ve featured on the Photo Of The Day so far. I really enjoy his different subjects and approach and hope you do to. And now for his answers to the standard four questions.
Explain a bit about who you are and the type of photography that interests you most.
My name is Vasco Casquilho, I’m 40 years old and I am starting my own photography business, at this moment. I also do post-production in Photoshop.
I specialized in street photography and travel photography. Not so much in the landscapes area, but in the “cityscapes”, if that is even a word. I am also very much into abstract graphisms, mainly the ones that we can get in walls, ceilings and stairways.
I have 3 web presences: www.desfocado.com (means “out of focus”) which is the minimalistic non-flash one, where I feature around 120 pictures ; Also www.newphotolife.com, the flash version, with a lot less photos, and my blog, www.newphotoblog.com
If you could have a paid trip for 4 weeks anywhere in the world just to photograph and report back, where would it be?
Definitely India. The colours, the street dynamics, the animals living together with the population on the main streets of the main cities. It must be every photographer´s dream.
Name two of your photography inspirations.
Eduardo Gageiro ; Sebastião Salgado
What do you hope to convey to others through your photography?
I want to give other people the opportunity to see what´s in the image (a tram, a bulding, window, a person) like they have never seen before, even if they have passed by it a thousand times. The soul of the subject, that is most of the time absent to a non-photographic eye.
