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-ABOUT JOSH SUTTON-
THANKS TO CHARU KUKREJA FOR DOING THE INTERVIEW
CHARU: did you write about yourself yet?
JOSH: not yet
JOSH: i still have to
JOSH: i don't like doing it
CHARU: hey ill do it
JOSH: ok
JOSH: born 10-02-81 in chicago
CHARU: im asking the questinos
CHARU: youre answering
CHARU: got it?
JOSH: ok
CHARU: i need to do my interview now keep quiet
JOSH: hehe ok
CHARU: so josh.... what kind of umm awards have you won?
JOSH: CHARU, i have won, ok i got a superior (highest award) in the jea
contest of
color newspaper photography
CHARU: whats jea?
JOSH: journalism education association or something
CHARU: daaammmn
CHARU: okay excellent
CHARU: okay so keep going
JOSH: ask away
CHARU: more awards
JOSH: oh, umm i got this geology thing, but that's not really for
photography, i think that
that's the only photography award
JOSH: i have to wait cause i just sent some stuff in
JOSH: i don't like contests
CHARU: of course, okay so when did you discover your love for photography?
JOSH: i would have to say jr year
JOSH: fall of jr year
CHARU: was there a moment you could say
JOSH: not really, my whole life i've kinda thought it was cool, but that's
when i really got
into it
CHARU: okay what do you love about it
JOSH: how it can be used for communication, and art, the whole idea of it,
and what it
can do, for instance taking pictures of homeless people to help them
JOSH: or bands to document a scene
CHARU: totally
CHARU: Are there any artists that have influenced your work?
JOSH: hehe, i don't want to say influenced, but glen e. friedman is my
favorite
photographer, and, this will sound weird, but ian mackaye
CHARU: hehe yeah hes punkrawk
CHARU: you mean his music?
JOSH: that, and his politics
JOSH: how he goes about doing things
JOSH: the charge very little, all ages, diy thing
CHARU: have you ever seen him live?
JOSH: oh no
JOSH: sniff, sadly
CHARU: i weep with you
JOSH: thanks
CHARU: woah i feel like connie chung
JOSH: ...and i feel like the person connie chung is interviewing
CHARU: hehe
CHARU: so tell me about your family
JOSH: i have a mom, dad, and brother
CHARU: any brothers, sisters, amphibian pets?
CHARU: heh spanky
JOSH: my mom is nice, my dad is a journalist, and my brother is mean and
in a band
CHARU: so a good family life- were you a troubled teen?
CHARU: or is this too personal for the masses
JOSH: in my earlier years i was more materialistic than i am now
CHARU: who isn't
JOSH: yeah
CHARU: oh yeah, what are your plans for the future
CHARU: that was horribly vague
CHARU: but you know, college
JOSH: photojournalism, film making, owning an open gallery, going to
college, helping,
getting married, having kids, i could go on and on
CHARU: hehe, what school are you going to
JOSH: getting a checking account
JOSH: ohio university
JOSH: in athens, ohio
CHARU: are you excited about college?
JOSH: oh yes
JOSH: very
CHARU: whys that
JOSH: freedom
JOSH: and resources
JOSH: and an education
CHARU: and free beer
CHARU: bah education
JOSH: hehe
CHARU: lets see
CHARU: lets get serious for a moment
JOSH: sure
CHARU: if you were a fruit, what would you be and why?
JOSH: kiwi
JOSH: tastes good and is running for president
CHARU: hehe
CHARU: vegetable?
JOSH: tough, but fair
JOSH: gosh, maybe a pepper of some sort
CHARU: oooh jalepeno?
JOSH: maybe
JOSH: i was thinking something like a plain green pepper
CHARU: i think youd be yeah a green pepper
CHARU: those are good
JOSH: yeah i love em, maybe an onion
CHARU: ewww
CHARU: take it back
JOSH: hehe
JOSH: fine green pepper
CHARU: thats shwiggity shwank
CHARU: okay good
CHARU: green amphibian?
JOSH: no blasphemy
JOSH: which one would i be?
CHARU: yes
JOSH: frog, can't i be a fish?
CHARU: hmmmm not unless its green
CHARU: and an amphibian
JOSH: oh, ok
CHARU: which brings me to my next quesiton
CHARU: fish?
JOSH: goldfish in a 12 year old's bowl
CHARU: favorite movie?
JOSH: with a deep sea diver and a treasure chest
JOSH: ...this is hard
CHARU: you can name a few
JOSH: there are so many
JOSH: my mind went blank
JOSH: i'll name one
JOSH: "do the right thing"
JOSH: by spike lee
CHARU: never seen it
JOSH: it's good
CHARU: shawshank redemption?
JOSH: so is "crooklyn"
CHARU: hehe so is friday
JOSH: hehe
JOSH: i still gotta see magnolia, american beauty, like a ton of movies
CHARU: okay favorite musician
CHARU: me too... i never watch movies anymore
JOSH: i'm gonna have to go with fugazi, but i've been listening to
tortoise a lot, and 404
records stuff
CHARU: tortoise is kinda kreepy but i will second that emotion
CHARU: okay scariest moment?
JOSH: they have this good cd with the ex, it's good, faster too
JOSH: hmm
JOSH: i don't know, i was scared when i met glen e. friedman
JOSH: i even forgot the name of my camera
CHARU: yo met him?
CHARU: hehe
JOSH: at the sixspace opening in chicago
CHARU: that cant be the scariest
CHARU: thats right i went to that
JOSH: i don't know
CHARU: okay most embarassing
JOSH: gosh
JOSH: umm pas
JOSH: pass
CHARU: come on!
CHARU: this is the best part of the interview
CHARU: the people aren't going to read it without the juice
JOSH: ...fine...getting on the wrong bus for a bar-mitzvah
CHARU: hehe okay fine i wont harrass you... but that was a cheap outie
CHARU: allright favorite color?
JOSH: cheap? do you realize how many kids made fun of me for that
JOSH: ask brian korey, or people from edgewood
CHARU: hehe- what bus did you go on
JOSH: another bar-mitzvah bus
CHARU: haha
JOSH: favorite color is probably blue
CHARU: wait did you know the kid
JOSH: or grey (photonerd)
CHARU: i'll tell you mine
JOSH: i knew both the kids, how about we go to the next question
CHARU: hehe
JOSH: what's yours, going to homecoming with a loser?
CHARU: cheese whiz or velveeta?
CHARU: ouch that was harsh
JOSH: whiz
JOSH: hehe
CHARU: not at all josh
CHARU: i enjoyed myself immensley thank you very much
JOSH: aww, thanks
CHARU: i peed in the brownie circle
CHARU: when the girl squeezed my hand
JOSH: want me to put the pics of us on the website?
JOSH: what's a brownie circle?
CHARU: you know like girl scouts
JOSH: oh
CHARU: and at the end.. you all get together
CHARU: and sing a happy song
CHARU: and hold hands
JOSH: and pee
CHARU: andthen send a squeeze around
CHARU: hehe yes and THEn pee
JOSH: did you get a badge for it?
CHARU: hmmm probably
JOSH: hehe
CHARU: they had a badge for everything
CHARU: okay most happiest moment
JOSH: ...when someone told me that they liked me
CHARU: when was this
JOSH: couple of days ago
CHARU: awww josh! who who?
JOSH: i don't want to embarass her
JOSH: i mean who wants to be seen with a photographer
CHARU: hehe
CHARU: okay, i will stop being so prying
CHARU: sorry
JOSH: no it's ok
CHARU: allright anything else you want to say
JOSH: hmm
JOSH: be nice to everybody
JOSH: help out
CHARU: totally
JOSH: don't look at the camera unless asked to
CHARU: be nice to photographers
JOSH: yeah, save the photographers
CHARU: anyone you want to thank?
JOSH: i'll just rattle off names
CHARU: please do
JOSH: brian, CHARU, sarah (covers a lot of sarahs) , ann, lake forest
people and the
special person, matt b. and his band, rick, the fireside bowl for being
there, the bands i've
photographed
JOSH: umm, alex, lori, shay, carly (both of them), photo teachers,
JOSH: highland park crew
CHARU: ms dorigan
CHARU: shes tha bombtrack
JOSH: yeah, john for making the web site
CHARU: you mean john dzak the third?
JOSH: phil from detroit
JOSH: i do
JOSH: bands for playing me nice music, zines for giving me something to
look at,
JOSH: glen for saying keep the P.M.A.
CHARU: ian mckaye, glen
JOSH: hehe, yeah my personal friends
CHARU: hehe
CHARU: your family?
JOSH: yeah i guess, hehe
CHARU: spanky and his suburban hardcore
JOSH: camera stores
JOSH: (long thank you list)
CHARU: that shutan place
JOSH: and helix, and calumet
CHARU: whoever bought you the first camera
JOSH: yeah, seagull for making a cheap cool medium format camera
JOSH: people into politics
JOSH: ohio university for accepting me
CHARU: yeah
JOSH: and again you for interviewing me
CHARU: hehe cool i get a thank you
JOSH: you got two
CHARU: well thank you
CHARU: i like this job
JOSH: you're welcome
JOSH: i like being the one interviewed for a change