Paul Paper is 24 and sometimes has the same dream twice.
MOSSLESS: I hear Lithuania has beautiful forests. Is this true?
PAUL PAPER: Lithuania has beautiful and scary forests. Once we went picking
mushrooms with my grandfather and got lost. We somehow entered a swamp
and my grandfather lost his shoe in it, because he could only lift his
sock from the shoe and not the shoe itself as it was stuck in the mud.
Oh, and I don’t like mushrooms.
ML: You have a pretty British name for someone living in Lithuania. What’s
your story?
PP: Somehow this nickname came to my mind long time ago. I was considering
changing it to my real name but that didn’t happen. Having a
creative-name and not your real name over your work has both pluses
and minuses but now I just live with it and don’t really think about
that.
ML: What made you decide to make those cool postcards?
PP: Postcards always fascinated me as something nice and somewhat
old-fashioned. I think it’s really neat to receive one, because as
today everything is done fast and easy, to choose and pick a postcard,
write it, known the address, and finally post it makes it a thing that
requires some time and effort. And that’s exactly what people in today
lack the most, besides money.
ML: Who are your favourite photographers?
PP: So many of them! Good friends: Paul Herbst, Jennilee Marigomen,
Alexander Binder, Francois Coquerel, Ugne Straigyte and Katherine
Squier. And favorites: Paul Schiek, Sam Falls, Jap Scheeren, Jesper
Ulvelius, Lucas Blalock, Marten Lange, Wyne Veen, Noel Rodo-Vankeulen
and many others. Lately I was really inspired by Masahisa Fukase’s
book “The Solitude of Ravens”.
