Tuula Roos, Helsinki, Finland, won the 1st prize: trip for 2 to New York, 1,000 GBP and she will become a photographer for Metro for the day. Now an amateur, we hope Tuula’s photos will be noticed in the industry. Congratulations and good luck Tuula! You can see Tuula’s portfolio on metphoto.org including her contact details.
Q: How did you start digital photography?
I bought a digital camera three years ago and I’ve been crazy about it ever since. At first I took about two hundred pictures a day, nowadays maybe a hundred. I’m especially interested in street photography and I always carry my camera with me, Tuula, a pensioner, tells right after she’s been told about the victory.
Q: How did the victorious photo come into being?
I was actually taking a photo into another direction on the same street when I turned and saw the old lady walk up the little hill. Suddenly I was in a rush to adjust my camera to catch her before she could walk away!
Q: How do you think about digital photography?
Photographing has been my on-and-off hobby ever since I was fifteen, but it wasn’t until I got the digital camera that I really went for it. Everything’s so easy and cheap with digital technics, and you don’t have to develop all the failed pictures. Right now I have my third digital camera.
Q: How does it feel to have won an international competition?
Absolutely amazing! I can’t believe that they’ve liked the photo so much abroads too.
Q: What about the trip to New York you got as a prize?
Well, New York is the Mecca of street photographers. Of all the places in the world I would choose to go there, so the prize went to the right person! All the time I have there will probably be spent taking photos – there’s so many lovely ads and so many colours and people on the streets of New York. I hope your readers will like them when they see them in Metro.