Interview with Photographer Jessica Tremp

Born in 1981, Photographer Jessica Tremp grew up in Switzerland before moving to Melbourne at the age of 18. She has been scratching her creative itch through various mediums and having looked at the world through a view finder all her life, with or without a camera in hand, finally opened the floodgates on photography more seriously in the last few years. She has been published in magazines including ‘empty’ and the American ‘shots’ and has participated in various group shows.

What have you been up to lately?
I’ve had a couple of weeks off work and have been spending my lazy-bum days stealing succulents from front gardens, baking buttery treats and  looking after a 5 week old piglet.

How is the piglet going?
Pickles is great, she’s back with her piggy family on a hilly farm, though I’m not sure how she’ll adapt back to sleeping in the grub after snoozing on a doona in our bedroom and eating handfed noodles.

A lot of your work has a strong ethereal quality to it. How did this style eventuate?
Well, my good ol’ pals Charlie Chaplin, Elvis and Louis XIV didn’t think it was all that ethereal, but I guess it’s all the in betweens and over all the colours, shapes and forms we can’t put words to, but we essentially know and feel are there.

How did you first get into photography?
Travel would have to be the first thing that ripped my eyes wide open.
All those exotic colours and faces and places. Then I guess I must have realized that the everyday world around me is just as exciting and that I have more time to get to the depth of it.

What are your favourites in your camera bag?
I’m not very gadgety. My camera doesn’t even have a lens cap at the moment and my canon freely swings alongside coins, receipts, bobby pins, twix wrappers and lip stick smudges in my handbag.

What is the hardest element to photography?
To find the ‘on’ switch after a bottle of irish whiskey and the most brilliant idea ever.

Where do you find inspiration?
In little shelves of my silly head between visions of roasting marshmallows in snowed-in cottages and running with the wolves.

What are you watching/listening to/reading/browsing at the moment?
I’ve been on non stop dates with the Big Star box set lately. I think it’s getting serious.
Oh, and this….

What would be your dream job/client to work for?
Tediously picking up my tattslotto fortune winnings, running amok creating sickly wonders to thrill you into throwing further a fortune at me.

Link:
jessicatremp.com