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The New York Based Photographer Nikola Tamindzic has our attention.
Born in Belgrade in 1973, Nikola Tamindzic established his reputation when he started shooting nightlife reportage for Nick Denton’s notorious Gawker in 2004

Check out our interview, and if you want to know something more just check out his websites

www.ambrel.net
www.homeofthevain.com

Name and Age: Nikola Tamindzic, 34.

Where do you live? Manhattan.

Your favourite song of the moment!
My Last.fm says it’s Hands In The Dark by Chromatics and Computer Love by Glass Candy. Ha! How appropriate that both Glass Candy and Chromatics records came out on Italians Do It Better label!

If you wouldn’t be a photographer, what would you be?
I’ve been so many things before: running a record label, doing radio shows, web design, art direction… And all of that took me to photography. So here we are now! I don’t think I would be anything but a photographer.

Your biggest inspiration?
Helmut Newton, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Brassaï, Terry Richardson, David Lynch.

Five things that you currently love most:
Porkchops, the Glass Candy record (B/E/A/T/B/O/X), David Lynch’s Inland Empire, streets of New York City, and coffee at Cafe Mazi’s on Lower East Side in Manhattan. And completely out of competition, my girlfriend, amazing artist, and wonderful person, Li Maryanski.

How would you describe your style?
It’s a peek into my world. I want people looking at my photos to feel taken into my world - something I feel whenever I see a David Lynch book or read a Gabriel Garcia Marquez book or see a Terry Richardson photo.

What’s the best picture you ever shooted?
It’s always the last one you shot. Fortunately, I have a daily photography site, Home of the Vain, which shows you the last one I shot - so you can see every day which one of my photos is my favourite.

Your last trip?
To my hometown of Belgrade, Serbia.

And the next one?
Hopefully to Italy!

What are your plans for the future?
Other than world domination? Doing fashion and editorial work with French and Italian publications. In New York, I find street life and street fashion very exciting. But I prefer Italian and French approach to fashion in general.

Have you ever been to Italy?
Many, many, many times back in the 1980s. Always for a few months at a time, and probably spent a couple of years there. I fell in love with Northern Italy (we rarely had the chance to travel south), and promised myself I’ll spend my old age there. If that ever comes around, haha.