Yvan Rodic Talks To PSFK About His Facehunter Show

Yvan Rodic is the Facehunter. He spends his time traveling around Europe photographing the beautiful people he finds himself at parties with. Recently he took his witty, off-beat style to his new web TV show. We wanted to ask him why he’s decided to get into the moving image.

Yvan, you’ve decided to move from still-photography to the moving image. What’s inspired you to make your own show.

After two years of chasing the elegantly strange, the aesthetically sensual and the discretely eccentric in the world-wide playground of Face Hunter, I feel like it’s high time I share more than just my photos. It became almost frustrating not to show to the world the creativity of all the people I was meeting, who happenned to be not only well dressed but for lots of them very talented as well.

The 1st episode in Mexico City is fantastic. It was loosely based around Fashion Week there - and you managed to feature the same types of exotic people we see in your photography. How do you choose who you want to feature in your shows.

My blog seems to be a good way of casting people for my show. I try to capture charismatic people who do things on their own way. I noticed that people I was photographing were not only well dressed but as well involved in creative projects and I guess most of them would inspire the world with their work and ideas.

You’re using MySpace in an era when all the buzz is about Facebook - why MySpace.TV?

I’m using both, MySpace and Facebook, to reach more people. Producing a show on MySpace was an obvious choice because I’ve gathered my community with that network. It’s true that more and more people are using Facebook as an email, but MySpace keeps being the most important hub where you can find creative profiles, like bands, photographers, filmmakers, etc.

What other cities are you going to feature?

After Mexico City, we’re gonna feature Stockholm and Moscow. We try to present cities that people don’t expect to be happening. Of course we’ll have shows in NYC, London and Tokyo but it’s really more exciting for us and inspiring for people to change their preconceptions about other parts of the world.

What’s inspiring you right now?

In general I’m hyper-inspired by Scandinavia because it is one on the most forward thinking part of the world with such a culture of beauty and harmony.

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