Category: Interviews

  • B: Q & A with John Sypal

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    B: Q & A with John Sypal

    John Sypal is a photographer based in Tokyo

  • Robert Adams Interviewed – Thomas Weski, John Szarkowski, Shooting 450 Rolls of Film in Denver – AMERICAN SUBURB X

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    Robert Adams Interviewed – Thomas Weski, John Szarkowski, Shooting 450 Rolls of Film in Denver – AMERICAN SUBURB X

    “I shot about 450 rolls of film, all up and down the Front Range, mostly in the Denver area, though. And the work from that sat under—I printed it all and mounted every print, but it sat under my work table for about—whatever it was—I mean, like 20-some years.”

  • Meet Emerging Photography Juror Jessie Wender, Photo Editor at The New York Times – Feature Shoot

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    Meet Emerging Photography Juror Jessie Wender, Photo Editor at The New York Times – Feature Shoot

    Jessie Wender is a photo editor, writer and producer. She has worked in the photo departments of The New York Times, Apple, National Geographic, The New Yorker, Esquire, and Time Inc. She loves working with artists and with creative people, and supporting emerging photographers.

  • Jack Latham | 1000 Words

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    Jack Latham | 1000 Words

    n the occasion of his solo exhibition currently at RPS House Bristol, photographer Jack Latham sits down with 1000 Words Editor, Tim Clark to discuss his latest body of work Sugar Paper Theories. The project delves into Iceland’s unsolved, double-murder investigation from 1974 – known as the Gudmundur and Geirfinnur case – following the disappearance of two men in separate incidents in the country’s southwestern region. By deftly fusing photographs of key protagonists implicated in the historical event – suspects, whistleblowers, conspiracy theorists, expert witnesses and bystanders – with archival material from the original police files, Latham pieces together a narrative reconstruction of the case to explore the machinations of memory and the power of suggestibility, as well as photography’s truth claims.

  • Bryan Schutmaat:The Goddamn Interview – AMERICAN SUBURB X

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    Bryan Schutmaat:The Goddamn Interview – AMERICAN SUBURB X

    “In very broad terms, it seems that the work made in the West during the 20th century portrays a prolonged event – a disaster, you could say – that unfolded as modernity overtook the landscape and ideologies were instilled in American culture”.

  • B: Q & A with Louie Moskowitz

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    B: Q & A with Louie Moskowitz

    I love photographing this area, wouldn’t change it for anything. And yes, there’s a lot of people taking photos here, but mainly of skylines and the stars and more landscape photos. I could say negative things about the photos of our area in this age that become popular, but I’ll sound like a jackass… which for the most part I am.

  • How Can Women Photographers Represent Mexico’s Disappeared?

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    How Can Women Photographers Represent Mexico’s Disappeared?

    Maya Goded and Mayra Martell are two Mexico City–based photographers who chronicle the stories of families whose daughters have been murdered or disappeared in Ciudad Juárez. Martell has worked her whole life—first in Juárez, her hometown, and then across Latin America—on the identities and vestiges of young women who are absent, yet present in the places they used to inhabit. She has also documented those affected by other forms of violence, such as the mothers of people murdered by the Colombian Army or the everyday nature of drug culture in Sinaloa.

  • Photographer Lynsey Addario on the Importance of Telling Women’s Stories – Condé Nast Traveler

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    Photographer Lynsey Addario on the Importance of Telling Women’s Stories – Condé Nast Traveler

    In a new interview series, we talk to the nine extraordinary women who make up our Women Who Travel advisory board. Up first? Pulitzer prize-winning photographer, Lynsey Addario.

  • Nigerian-Born Lọlá Ákínmádé Åkerström Is Exactly What Contemporary Travel Photography Needs – PhotoShelter Blog

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    Nigerian-Born Lọlá Ákínmádé Åkerström Is Exactly What Contemporary Travel Photography Needs – PhotoShelter Blog

    Lọlá Ákínmádé Åkerström has been a PhotoShelter member since 2013 but a champion for travel photography and writing for much longer. A Stockholm-based photographer and author, she’s taking over our Instagram this week to share moments from her travels across the globe. Known for her bright, high contrast images that perfectly capture the excitement of encountering new cultures, foods and terrains, she granted us a window into her experiences as a photographer of color in the travel photography world, the opportunity to pick her brain about her past experiences as an oil painter, the value of personal projects and so much more.

  • When Experimentation Works Out: How Photojournalist Peter Monsees Won the FENCE After a 10-Year Photography Hiatus – PhotoShelter Blog

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    When Experimentation Works Out: How Photojournalist Peter Monsees Won the FENCE After a 10-Year Photography Hiatus – PhotoShelter Blog

    One of this year’s regional winners is Peter Monsees, a seasoned photojournalist who left the field to pursue personal passions after 35 years. He notes that the images in his winning collection, known as Nature’s Colorful Palette, represent his experimentation with nature and wildlife photography after a ten-year hiatus from shooting. Lucky for us Peter is also a PhotoShelter member, so we caught up with him to learn more about his experiences with the FENCE and to pick his brain about all things photography.

  • Brittney Denham: The States Project: Wyoming | LENSCRATCH

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    Brittney Denham: The States Project: Wyoming | LENSCRATCH

    Coming from a place that city folks might find remote has led to some polarizing conversations. I got asked as a kid if I rode my horse to school every day, or if we had running water. On the other side of the spectrum, until I moved to the city I never thought it was odd that most people I knew had an animal mounted to living room wall. Moving from place to place gave me an outsiders perspective. I think my upbringing made me more flexible as a maker as well as more susceptible to making work about what I’m encountering in the moment, much like how Western Vestige or This is to tell you we’re out in the Old West was made.

  • In conversation with… five female Ethiopian photographers to watch

    In conversation with… five female Ethiopian photographers to watch

    With a vibrant photography scene, Ethiopia has no shortage of talent and women photographers are leading the way. Here are my conversations with just five of them: Hilina Abebe, Tsion Haileselassie, Addis Aemero, Maheder Haileselassie and Martha Tadesse.

  • B: Q & A with Bryan Formhals

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    B: Q & A with Bryan Formhals

    That’s definitely true. Creation is only half the battle, distribution is the other half. Media companies have full teams dedicated to just monitoring the data and then boosting on social media. There’s definitely been a shift in how brands and media companies approach social media. A lot of them have created Audience Development departments that focus on growing audiences across different platforms.

  • “I’m an Outsider on the Inside”: An Interview with Bruce Davidson | The New Yorker

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    “I’m an Outsider on the Inside”: An Interview with Bruce Davidson | The New Yorker

    The photographer Bruce Davidson, who is eighty-five years old, has lived with his wife, Emily, in a rambling apartment on the Upper West Side for the past five decades. It is appointed with broken-in chairs and couches, an impressive folk-art collection, and has an extra bedroom, to accommodate visits from their four grandchildren. A bathroom has been transformed into a darkroom, complete with a custom-made Leitz enlarger and a fibre print washer installed in the claw-foot tub. An archive of Davidson’s prints and negatives are housed throughout the apartment in floor-to-ceiling shelving.

  • Bruce Gilden Has Balls | Leicaphilia

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    Bruce Gilden Has Balls | Leicaphilia

    I like Gilden. It takes a lot of balls to walk up to someone on the street and push a flash camera in their face. Does it take some special photographic talent? No. But that’s not the point. It takes a certain unified vision. The point is Gilden has created an aesthetic unique to him and hasn’t much deviated from it in 50 years. As such, he’s created a large, coherent body of work. I’ve heard people criticize his work, claiming it gimmicky and artless, something any 8th grader would be capable of. Could your kid have taken these pictures? Yes. But your kid didn’t, and Gilden did, just like it would have been within your kid’s skill set to have painted Jackson Pollock’s Alchemy, 1947. Your kid didn’t, because your kid would have never considered the aesthetic potential inherent in the medium. The genius of Pollock -and Gilden- is having seen the aesthetic others missed.

  • Acclaimed photojournalist Tom Stoddart reflects on ‘ringside seat to history’ during remarkable career | London Evening Standard

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    Acclaimed photojournalist Tom Stoddart reflects on ‘ringside seat to history’ during remarkable career | London Evening Standard

    Acclaimed photojournalist Tom Stoddart has vowed never to put down the camera as he reflects on his remarkable career today.

  • Raghu Rai: The Man Behind the Lens | The Daily Star

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    Raghu Rai: The Man Behind the Lens | The Daily Star

    Indian photojournalist and member of the prestigious Magnum Photos, Raghu Rai, is better-known to Bangladeshis for the photos he took during our Liberation War in 1971. Rai, who has been awarded the Friends of Liberation War Honour, recently visited Bangladesh on account of Drik’s Chobi Mela X. This week’s In Focus publishes an interview of Rai with Ananta Yusuf, Producer, Star Live, The Daily Star.

  • Alex Majoli : « Today, the world is covered with images »

    Alex Majoli : « Today, the world is covered with images »

    The Italian-born photographer presents his “Scene” series at the BAL in Paris until April 28th. Armed with an imposing device made with electronic flashes as in a studio, Alex Majoli catches the image of a group of people in strong situations, sometimes in events of the news. It questions the way of doing photojournalism today and tries to capture the theatricality of the world. He gave an interview to The Eye of Photography.

  • B: Street Resurfacing Project

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    B: Street Resurfacing Project

    John Sypal recently sent me a photocopy of this old interview with Garry Winogrand, conducted by Charles Hagen. It was originally published in Afterimage in December 1977, just before Winogrand’s 50th birthday, and arguably near the peak of his career. Some of the photos included are recognizable from Public Relations which had just been published, and Stock Photographs, which would out a few years later. Maybe they looked good in the original magazine, but here they’re severely degraded by multiple copy/scans. So it’s probably best to ignore them and just enjoy the text, which is chock full of interesting nuggets. To the best of my knowledge this is not online elsewhere. For serious photo nerds only!

  • Beyond war with conflict photographer Yuri Kozyrev

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    Beyond war with conflict photographer Yuri Kozyrev

    He talked in Moscow with host Nathan Thornburgh, who worked alongside Kozyrev throughout Russia and the Caucasus while they were both at TIME magazine. They talked about the late great Stanley Greene, about traveling with mujahedin, and about why it was hard to quit war for good.