Category: Interviews

  • One in 8 Million — Talk to The Times

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    One in 8 Million — Talk to The Times: The New York Times staff members involved with producing the Metro feature called One in 8 Million are answering questions from readers Aug. 3-7, 2009. Questions may be e-mailed to askthetimes@nytimes.com.

  • Q&A: Tim and Eric on Child Abuse, Diarrhea, and Yerba-Mate Tea

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    Q&A: Tim and Eric on Child Abuse, Diarrhea, and Yerba-Mate Tea: Eric Spitznagel | Vanity Fair: Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! is one of those rare TV shows that can alienate some viewers with nothing more than the opening credits. Even for long-time viewers and hardcore fans, it’s kinda confusing. It begins with…

  • meeting Alex Majoli (part 2)

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    The F Blog: meeting Alex Majoli (part 2): I’m asking them: “hey, why you’re sitting?” Why you don’t use it? They keep philosophying on photography instead. “C’mon guys! Move the ass now! Make some pictures!” And they sit, they criticise other photographers! I mean” “who are you man?!” And it’s common within young photographers, I…

  • whats the jackanory ? – wired to the new rules

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    whats the jackanory ? – wired to the new rules: Delighted to have another first here today on WTJ? An interview with a Creative Director. That glorious honor falls to the incredibly talented Mr Scott Dadich of Wired magazine. Scott has been at Wired since 2006, joining ship after an award winning six year stint…

  • A Talk with Tait Simpson

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    A Talk with Tait. – A Photography Blog.: Blast from the past! I ran into Tait Simpson in my inbox the other day, and was very excited to hear his career updates. I’d previously chatted with Mr. Simpson last year on Earth Day about some work he made in the desert for TOTO High Efficiency…

  • Damion Berger – BOMBLog

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    Damion Berger – BOMBLog: Damion Berger’s work is interesting to me precisely because has so little in common with the majority of his contemporaries. When I first saw it, we just had to talk. So talk we did, about everything: his early mentors, the photographic rat race, form and content, and the ubiquitous debate of…

  • Extending the Frame: An Interview with Susan Meiselas (2006)

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    AMERICANSUBURB X: INTERVIEW: “Extending the Frame: An Interview with Susan Meiselas (2006)”: Susan Meiselas has represented difficult issues with innovative approaches throughout her thirty-year career as a documentary media artist. Her awards include the Robert Capa Gold Medal (1979), the MacArthur Fellowship (1992), and the Hasselblad Prize (1994). A self-described “human rights” photographer and filmmaker,…

  • Vice Magazine – STEPHEN SHORE

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    Vice Magazine – STEPHEN SHORE: If Stephen Shore were known just for the iconic photos he shot as a teenager at Warhol’s original Silver Factory, he’d probably still get a place in the history of photography. But galvanized by a road trip from Manhattan to Amarillo, Texas, in 1972, Shore went on to pioneer the…

  • Interview: Alec Soth

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    Interview: Alec Soth: In this weeks long-overdue interview section, my compadre Daniel Shea interviews Alec Soth. Big ups to Daniel for this excellent and informed interview, check out his site if his name is new to you.

  • Q&A: Hugh Kretschmer, Los Angeles

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    Q&A: Hugh Kretschmer, Los Angeles: Hugh Kretschmer is a photographer based in Los Angeles and specializing in photo-illustration, advertising and editorial photography and design. Of his work, he says: ‘The idea is the most important ingredient. I’ve always appreciated concept because it adds another layer to the photograph and invites participation from the viewer. When…

  • Cambodia Genocide Photographer: Memories From Tuol Sleng Prison

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    AMERICANSUBURB X: INTERVIEW: “Cambodia Genocide Photographer: Memories From Tuol Sleng Prison (1976-1979)”: After Nhem En arrived in Phnom Penh, he was sent to study political science and military tactics at a technical school. En was again promoted to an elite youth unit and sent to China for training in late 1976, at the age of…

  • Guy Tillim

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    Guy Tillim | Verbal Hmmm.: Mention legendary South African photographers in a conversation and in most cases, one name will often pop up and that’s Guy Tillim. Guy is one of South Africa’s top photographers, having started as a war photographer in the 80’s, during the Apartheid era and since then appealing to the art…

  • Q+A with Gregg Delman

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    Q+A with Gregg Delman — MATTHEW FURMAN PHOTOGRAPHY: Up next with a Q+A is NYC based photographer Gregg Delman. He’s shot almost every musician you can think of and also has a killer portfolio of street portraits. If you’ve ever tried to approach a stranger on the street(especially NYC) then you know how hard it…

  • Two Way Lens: Oliver Weber

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    Two Way Lens: Oliver Weber: I can’t remember anymore when my big passion with photography started. I do remember with great pleasure that in my childhood I absolutely wanted to become a detective! From the outset there was this urge to grasp the things that surrounded me and to look into them with my always…

  • How Randy Santos Succeeds Selling Stock Photos

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    Building a “Monumental” Photo Business: How Randy Santos Succeeds Selling Stock Photos – A Picture’s Worth: Randy Santos specializes in Washington DC stock photography. Randy does not license his images through stock agencies and makes a very healthy living selling directly to clients. His images appear in coffee table books, calendars, hotels and restaurants, and…

  • Jenn Ackerman. Trapped: Mental Illness in America’s Prisons

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    Jenn Ackerman. Trapped: Mental Illness in America’s Prisons « Prison Photography: A few months ago I wrote to Jenn Ackerman, praised her Trapped project and of course offered to promote it. I wanted to get at her stories behind the images – namely do an interview.

  • Q&A: Liz Wolfe, Toronto

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    Q&A: Liz Wolfe, Toronto – Feature Shoot: Born in the Canadian prairies, Liz Wolfe studied photography at Ryerson University’s School of Image Arts in Toronto. Since starting out in 2004, Liz has become known for creating colorful, fantastical worlds out of everyday objects. In 2009, she exhibited her work at the Architecture + Design Museum…

  • PHOTOGRAPHER’S Q&A – JASON FRANSON

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    NPAC – News Photographers Association of Canada: I really like watching television. I’m going to be honest here. Multimedia bores me and I think it bores most readers; at least that’s what I figure by the low numbers of hits. I myself can’t make it past the one-minute mark on most projects, and this makes…

  • Lloyd Godman: Enlightened Visions

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    PHOTOGRAPHERS SPEAK – Lloyd Godman: Enlightened Visions: The adjective protean hardly seems adequate to describe the force of nature that is Lloyd Godman—photographer, organic gardener, environmental activist, educator, writer and visionary. The native New Zealander has for the past several decades produced numerous bodies of work that celebrate the power and mystery of nature while…

  • Interview with Brett Weston (1991)

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    AMERICANSUBURB X: INTERVIEW: “Interview with Brett Weston (1991)”: The son of Edward Weston and Flora Chandler, Brett Weston has produced a consistent and prolific body of astonishing images since 1925. He has utilized his energy and natural gifts for almost seven decades. A full sixty-eight years of uninterrupted endeavor, a prodigious span of sustained attention,…