Category: Interviews
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Michele McNally — Talk to the Newsroom
Michele McNally – NYTimes.com: Assistant Managing Editor Michele McNally, who oversees photography for The New York Times, is answering questions from readers June 22-26.
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Q&A: Angus Rowe MacPherson, Toronto
Feature Shoot: Angus Rowe MacPherson was born and raised in the tundra of the Canadian high arctic. He built a darkroom at eleven — commandeering one of the household bathrooms — so that he could print pictures of the world around him. He has been making pictures ever since. He moved to Toronto in 2004,…
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On Assignment: Covering Tehran – Lens Blog
On Assignment: Covering Tehran – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com: Newsha Tavakolian, a 28-year-old photographer who was born and raised in Tehran, has been covering Iran for Polaris Images since 2001 and has also worked as a freelancer for The Times since 2004.
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Andreas Gursky interviewed
FOTO8: In a rare interview Andreas Gursky talks to Guy Lane about an exhibition of his work in which many of his wall-sized prints are for the first time scaled down to modest proportions. viaConscientious
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CM Top 50: Damion Berger
Damion Berger: I had no idea about underwater photography to begin with but I found a used Nikonos in a shop nearby, bought a pair of swimming trunks to match the colour of the camera and started to spend day after day in different public pools, swimming around with the camera held tightly between my…
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Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Old Cameras New Attitude
A Photo Editor: I know what he’s doing may not seem extraordinarily radical to you, but these online media companies have been really slow to recognize the value of high quality photography in capturing an audience and bringing in advertising. That will change. I asked Timothy a couple questions.
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Perspective: Questions for Matt Mallams
voiceofsandiego.org: Today, we launch a new feature in Credentialed that we call “Perspective.” We’ll be regularly bringing you Q&A’s with talented local photographers in our community and featuring some of their work here. We kick off the feature with questions for Matt Mallams, a self-proclaimed “graphic documentary” photographer, who is consistently making waves in the…
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PHOTOGRAPHER’S Q&A – JONATHAN TAGGART
JONATHAN TAGGART – News Photographers Association of Canada: I was awarded a scholarship to a Magnum Workshop in Toronto in May of 2008, and while I was there I was fortunate enough to work with the Canadian photographer Larry Towell. I’ve always admired his work, but what I found most insightful was hearing him speak…
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Edward Sturr: Streetwise Visions
PHOTOGRAPHERS SPEAK: Chicago native Edward Sturr, whose 1960s images of the city are charged with an expressionist power comprised of angular compositions, bold contrasts and beguiling thematic irony. After moving to Kansas in 1974, Sturr taught photography for more than two decades at Kansas State University. While his personal work transitioned from gritty urban images…
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Photographers Looking For Agents – Q & A With Deborah Schwartz
A Photo Editor says: One of the top questions photographers ask me is “how do I get an agent” but since I’ve never been a photographer I really have no clue how you get an agent. Recently a photographer in LA with some nice work emailed me after getting zero response from the agents he’d…
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grain edit · Kevin Dart interview
Kevin Dart says: One of the best things about the internship was how closely I got to work with Harley Jessup, whose work had already had a big influence on me. The most valuable lesson I learned from him was how to get work done even on days where you don’t “feel it.” He made…
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Andreas Gefeller: Subjective Realities
PHOTOGRAPHERS SPEAK says: Düsseldorf-based photographer Andreas Gefeller deftly manipulates viewers’ perceptions of visual “truth” in discrete yet complementary series that reflect a multiplicity of themes and concerns—nuclear disasters, mankind’s environmental hegemony, and global transformations of public and personal space, to name but a few. In so doing, he reveals intellectual and spiritual truths about ourselves…
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An affordable new workshop is an incubator for emerging international photojournalists
RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog says: The Foundry Photojournalism Workshop began in 2008 when Eric Beecroft, a teacher and photographer, discovered a blank spot in the array of workshops being offered to photojournalists — one that emerging and international shooters could afford. He and his team organized the first Foundry in Mexico City and…
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Saddam's Palaces: An Interview with Richard Mosse
BLDGBLOG says: These extraordinary images—published here for the first time—show the imperial palaces of Saddam Hussein converted into temporary housing for the U.S military. Vast, self-indulgent halls of columned marble and extravagant chandeliers, surrounded by pools, walls, moats, and, beyond that, empty desert, suddenly look more like college dormitories. Weight sets, flags, partition walls, sofas,…
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Our red cloth na im be our guns
Daniel Alabrah of The Sun News On-line says: “Will you be willing to tell me your name?” I asked politely, smiling warmly. He responded almost immediately in pidgin English, laced with heavy Ijaw accent. “They call me Two-minute Fighter.” What a name, I muttered to myself, ready with the next question. “Why Two-minute Fighter?” I…
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Susan Burnstine: Between Worlds
PHOTOGRAPHERS SPEAK says: Finding the right camera to express one’s vision is a challenge that every photographer must deal with at some point. When conventional cameras proved unsatisfactory for Susan Burnstine, however, she simply decided to build her own in order to channel the haunting, dreamlike imagery that has won her widespread critical acclaim over…
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For photographers, pursuing passions always pays off
RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog says: Daniel Beltra has turned his passion for nature and his frequent work for Greenpeace into an award-winning career, including World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year International, National Press Photographers Association, and Lucies awards — he calls his recent success “a snowball.” We couldn’t help but ask what…
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Videos: New York Photo Festival Curators
PDN says: The New York Photo Festival is running through Sunday. On our PDNPulse blog, we are posting short video interviews with each of the four main curators
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Two Way Lens: Susan Wides
Susan Wides says: My photographs explore what I see and what it sparks in me– the way the physical phenomena of the world are experienced by the senses and imagination. Intuitive insights, states of awareness, and visual thinking – manifestations that exist only in fleeting perception are at the center of my work.