Category: Interviews
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Surfing Magazine Photographer Jeff Flindt Shoots the Curl!
Marc Silber says: As an avid surfer myself, if was especially fun interviewing Surfing Magazine’s Senior Staff photographer, Jeff Flindt
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Will Steacy – BOMBLog
BOMBLog says: Will Steacy is like the lovechild of Charles Bukowski and Dorothea Lange. I first saw his work when he won the Magenta Foundation Emerging Photographers Award. His writing drew me closer. The son of a Philadelphia reporter, he is the author of the first blog I was ever compelled to read in its…
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Q&A: Paul Sika, Cote d’Ivoire
Feature Shoot says: Fashion and advertising photographer, artist and creative director Paul Sika was featured in the 2007 summer edition of Olympus User Magazine UK. For this vibrant series, Sika created the environments using actors and carefully staged sets to convey a powerful social narrative.
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PHOTOGRAPHER’S Q&A – VERONICA HENRI
NPAC – News Photographers Association of Canada says: The Photographer’s Q&A focuses on Canadian photographers and visual journalists. This is an ongoing series posted every Monday. This week’s Q&A is with Veronica Henri, Sun Media.
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Matt Black: A Commitment to Truth
PHOTOGRAPHERS SPEAK says: I think that the collective understanding of this country is very superficial, and big parts of it are just left out, deemed unimportant. It’s not just about being unfair; it’s something that makes for the kind of places where things are allowed to fester. It’s a whole other world, an alternate America.…
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Saul Leiter: The Quiet Iconoclast
PHOTOGRAPHERS SPEAK says: No, they did not. My mother thought I could be a rabbi and still paint on the third floor. “Who would know?” she would say. My father thought photography was done by lowlifes. My family was very unhappy about my becoming a photographer—profoundly and deeply unhappy. That’s not what they wanted for…
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Krzysztof Pruszkowski: Photographing What Doesn’t Exist
PHOTOGRAPHERS SPEAK says: I created the “total vision” concept of Photosynthesis in opposition to the dogmatic concept of the “decisive moment” formed in the middle of the 20th century by Henri Cartier-Bresson. That aesthetic became the “canon obligatoire” in photography, and it also became a nice product for the export of French culture and lifestyle.…
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It Takes a Village Part I: Ingrid Spangler and Adoramapix
A Photography Blog. says: So as I was saying, a few ladies and I have put together a landscape show for the The New York Photo Festival. I’ve curated things before, but largely for an online arena, and let me tell you– there are a lot of details involved in a 17-person show. And you…
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whats the jackanory ? – this american youth
American Youth May Gallery – Images by Redux Pictures whats the jackanory says: To get our festival coverage started we approached Jasmine DeFoore the Director of Marketing for and producer of Redux Pictures American Youth book, which is being launched at the festival, for a bit of a Q&A
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Shooting a prince’s photo book to fight global deforestation
RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog says: Conservation photographer Daniel Beltrá was named the winner of The Prince’s Rainforests Project (PRP) Award on April 16 at this year’s Sony World Photography Awards Gala ceremony in Cannes, France. The award includes a three-month expedition to document threatened tropical rainforests in the Amazon, Africa, and Indonesia, all…
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Russian Youth, Prisons & the Icon: An Interview with Yana Payusova
From Prison Photography: Yana Payusova’s Russian Prison Series is a complex portrait with embedded cultural memes and fierce visual détournement. It is a strong and commited project. Russian Prisons Series, painted photographs of forgotten incarcerated Russian youth is Payusova’s most extensive use of photogaphy in her many series Check it out here
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chairman of the boards: ben baker
From whats the jackanory ?: I was leafing through the new edition of Fortune magazine the other day, the annual Fortune 500 issue to be specific. Amongst all the facts, figures, graphs and charts I was excited to see a massive photo spread with the directors of some of America’s largest companies from my old…
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Elizabeth Avedon
From A Photo Editor: I was corresponding with Elizabeth Avedon after I posted several pages from Rolling Stone Magazine’s seminal political photo essay “The Family” shot by Richard Avedon, because as it turns out Elizabeth was working in the photographer’s studio at the time designing the cover of the book “Portraits.” She was telling me…
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PHOTOGRAPHER’S Q&A – RYAN ENN HUGHES
From NPAC – News Photographers Association of Canada: The Photographer’s Q&A focuses on Canadian photographers and visual journalists. This is an ongoing series posted every Monday. This week’s Q&A is with Ryan Enn Hughes, who will be joining The Globe and Mail as its summer intern. Check it out here.
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Interview: Jürgen Chill: Zellen
From Prison Photography: Jürgen Chill’s Zellen photographs are a unique perspective upon prison space. Of all the positions in the cell, this floating light-fixture-eye-view should be the least claustrophobic, and yet, the central (physically impossible) high vantage point is dizzying. How does the camera (let alone cameraman) take up such a position? From here, what…
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Carry on up the Gulag: Interview with Seamus Murphy
From dvafoto: here’s “Carry on up the Gulag: Interview with Seamus Murphy” at Dispatches’ site. Murphy talks a bit about the process of photographing Russia Check it out here.
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Interview with photographer Timothy Archibald
From 100 Eyes: Around the time Elijah turn 5 we started making photographs together. I’d kind of initiate it with some direction, he’d do something that seemed unexpected…something I’d never have been able to think of…we’d look at the images together on the digital camera and try to refine them…try to improve them, try to…