Category: Interviews

  • Chase Jarvis Blog: Interview Central.

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    If you’re not already sick of my yapping, you might just be after this. I wanted to share with you three interviews I’ve recently given: Check it out here.

  • Peter Yang: A Powerhouse of Portraits :: Photocritic photography blog

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    A regular contributor to Rolling Stone, Wired, and ESPN Magazine, young photographer Peter Yang emerged out of the Austin journalism world and hit the ground running full-force with his masterfully lit, intimate portraits of political figures, actors, rock stars and cowboys. Check it out here.

  • My Nose, Your Business. Talking with Aaron Kupferman. – A Picture's Worth

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    Aaron Kupferman started a company called Motorsport Lens, and is one of the many people who have made great use of the ‘Personal Use’ download option within PhotoShelter. He spends many of his weekends shooting images during “amateur track day” events, where normal people get to take their cars for a spin on a real…

  • Fake Chuck Westfall Gets Under Canon’s Skin | Black Star Rising

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    Q: What inspired you to create the Fake Chuck Westfall blog? A: I noticed that Canon has a problem with honestly, effectively and clearly communicating with customers. And sooner or later, if they didn’t fix that problem, someone was going to fix it for them. And it looks like I’m the first to step up…

  • A Conversation with Mikhael Subotzky (Conscientious)

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    Mikhael Subotzky is one of Magnum’s youngest and newest members, and his first book Beaufort West was one of my favourite photography books last year. I got interested in talking to Mikhael after seeing the book and reading a comment he had left on Magnum’s blog, under a post about photojournalism. Check it out here.

  • Interview: BEN LOWY

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    Benjamin Lowy received a BA from Washington University in St. Louis in 2002 and began his career covering the Iraq War in 2003. Since then he has covered major stories in Afghanistan, Darfur, Haiti, Indonesia, and Libya among others. In 2004 Lowy attended the World Press Joop Swart Masterclass and was nominated for the ICP…

  • Post-Punk’s Visual Chronicler: Interview with Laura Levine

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    Laura Levine’s work is too varied and voluminous to be hemmed in to one particular time, scene, or discipline — the bio on her website rightfully describes her as a “cross-disciplinary visual artist” — but I’m assuming many readers of this site discovered her work the same way I did: via her photography in the…

  • Paul Morse: From newspapers, to the White House, and beyond

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    Paul Morse, nicknamed “Pablo” by President George W. Bush, is a Washington, D.C. based photographer. He worked at the White House as Deputy Director of Photography from 2001 until 2007. Prior to the White House, Paul worked  at the Los Angeles Times as a staff photographer for six years, covering sports, news, and the entertainment…

  • I Am Jesus – ThankGod Chukwuma

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    If you are a believer of the prophecies in the Christians holy writ, then we are indeed in the end time. Barely two months ago, Sunday Sun exclusively reported the story of a man in Lagos, who claims to be Christ’s only viceroy on earth, revealing the unpleasant happenings in his enclave. Yet, before our…

  • Marsea Goldberg of New Image Art

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    Marsea Goldberg is the owner of New Image Art gallery in Los Angeles. For 15 years she has been showing the work of some very notable artists and is an important part of the history of this as-of-yet-unnamed art movement. I met her in 2000 and New Image Art became one of the first galleries…

  • Bush gives fist bump as farewell to official photographer

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    Eric Draper spent the last eight years alongside George W. Bush as the chief White House photographer. Draper, 44, who had covered the 2000 campaign for The Associated Press, took the White House from film to digital as he met world leaders and mixed it up with Britian’s Prince Philip. He also received an unexpected…

  • Andrew Hetherington, New York

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    You have recently self-published the photography book, A Room With A View. What made you decide to show the work in this way? ‘I decided from the get go that this was going to be a long-term project. I had been shooting it for three years and just kept filing the negs away before I…

  • Two Way Lens: Amy Stein

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    Today I find inspiration in everything. It could be a song, a painting or a parking lot in Queens. I feel very confident as an artist and want to explore everything. I am not interested in being pigeonholed by concept, format, subject or process. I will go wherever my curiosity and inspiration takes me. In…

  • Interview: Donald Weber, inside the Imperium

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    we’re talking to photographer Donald Weber who is based in Eastern Europe and is with the VII Network Check it out here.

  • Tim Hussin interview – Part A

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    For one, I physically get close to my subjects. I tend to shoot more wide-angle photos. I really try to develop a rapport with the people I’m around when I’m shooting. It lends itself to being able to capture the more intimate moments that would seem like the photographer is invisible. Check it out here.…

  • Reza: Bearing Witness To War And Peace : NPR

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    Reza Deghati is considered among the world’s great photojournalists. He has traveled the globe for nearly 30 years, bearing witness to wars, unrest, great leaders and the courage of ordinary people trapped by history. He has won countless awards, working for publications such as National Geographic, Newsweek and Time. Check it out here.

  • "Either Dusk or Dawn": An Interview with Alec Soth

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    Alec Soth unveiled The Last Days of W., his first foray into self-publishing, at Paris Photo this fall. A collection of images he’s created over the last eight years, the 48-page artist’s book was printed on newsprint and priced at $17 in what he says was a nod to the current economic crisis. Soth also…

  • Interview: JOSH RITCHIE

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    Josh Ritchie is a freelance photographer based in South Florida. After graduating from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, several successful internships and being a staff photographer in Virginia, Pennsylvania and Illinois, Josh decided to take the leap into the freelance world. One fateful day after several long conversations with a close friend Josh decided he…

  • jackanory films presents . . . .

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    Our first effort an interview with Benjamin Lowy on his epic foray in to the fashion world for New York Magazine’s Look, their bi-annual fashion spectacular. Check it out here.

  • A Photo Editor – Chris Buck Interview

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    “I think there’s a certain arrogance that goes with wanting to do something like this.” That’s Chris Buck telling me what it takes to become a photographer; it’s one of many astute insights he had when I talked to him on the phone several weeks ago. Check it out here.