Category: Interviews

  • Elisabeth Biondi In Conversation with Adriana Teresa, FotoVisura

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    Link: Categorizing photography is controversial. For example, the category of ‘photojournalism’, in my opinion, is an exceedingly narrow definition. It traditionally demanded that photography be defined as close to events as they unfolded avoiding interpretation. When I started working with GEO in the 70’s, it meant something extremely narrow and factual, and today we might,…

  • The Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund: Supporting Photographers Beyond the Media Map

    The Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund: Supporting Photographers Beyond the Media Map

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ As the EF announced the latest round of photographers it would be supporting, LightBox spoke to Magnum Foundation President and photographer Susan Meiselas who heads up the EF, about its mission, and the challenges facing documentary photography today.

  • INTERVIEW: Bruce Davidson Interviewed for ASX – “What you call a ….., I call my home.” (2011)

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    Link: If you look through my total number of my photographic work, you’ll see that a lot of it is intimate. I call it “outside to the inside”. I don’t photograph stories, my photographs take on a mood, and have a cumulative effect, but there isn’t a beginning a middle and an end. It’s not…

  • Shadowplay: An interview with Anton Corbijn

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    Link: Anton Corbijn has been at the top of his game as a photographer since the 1980s but, with two feature films under his belt, is establishing a reputation as a top-quality film director. Steven Pill meets the Dutch image maker.

  • Nick Onken Interview

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    Nick Onken Interview Rob: I need to get into the history of Nick Onken, tell me how it all started. Where are you from? How old are you and when did you get into photography? Nick: I’m 32 and from Seattle. I star… via A Photo Editor: https://aphotoeditor.com/2011/06/07/nick-onken-interview/ In my opinion it’s that realism that…

  • Q&A: Kevin WY Lee, Singapore

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    via Thomas Hawk Digital Connection |: https://thomashawk.com/2011/05/on-flickrs-change-in-data-retention-policy-and-twitters-new-photosharing-service.html I think this is great for a couple of reasons. First the leading player in the Twitter photo space twitpic is a total ripoff for photographers. When you use it you are giving them the right to sell your photos through some fine print in the TOS. Many…

  • Eddie Adams Workshop Q&A: Melissa Lyttle

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    via Thomas Hawk Digital Connection |: https://thomashawk.com/2011/05/on-flickrs-change-in-data-retention-policy-and-twitters-new-photosharing-service.html I think this is great for a couple of reasons. First the leading player in the Twitter photo space twitpic is a total ripoff for photographers. When you use it you are giving them the right to sell your photos through some fine print in the TOS. Many…

  • INTERVIEW: "Interview with Raymond Depardon" (2001)

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    via Thomas Hawk Digital Connection |: https://thomashawk.com/2011/05/on-flickrs-change-in-data-retention-policy-and-twitters-new-photosharing-service.html I think this is great for a couple of reasons. First the leading player in the Twitter photo space twitpic is a total ripoff for photographers. When you use it you are giving them the right to sell your photos through some fine print in the TOS. Many…

  • Success Stories: Harvey Stein

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    Link: I never imagined that going to Coney Island in 1970 to photograph, at the suggestion of my teacher at the time, Ben Fernandez, would ever result in going back for 40 years to shoot there. I’d call anyone either crazy or a genius for doing anything photographic that long. And I know I’m not…

  • How a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer captured emotional, physical wounds from gang violence

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    Link: The most authentic photographs tell untold stories, and they capture intimacy, depth and compassion. These are just a few of the words that come to mind when I think of Barbara Davidson‘s “Caught in the Crossfire” project, which led to the Los Angeles Times photographer to win this year’s Pulitzer Prize in feature photography.…

  • Kathy Ryan, thirty years of New York Times

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    Link: Kathy, can you describe in detail the content of your exhibition ? It is a view on the best photographs published in the New York Times Magazine for the last 30 years. The 11 different installations show magnificent images that attempt to reveal to the spectator the process of the publication of a photo…

  • Severin Koller: Revealing the Truth in Unforgettable Images

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    Link: I don’t think I’m looking for certain things. It is more the other way around, that something grabs my attention. There are times when my senses are totally focused on what’s going on around me, like someone just put me on a drug that intensifies everything. When I’m in that mode, many photos happen instinctively.…

  • Interview With Gallerist Sidney Monroe

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    Interview With Gallerist Sidney Monroe Contributor Jonathan Blaustein interviews Sidney Monroe owner of the Monroe Gallery in Santa Fe, NM. JB: How did you get involved in the business? SM: It was accidental, almost. After college, I wo… via A Photo Editor: https://aphotoeditor.com/2011/07/15/interview-with-gallerist-sidney-monroe/ Jonathan Blaustein interviews Sidney Monroe owner of the Monroe Gallery in Santa…

  • A CONVERSATION WITH GAVIN WATSON

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    Link: The images he’s collected for books like Skins & Punks and Raving ‘89 have shown how the smiling, glowering, gurning faces of British youth culture have stretched themselves across decades

  • Q&A: Lissy Laricchia, Toronto

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    Link: Lissy Laricchia is a Canadian photographer who is known for her surreal portraiture work. Working extensively with self portraiture, she combines photography and her imagination to create unique collections of composites that tell the dreamlike stories she imagines. From book and album covers to magazine ads, her unique style has inspired a growing number…

  • Pierrot Men: Poetry in Black and White

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    Link: Marian Nur Goni of Africultures had the chance to speak with Pierrot Men, a key figure in Madagascan photography and well beyond. He just published a monographic series retracing thirty years of work

  • Robert Seale Featured in Digital SLR Magazine

    Robert Seale Featured in Digital SLR Magazine

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    Robert Seale Featured in Digital SLR Magazine – Houston Tx Advertising Photographer Robert Seale Robert Seale Photography is an Advertising, Corporate, Commercial, Sports Portrait, Editorial, Oil and Gas, Industrial, and Annual Report Photography studio located in Houston Texas that works for Advertising, Corporate, Commercial, Editorial, Industrial, Oil and Gas, and Annual Report clients. Robert Seale…

  • Capozziello Interviewed by BJP and Daylight Magazine

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    Link: Christopher Capozziello: When I first began making pictures of Nick, he didn’t like it. In fact, very early on, after I had just graduated from college and was living at home, I made a picture of him waking up. He immediately punched me in the face and said he didn’t want me making pictures…

  • Leica & Magnum: Photographs from the Streets of Chicago by Alex Webb

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    Link: This photo essay, part of our collaboration with Magnum Photos, documents Alex Webb’s exploration of Chicago and the Loop. Inspired in part by one of his early influences, Ray Metzker’s “My Camera and I in the Loop,” he explores the streets of the US’s “Second City.”

  • Andrew Southam’s Personal Way Of Seeing

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    Andrew Southam’s Personal Way Of Seeing I worked with Andrew Southam quite a bit in the past, so when he told me about a personal journey he recently underwent, I asked to publish an account of it on the blog. I think you will find his h… via A Photo Editor: https://aphotoeditor.com/2012/03/21/andrew-southams-personal-way-of-seeing/ I worked with Andrew Southam quite…