Category: Interviews
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Behind The New York Times Magazine's Redesign with DD Arem Duplessis – Grids
Link: In June of this year, The New York Times unveiled a major redesign of their Sunday magazine, the first in almost a decade, and one of only a handful ever in its more than 100 years. Under the leadership of Design Director Arem Duplessis, a more lithe version of the magazine (smaller by about…
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APhoBlo Interview: Erin Nicole Johnson! | A Photography Blog
Link: Today we have an interview with Erin Nicole Johnson, a photographer I find really thoughtful and funny and interesting. I think you will too. read read read. look look look.
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Wonderful Machine » Haiti From Our Photographer’s Eyes
Link: My arrival in Haiti was shocking…the amount of people in the streets, people wandering around wounded from the earthquake (broken limbs, open head wounds etc.)…people were now living on the streets for fear of another earthquake or due to the loss of their homes.
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AMERICANSUBURB X: INTERVIEW: "Monkeys Make the Problem More Difficult – A Collective Interview with Garry Winogrand" (1970)
Link: Garry Winogrand (1928- ) spent two days in Rochester, New York, in October, 1970. On Friday, the 9th, he was the guest of the Rochester Institute of Technology. On Saturday, the 10th, he visited the Visual Studies Workshop, also in Rochester. The format was identical on both occasions: Winogrand, without comment, showed slides of…
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The Visual Student » Two of a Kind, Photographer Couples: Jenn Ackerman and Tim Gruber
Link: This is first part of a series about photographer couples, called “Two of a Kind.” Part one features Jenn Ackerman and Tim Gruber.
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Q&A: Mark Leong, Beijing
Link: ‘In any case, the subject was very fresh to me, exciting but also daunting because of the massive scale and steep learning curve (of which I’m still somewhere down near the foot). There has already been some good photo reportage on the trade, so when my editor Kathy Moran and I mapped out our…
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AMERICAN SUBURB X: INTERVIEW: "Extending the Frame: An Interview with Susan Meiselas" (2006)
Link: As for “new documentary,” I find some of these approaches of interest, particularly the focus on a more distanced “aftermath,” rather than “decisive” moments of engagement. I still feel the dividing line is when photographers re-enact, which is closer to the tradition of docudrama than reportage. Sometimes it is very effective but defining the…
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Week 56: Daniel Puissant
Link: For as long as I can remember I have always noticed the small shifts in reality, things that don’t readily register as incongruous or shocking, but rather the things that make me smile or think about how people function. I would constantly tell whomever is standing next to me: did you see this? there,…
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Dossier Journal » Ryan McGinley Interview
Link: This Thursday, Ryan McGinley will have his third solo show at Team Gallery. An exhibition of new work, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, will run from March 18 through April 17 and will be accompanied by a monograph published by Dashwood Book. David Strettell, the book’s publisher (also, of course, the owner of the…
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Combat Photography, Wounded Warriors & The Long Wait for Help – A Picture's Worth
Link: We caught up with PhotoShelter member Stacy Pearsall last week at the 2010 D.C. Shoot Off. Stacy is a retired Air Force Staff Sergeant and two-time winner of the Military Photographer of the Year award. She did three tours of duty in Iraq.
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Idurre Alonso (Curator, MoLAA): In Conversation – The New York Photo Festival
Link: IA: Since photography in Latin America encompasses all types of aesthetics including documentary, conceptual and experimental formats, among others, heterogeneity is probably its only unifying element. What is clear to me is that Latin American photography moves in multiple ways; in some instances the works reflect the contextual realities of their site production while…
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Tips for Starting A Photo Career in an Unlikely Location – The Photoletariat
Link: Andrew Spear is a freelance photographer living in Southeast Ohio. What’s intriguing is without any sort of internship , Andrew has already established himself in a crowded industry, all while still being a full time student. At only 21 years old and a month from graduating from the School of Visual Communication at Ohio…
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Talking to…Photographer Daniele Tamagni
Talking to…Photographer Daniele Tamagni Milan-based photographer Daniele Tamagni’s book “Gentlemen of Bacongo” features the pageantry of Congalese sapeurs, or dandies – a subculture of men who pay extreme attention to, and take great pri… Link: https://boywithgrenade.org/2010/05/06/talking-to-photographer-daniele-tamagni/ Milan-based photographer Daniele Tamagni’s book “Gentlemen of Bacongo” features the pageantry of Congalese sapeurs, or dandies – a subculture of men who pay extreme attention…
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Adrian Valenzuela does the Derby. | A Photography Blog
Link: I planned on lighting the rink with multiple lights but quickly learned that Roller Rinks built way back when don’t have electrical codes of today. The only available outlet I found was at a DJ booth pretty far from the track. I was only able to use one light that night, but it was…
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Conscientious Extended | A Conversation with Yann Gross
Link: Almost everybody wants to belong to a group or a family and share their daily life activities/experiences. To define their own identities is important for every human being and to be part of a community is universal… I’m interested how people interact and behave in a group, the use of symbols or dress codes.
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VII Photo's Ed Kashi: "We must change the way we consume" – British Journal of Photography
Link: Ed Kashi, who has just joined the prestigious VII Photo agency, talks to BJP about his six-year foray into the complexity of the Niger Delta
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Passion and Personal Photo Projects with Nick Vedros – A Picture's Worth
Link: As we pack our bags (complete with extra wet naps for a little bbq) and put the finishing touches on the event details with the folks at Digital Labrador, we thought we’d take a moment to check in with the man behind our day two shoot, Canon Explorer of Light Nick Vedros. What’s he…
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Stanley Greene’s Redemption and Revenge – Lens
Stanley Greene’s Redemption and Revenge In his pictures and his words, Stanley Greene is outspoken. Michael Kamber interviewed this freewheeling figure. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/22/shoptalk-7/ I wanted to set the record straight. I kept hearing people say, “Chechnya was when you really started to be a photographer.” And that’s not true. I was shooting back…
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INTERVIEW: "Interview with Bruce Jackson" (2009)
Link: Bruce Jackson was first drawn to work in prisons during the folk revival of the 1960s. Inspired by folk music collectors like the Lomaxes, he set out to capture work songs sung by African-American convicts, going first to Midwestern prisons when he was a graduate student in Indiana, and later to Texas state prisons…