Category: Interviews
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Q&A: Damon Winter on Covering Obama
Less than two years after joining The New York Times staff, and having never covered a presidential campaign before, Damon Winter won instant praise from fellow photographers for his photos of Barack Obama’s historic run for president. Check it out here.
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Wandering Light: Eyemazing
Kevin German Outside the Rings My work from the Olympics was published in the quarterly Netherlands magazine Eyemazing today. Eyemazing was recently awarded the Lucie Award for Photography Magazine of the Year. Below is the interview that was published along with the 12 pages that featured my work. Check it out here.
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Q&A: Gregory Garry, Former Radar Magazine DOP
Gregory Garry has seen a few magazines come and go. He was photo director for Budget Living (folded 2005), Weekend (folded 2006) and Radar (folded 2008). At Radar, Garry oversaw the wacky celebrity photo-illustration covers that earned the magazine a reputation for satire and snark. Garry had the good luck to leave Budget Living and…
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Editing And Impact In "Big" Photography Blogs
We asked WSJ director of photography Jack Van Antwerp, “The Big Picture” editor Alan Taylor, and “Captured” editor Meghan Lynden to describe their editing processes. Check it out here.
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A Photo Editor – Trunk Archive – Ultra High End Stock
When I heard about Trunk Archive (website here) last February and saw the list of photographers who’s work they represented I thought how great this will be for photo editors and art buyers to source and use high end imagery. I had the opportunity to talk with Matt Moneypenny the President and CEO of Trunk…
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A Photo Editor – Jeff Riedel’s Massive GQ Photo Essay
I was floored when I picked up the November issue of GQ and saw in it a 32 page photo essay (online here) shot by one photographer. That’s major. There are very few photographers getting 32 pages in magazines all to themselves these days (anytime actually) and a photo essay of this magnitude is a…
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Bucking the Trend – The Digital Journalist
Joshua Wolfe and five colleagues who also concentrate on the environment have created a new agency to handle their work called GHG Photos. Obviously not the greatest time to start a new photo agency, I have a sense that they said, why not now when the mood moves us? I recently conducted an e-mail interview…
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An exclusive interview with Henry Wilhelm – The Luminous Landscape
In the late Summer of 2008 I interviewed Henry Wilhelm, the world’s preeminent authority on print permanence and the founder of Wilhelm Imaging Research. This interview was conducted on behalf of Epson, to be used as part of their 2008/2009 Epson Print Academy. The clip used by Epson was edited down to 14 minutes for…
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dvafoto – Interview: Matt Slaby and David Walter Banks photograph the 2008 Democratic and Republican National Conventions
For our next dvafoto interview, we’re talking to Matt Slaby and David Walter Banks, both of the new collective Luceo Images. I got to know the two and their work through the excellent APhotoADay email list, and consider them among my favorite young photographers. Matt Slaby’s got one of the most contemplative approaches I’ve seen…
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A conversation with Alex Webb about InSight America – Magnum
On the eve of the election, a number of Magnum photographers have been venturing into American to capture what they can of this historic moment in time. The project is called InSight America. But rather than publish this work as a book a year after the fact, Magnum is posting the work online and on…
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Interview: Sam Abell And The Life Of A Photograph
Abell built a three-decade career as a field photographer for National Geographic based on the lessons he learned from his father and a way of making photographs that he evolved along the way. Abell spoke with PDN from his home in Charlottesville, Virginia, about his work for National Geographic, the way he shoots photographs, and…
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Aaron Ruell — Lost At E Minor: For creative people
He may have played Kipland Ronald Dynamite (Kip) in Napoleon Dynamite, but Californian photographer Aaron Ruell is much more comfortable behind the camera. We interviewed him recently Check it out here.
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Videopia.org – Two Interviews with Vincent Laforet!
Here’s a little Q&A Jeff Whitley (JW) with Vincent Laforet (VL) about his short montage Reverie, shot in a few days with a pre-release Canon EOS 5D MKII. Check it out here.
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Photos capture people behind the president
Whoever the president may be, he says, the “presidential persona and his message are created, manipulated and disseminated by local and national news media, the White House administration and staff . . . aides, interns and the president’s constituency.” It’s those people Chris Usher photographed for “Behind the Velvet Rope,” his exhibit that’s currently running…
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Brian Skerry — National Geographic Magazine
Photograph by Brian Skerry I’ve been diving for about 30 years, and I can honestly say that I’ve had some amazing encounters with sharks, squids, and other whales. But the encounter with the right whales in the Auckland Islands was probably the best thing I’ve ever done. It was just that amazing. Check it out…
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B: An Interview with Dan Price
Dan Price is the author of Moonlight Chronicles, a journal of his life which he has been hand drawing and distributing since the early 90s. Before that he worked as a photojournalist for numerous newspapers and was perhaps the only staff photographer in the country to regularly use Diana cameras on assignment Check it out…
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A Conversation with Andreas Gefeller (Conscientious)
Andreas Gefeller is a German photographer well known for his series Supervisions, which pushes the boundaries of photography by elevating the view point off the ground. I have been extremely interested in Andreas’ work for a long time, and I recently had the chance to talk to him about it. Check it out here.
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DOUBLE CROSS: BJ Papas – NYHC Photographer
BJ Papas may be the most legendary photographer of NYHC. Pretty cool considering the bad rap hardcore has always gotten for the lack of female involvement. Seemingly elusive and interview-shy despite still photographing bands and being connected to the scene which she grew up in, we were psyched as hell to be able to chat…
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A Photo Editor – The Next Generation Of Photo Editors
I think the way clients and photographers communicate and reach each other and the job of Photo Editor will profoundly change in the next decade. There’s exciting technology to take advantage of and the potential of the internet has barely been tapped by publishers. I wanted to start talking with .com and junior Photo Editors…
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A Conversation with Peter Granser (Conscientious)
When I received a review copy of Peter Granser’s Signs in the mail, I had quite a few questions about the work. And since I had always admired his earlier work about Alzheimer patients, I asked Peter whether he would be up for a conversation. Check it out here.