Category: Interviews
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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…
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Q&A: Martin Parr on Brighton Photo Biennial – British Journal of Photography
Link: Martin Parr talks about his latest discoveries, on show in Brighton. In the Q&A with BJP’s editor, he also discusses the international photography scene, and explains why the UK is “handicapped”.
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Personal Projects: Stephen Voss talks about his “91 Days” project | dvafoto
Link: Stephen Voss, a photographer based in the Washington DC area, announced a personal project earlier this year called 91 Days. For the 91 days of spring he would make one 4×5 instant picture a day in his backyard and send it to those who sent in an email asking to reserve a day.
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FEAR, DESIRE, DRUGS AND F***ING – Photographer Antoine D’Agata Lives a Life Less Ordinary – Vice Magazine
Link: Antoine D’Agata is a contentious character in the worlds of photography and art. Signed up by the Magnum photo agency in the period when they started to realise there was little money in photojournalism, his work’s brutal and self-destructive content has a habit of upsetting people.
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The Trials and Tribulations of a Commercial Photographer in Austin – A Picture's Worth
Link: Following on the heels of my interview with Darren Carroll about using his iPad to supplement his printed portfolio, I asked him about the difficulties of living in Austin while trying to build more of a commercial business — and while most of the clients he’d like to work with are sitting on the…
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Conscientious Extended | A Conversation with CPC 2010 Winner Oksana Yushko
Link: I currently live in Moscow. It’s a huge metropolis. Living here you get used to people, speed, vanity, the subway… Do you know that the subway is a whole individual city of people inside Moscow? And when you come to any village in the north of Russia, like Kenozero, you meet the silence. There,…
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A Moment With Larry Fink – NYTimes.com
Link: The moment that we have is the only moment we will ever have, insofar as it is fleeting. Every breath counts. So does every moment and perception. It’s a way to be alive. I am involved with the idea of reaching deeply into the pulsing matter of what it means to be alive and…
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Cairo Photographer Sees Hope in Turmoil: Scott Nelson Tells What It's Like – NYTimes.com
Cairo Photographer Sees Hope in Turmoil Scott Nelson, who has been in Cairo for a decade, finds reason for very cautious optimism in the events that have upended his adopted home. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/cairo-photographer-sees-hope-in-turmoil/ Scott Nelson, 40, is a freelance photographer who works regularly for The New York Times. He’s from Denver but has…
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Nadav Kander by Thomas Erber | La Lettre de la Photographie
Link: Nadav Kander is exhibiting together with Robert Polidori at Camera Work in Berlin. For La Lettre, Thomas Erber talked to him about his award winning series Yangtze – The Long River and the importance of exhibiting.
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Cairo Photographer Sees Hope in Turmoil: Scott Nelson Tells What It's Like – NYTimes.com
Cairo Photographer Sees Hope in Turmoil Scott Nelson, who has been in Cairo for a decade, finds reason for very cautious optimism in the events that have upended his adopted home. via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/cairo-photographer-sees-hope-in-turmoil/ Scott Nelson, 40, is a freelance photographer who works regularly for The New York Times. He’s from Denver but has…
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On The Front Lines in Cairo with Photojournalist Matthew Cassel – A Picture's Worth | PhotoShelter
Link: Things are changing fast in Egypt right now, and freelance photographer and journalist Matthew Cassel is experiencing it head-on. Cassel, who has been living and traveling throughout the Middle East since the age of 21 and speaks near fluent Arabic, is covering the events as they unfold in and around Cairo’s Tahrir Square.
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Even the Middle Ground Is Perilous in Cairo: Nine Photographers Describe Their Experience – NYTimes.com
Link: Photographers of the increasingly violent upheaval in Egypt are being forced — in the interest of personal safety — to adopt practices that limit their range of coverage at exactly the moment the world is hungriest for as many images from as many perspectives as possible. According to interviews on Thursday with nine photojournalists…
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Misha Erwitt: Street Smart « The Leica Camera
Link: A native New Yorker, Misha Erwitt grew up around photography and some of the best photographers in the world and was incurably bitten by the photography bug. After a career that includes an 11-year stint as a staffer for the New York Daily News and a three-year association with Magnum shooting internationally, this brilliant…
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Tim Hetherington speaks to Jon Levy
via digitalcameraworld: https://www.digitalcameraworld.com Reporter, documentarian, artist, film maker or visual communicator? Tim Hetherington seems comfortable in all of these guises…
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A Photo Editor – Nina Berman Interview
Nina Berman Interview Jonathan Blaustein interviews Nina Berman for us: JB: I was in New York in June, and I had a meeting at the Whitney with a curator and I had about 15 minutes to kill, so they let me go upstairs to … via A Photo Editor: https://aphotoeditor.com/2011/03/07/nina-berman-interview/ Has it made the world…
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Square Magazine
Link: It’s no secret that I am drawn to the square format. I shoot with a Hassleblad, a twin lens Rolleiflex, a Holga and Diana. I recently purchased a Mamiya 7ii but haven’t fully welcomed it into the fold. So when I see square images, especially stunning ones, it makes me very happy. The other…
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Conversations about Photobooks: Lesley Martin
Link: Aperture has long been a – maybe the – beacon of American photobook publishing. It’s pretty much impossible to talk about photobooks without at some stage running into a book that was done by Aperture. Lesley Martin, Publisher of the Aperture Book Program, has worked on a huge number of those books, often pushing…
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From a Bubble, 'Sneaking Little Moments'
From a Bubble, ‘Sneaking Little Moments’ Moises Saman has been in a press pool in Libya covering those loyal to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi for more than a month. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/05/from-a-bubble-sneaking-little-moments/ Moises Saman’s work and words have been featured on Lens 17 times since he was assaulted by tthe police in Tunisia in January.…