Tag: Sam Abell

  • Sam Abell Interview

    Sam Abell Interview – A Photo Editor Jonathan Blaustein: Are you still in love with photography, or has it gotten boring after all these years? Sam Abell: That’s a good question. I was asked by a student what my most significant accomplishment was at National Geographic, after thirty years, via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2013/09/04/sam-abell-interview/ It’s…

  • The Sam Abell Library: Life and Still Life

    The Sam Abell Library: Life and Still Life

    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/01/28/the-sam-abell-library-life-and-still-life/#1 “His process is built on the virtue of patience. He looks for structure in a scene, starting almost with a still-life. He dwells on the parts and composes meticulously. Then he waits. Minutes, days, weeks he waits, coming and going for…

  • 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…