(318) Leica Conversations: EXPLORING SUBCULTURES with Robert LeBlanc – YouTube:
A Conversation with Robert LeBlanc and former LIFE editor-in-chief Bill Shapiro
Category: Interviews
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(318) Leica Conversations: EXPLORING SUBCULTURES with Robert LeBlanc – YouTube
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Photographers on Photographers: Suzanne T. White in Conversation with Roger Ballen – LENSCRATCH
Photographers on Photographers: Suzanne T. White in Conversation with Roger Ballen – LENSCRATCH
We are re-running this post from last year, enjoy! Roger Ballen generously took the time to speak with me via Zoom from South Africa. It was truly an honor to interview him as I have been a fan of his for a long time. His work reaches into the psyche, it is deeply disturbing while
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/08/photographers-on-photographers-suzanne-t-white-in-conversation-with-roger-ballen/
It is this issue of core versus experience. The core isn’t enough to be able to take great photographs – it is 50 something years of building on an aesthetic – you learn from this aesthetic. It helps you to create other aesthetics. If you don’t do the work, then you don’t go anywhere.
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Photographers on Photographers: Drew Leventhal in Conversation with Carolyn Drake – LENSCRATCH
Photographers on Photographers: Drew Leventhal in Conversation with Carolyn Drake – LENSCRATCH
We are re-running this conversation from 2023. Enjoy! My time talking with Carolyn Drake was a fever dream in the best possible way. Talking with artists who inspire you and make you want to work harder can be very intimidating. I know I was extremely nervous when we started our conversation. But Carolyn had this way
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/08/photographers-on-photographers-drew-leventhal-in-conversation-with-carolyn-drake/
I have always found moments of frustration with photography and the desire to come at things from another angle. I feel like there are things photography can’t do or there are aspects of photography that I want to reject or rebel against. And you know, there’s also burnout. Posing another question for you: I would wonder if/how you experience similar frustrations and how you handle them?
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Photographers on Photographers: Chloe Dichter in conversation with Meggan Gould – LENSCRATCH
Photographers on Photographers: Chloe Dichter in conversation with Meggan Gould – LENSCRATCH
Photographers on Photographers is our annual August effort where we ask photographers (including the Top 25 Winners of the 2023 Student Prize Awards) to interview an artist or mentor that has impacted or inspired their practice. When I started my MFA studies at the University of New Mexico in 2022 I had the pleasure of
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2024/08/photographers-on-photographers-chloe-dichter-in-conversation-with-meggan-gould/
I don’t romanticize the darkroom. I have a fair bit of negativity towards it. At the same time that I’m making a miniature version of one and photographing them like crazy, there’s so much to love about it but it’s loaded.
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B: Q & A with Jesse Lenz
Q & A with Jesse Lenz
Jesse Lenz is a photographer based in rural Ohio, and the founding director of Chico Review , Charcoal Press , and Charcoal Book Club . • B…
Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2024/06/jesse-lenz-is-photographer-based-in-and.html
The Chico Review is the opposite of that. Only people making the work get in. It’s not about writing an essay, checking the right boxes, or anything. It’s about the photographs. Additionally, the way it’s set up helps it from getting stagnant because it’s a limited time, it costs money so you feel you gotta make the most of it, and you want to stand out so you gotta bring your A game. The “photo ghetto” is pickup basketball. The Chico Review are tryouts.
http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2024/06/jesse-lenz-is-photographer-based-in-and.html
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A Conversation with Thana Faroq | Conscientious Photography Magazine
A Conversation with Thana Faroq
via Conscientious Photography Magazine: https://cphmag.com/conv-thana-faroq/
That’s also why I struggle to exhibit the work. It needs to be seen as a book because a collection of photographs on the wall doesn’t do it. You need to see it as this package with the poor images, the imperfect, the perfect. With that packaging I feel satisfied that I communicated what I needed to communicate. But there will be more. It’s to be continued. It’s happening. It’s still coming for me. I haven’t said everything.
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photo-eye | BLOG: photo-eye Conversations with David Emitt Adams and Jamey Stillings
photo-eye Conversations with David Emitt Adams and Jamey Stillings
photo-eye Gallery photo-eye Conversations with David Emitt Adams and Jamey Stillings photo-eye Gallery In honor of the cl…
Link: https://blog.photoeye.com/2024/02/photo-eye-conversations-with-david.html
In honor of the closing of Reshaping the Earth: Energy and the Environment, an exhibition featuring photographs by Jamey Stillings and David Emitt Adams, we are pleased to share a recent segment of photo-eye Conversations LIVE with David and Jamey. Below the video, are a few installation shots if you haven’t visited the gallery yet.
https://blog.photoeye.com/2024/02/photo-eye-conversations-with-david.html
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As Wars Rage in the Middle East, Anti-war Photographer Don McCullin Discusses “How Futile Violence Is” | Vanity Fair
As Wars Rage in the Middle East, Anti-war Photographer Don McCullin Discusses “How Futile Violence Is”
The dean of conflict photography assesses the power of images—and his fellow image makers.
via Vanity Fair: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/don-mccullin-on-war
Recently, photojournalist Mark Edward Harris sat down with McCullin to discuss his oeuvre, their fellow photographers, and conflicts past and present. (On assignment for Vanity Fair, Harris has covered North Korea as well as the aftermath of both the 2011 Japanese tsunami and the 2015 earthquake in Nepal.)
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The Inside Story of Josef Koudelka’s Groundbreaking Career
The Inside Story of Josef Koudelka’s Groundbreaking Career
Melissa Harris speaks about working with the renowned photographer on his visual biography, “Josef Koudelka: Next.”
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/the-inside-story-of-josef-koudelkas-groundbreaking-career/
Josef loves a challenge, a visual challenge. He had not really worked in this way before, where there had to be a clear relationship between text and image.
https://aperture.org/editorial/the-inside-story-of-josef-koudelkas-groundbreaking-career/
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B: Q & A with Kathryn McCool
Q & A with Kathryn McCool
Kathryn McCool is a photographer based in Castlemaine, Australia, and the author of the recent photobook P.North . • BA: Congrats on P.Nort…
Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2023/09/q-with-kathryn-mccool.html
Kathryn McCool is a photographer based in Castlemaine, Australia, and the author of the recent photobook P.North.
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Photographers on Photographers: Zachary Kaufman in Conversation with Matt Eich – LENSCRATCH
Photographers on Photographers: Zachary Kaufman in Conversation with Matt Eich – LENSCRATCH
Matt Eich is a tenacious storyteller, whose work is largely defined by long-term projects that offer intimate depictions of the American condition. I first saw Matt’s photographs as a featured alumni on the Eddie Adams Workshop site in 2006. At that time,
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/08/photographers-on-photographers-zachary-kaufman-in-conversation-with-matt-eich/
Matt Eich: You are right that the photographer dance is a tricky one – how to be emotionally engaged and present while also removed enough to see things clearly and render a scene in a lasting way? I advocate for young photographers getting to know their tools the way a musician knows their instrument. When it comes time to make, you don’t want to be caught up in the technical, you want to be in a somewhat Zen state, so the camera is less of a barrier between you and what is unfolding and more of a conduit for channeling a shared experience. This is idealistic, but occasionally comes to fruition.
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Reagan Louie on Surviving the American Dream
Reagan Louie on Surviving the American Dream
The photographer once believed that he had to turn his back on his Chinese culture. Today, his images embrace authenticity.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/reagan-louie-on-surviving-the-american-dream/
As I’ve talked about, I didn’t know why I had gone back to China. And there were awkward silences with the curator when the conversation veered away from formal aesthetic issues. At one point, I remember I was trying to talk about my feelings, to try to communicate what was at stake for me. The curator was dismissive. He said he didn’t care about my feelings, only his. It just shut down that conversation. I was really pondering whether I had what it took to be an artist. I was really dejected after that encounter. I tried to step away from art and tried to quit. I applied to business school. I was convinced I didn’t measure up. And I was also tired of always being in debt.
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Photographers on Photographers: Suzanne T. White in Conversation with Roger Ballen – LENSCRATCH
Photographers on Photographers: Suzanne T. White in Conversation with Roger Ballen – LENSCRATCH
Roger Ballen generously took the time to speak with me via Zoom from South Africa. It was truly an honor to interview him as I have been a fan of his for a long time. His work reaches into the psyche, it is deeply disturbing while also embracing the absur
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/08/photographers-on-photographers-suzanne-t-white-in-conversation-with-roger-ballen/
Well, see I’ve never really thought of it as a profession. Rather, it is the creative process, which is automatic and ritualistic, like brushing my teeth. I don’t think about how I should or shouldn’t do it or why I am doing it.
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Ready for Surprise: Joel Meyerowtiz Interview 2020 – Photographs by Joel Meyerowitz | Interview by Jim Casper | LensCulture
Ready for Surprise: Joel Meyerowtiz Interview 2020 – Photographs by Joel Meyerowitz | Interview by Jim Casper | LensCulture
The pioneering master of color street photography talks about his passions and the energy of the street in this wide-ranging audio interview
via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/joel-meyerowitz-ready-for-surprise-joel-meyerowtiz-interview-2020
Yeah, I don’t have a strategy when I go out. I’ve learned over all these years that you can plan, but you can’t plan the outcome. You just say, I’m going out. You know, I’m going to go take a walk on Regent Street, or I’m going to go to Soho, or I’m going to go somewhere because I haven’t been there and I’d like to see what it feels like to me.
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Arko Datto | Kings of a Bereft Land
Arko Datto: Kings of a Bereft Land
Arko Datto speaks with curator Willemijn van der Zwaan about Kings of a Bereft Land currently on display at Photomuseum The Hague, the Netherlands.
via 1000 Words: https://www.1000wordsmag.com/arko-datto/
Arko Datto speaks with Willemijn van der Zwaan about Kings of a Bereft Land currently on display at Photomuseum The Hague, the Netherlands. They discuss the challenges of portraying the psychological effects of the ongoing planetary crisis, creating hyper-structures for multiple projects and the fundamental role of the artist in altering perception and shifting viewpoints by proposing new ways of seeing.
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Photographers on Photographers: Marisa Lucchese in coversation with Isadora Kosofsky – LENSCRATCH
Photographers on Photographers: Marisa Lucchese in coversation with Isadora Kosofsky – LENSCRATCH
Early in my undergraduate studies in photography, I discovered Isadora Kosofsky’s work, and I immediately wrote her name down as a source of inspiration. Her use of light, the intimacy she captured, the clear care for her subjects that radiated from the i
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/03/isadora-kosofsky/
Early in my undergraduate studies in photography, I discovered Isadora Kosofsky’s work, and I immediately wrote her name down as a source of inspiration. Her use of light, the intimacy she captured, the clear care for her subjects that radiated from the images… it was all encompassing of the photographer I hoped I would one day become. When I got the chance to meet her this past year as she gave a lecture at my university, I could feel the excitement flowing through my veins at the prospect of hearing her talk about her work and showing her my own. When I was asked to contribute to the Photographers on Photographers, I knew that I wanted to continue the conversations that had begun earlier this year, especially as I have recently graduated and am entering the art world. It felt like a perfect full circle moment, and I hope this conversation can benefit other young photographers as it has for me.
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A Big-Wave Photographer Faces Frigid Water, Sharks and Currents to Get the Shot – The New York Times
A Big-Wave Photographer Faces Frigid Water, Sharks and Currents to Get the Shot
Sachi Cunningham is one of the few photographers who shoots surfers at Mavericks while swimming. “You don’t want to get the same shots as everyone else on the boat,” she said.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/17/sports/big-wave-surfing-sachi-cunningham.html
Sachi Cunningham is one of the few photographers who shoots surfers at Mavericks while swimming. “You don’t want to get the same shots as everyone else on the boat,” she said.
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How America’s Most Cherished Photographer Learned to See | The New Yorker
How America’s Most Cherished Photographer Learned to See
For five decades, Stephen Shore has remade our vision of the country, largely by remaking his own.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/how-americas-most-cherished-photographer-learned-to-see
I think it’s important that you distill this into three aspects. The first aspect is physical. It’s what the eyes do. The second aspect is cognitive. It is apprehending the image from the eyes. The third aspect is metacognitive. It is being aware of apprehending what one sees. It’s this last that’s of particular interest to me as a photographer. It’s been my experience that, when a photographer takes pictures when they’re seeing in a state of heightened awareness, they make subtle decisions that lead the resultant image to appear particularly vivid.
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Lynsey Addario: Master Series Award Winner – LENSCRATCH
Lynsey Addario: Master Series Award Winner – LENSCRATCH
The School of Visual Arts (SVA) honors Lynsey Addario, acclaimed photographer, MacArthur Genius Grant and Pulitzer Prize recipient, with the 32nd annual Masters Series Award and Exhibition, originally planned for Fall 2020. Curated by Maya Benton and Perr
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/10/lynsey-addario-master-series-award-winner/
Addario has brought a strong focus to women’s issues in her work, including gender-based violence and rape as a weapon of war—topics covered in a traveling exhibition she did with Columbia College of Chicago in 2008. She also began work on a long-term project on maternal mortality in 2009, documenting complications associated with women dying in childbirth in places including Sierra Leone, India, the Philippines and the United States.
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Wolfgang Tillmans’s Beautiful Awareness | The New Yorker
Wolfgang Tillmans’s Beautiful Awareness
The photographer talks about his first MOMA retrospective and how his prescient art flows from the act of paying attention.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/wolfgang-tillmanss-beautiful-awareness
It’s fascinating that, when I started using photography as my main medium and art, obviously, I had no idea that this medium would become so central to all life, all human life today. It’s crazy, like, people engage and do it every day in a way that was totally unheard of twenty-five years ago. Even though everybody is a photographer now, somehow my pictures still stay recognizable and still stay what they are, which, you know, can’t be taken for granted.