Category: Interviews
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Vincent Laforet | An Interview
Link: “I’ve Always Thought That If You Have Nothing But Perfect Shots You’re Almost Impeding Yourself As A Filmmaker.” -Vincent Laforet
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Tsuyoshi Ito interviews Andrew Moore
Tsuyoshi Ito interviews Andrew Moore – LENSCRATCH Photographer Tsuyoshi Ito, program director at Project Basho, interviews the amazing Andrew Moore today. Project Basho is excited to bring Andrew Moore to Philadelphia as the keynote speaker for the ONWARD Summit lecture series on Saturday, March 1st. Working with large format color photography, Moore creates images that…
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Jason Langer Interview
Jason Langer Interview Jonathan Blaustein: I noticed on your bio that you were born in Arizona, and raised in Oregon. But it looks like you lived on a kibbutz in Israel for four years. Is that right? Jason Langer: Yes, b… via A Photo Editor: https://aphotoeditor.com/2014/02/26/jason-langer-interview/ A lot of what I do now is try…
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Picture Editor Mike Davis On Clarity of Voice in Today’s Media Landscape
Link: “I think now there is a greater need for picture editors and people who can craft visual narratives [to] help photographers develop [their work],” Davis says, “at a time when there are fewer of us than there have [historically] been.”
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Amy Toensing on Hunger in America: Iowa’s Breadbasket | PROOF
Link: Amy Toensing traveled to Osage, Iowa, to photograph people who are classified as “food insecure”—meaning they need assistance, either from government programs and/or food banks to get the food they need. Toensing talks about some of her experiences in the featured video and the conversation below.
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Photographing on the Ground in Gaza
Photographing on the Ground in Gaza Sergey Ponomarev has encountered a war routine in Gaza, documenting the destruction and casualties of the latest conflict. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/29/gaza-city-sergey-ponomarev-israel-photos/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0 Sergey Ponomarev, 33, is a freelance photographer covering the conflict in Gaza on assignment for The New York Times. He grew up in Moscow and Ireland and…
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An interview with Trent Parke – Try Hard Magazine
Tryhardmagazine via Tryhardmagazine: http://tryhardmagazine.com/an-interview-with-trent-parke Later, a relative was flicking through the portraits, who has no idea about photography, and he said ‘So in a way the camera is playing God.’ That was it. With personal camera phones and security cameras all over cities now, nothing goes unnoticed. The camera is all seeing
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Found: James Blair on Recording History | PROOF
Link: Jim Blair is an innovator, but not in the contemporary, technology-focused use of that word. Jim’s photography particularly broke new ground in content for National Geographic from 1960 to 1994. He, along with a handful of other like-minded photographers, stretched what “science” could encompass by arguing that social and environmental problems should be included in…
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Alejandro Cegarra 2014 emerging talent • Stories and Trends | Getty Images
Creative Insights Creative Insights is an authentic, thought-provoking experience in imagery that sparks the imagination and inspires great ideas. via Creative Insights: https://creativeinsights.gettyimages.com After working for a year at an advertising agency, he quit to pursue photography as a fulltime profession. He has worked for Venezuela’s largest newspaper, Ultimas Noticias, as well as freelanced in…
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Howard Schatz: The Doctor Is In! — zPhotoJournal
Link: I have learned so many things in medicine that have helped me as a photographer. I learned how to insure that when a patient who was frightened about losing their vision…feel upon meeting me…that they came to the right doctor. This helps me a great deal with portraiture.
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Emerging Talen – Jabin Botsford | The Visual Student
Link: I failed a bunch of classes my first semester, I just took a whole semester of general education and absolutely hated it. Next semester I decided I was going to take photography classes, because my community college had a photo program which covered all types of photography. After a year, I had to a…
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Repping Instagram Photographers – Tinker Street Mobile | A Photo Editor
Repping Instagram Photographers – Tinker Street Mobile by T. Brittain Stone We’ve all heard about Instagrammers with huge followings that can bill $5000 a day for clients like American Airlines, Best Buy or the Israel Ministry of Tourism. And when you … via A Photo Editor: https://aphotoeditor.com/2014/10/27/repping-instagram-photographers-tinker-street-mobile/ artists rep Jesse Miller will give you a…
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The Photojournalist Who Stared Down Ebola – The Daily Beast
The Photojournalist Who Stared Down Ebola His disturbing images are what despairing victims and survivors in Liberia hoped the world would see. An interview with Getty Images’ John Moore, speaking from his quarantine. via The Daily Beast: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/08/the-photojournalist-who-stared-down-ebola.html His disturbing images are what despairing victims and survivors in Liberia hoped the world would see. An…
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What’s Your Niche: Stephen Crowley, Political Photojournalist
Link: I’m not emotionally attached to any piece of equipment. Sometimes music is better with a cello and other times it’s more effective if you play it on a banjo
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Jean-Pierre Laffont: Photographer’s Paradise — zPhotoJournal
Link: This week, as Laffont heads to the 2015 FOTOfusion festival to present his work, zPhotoJournal has a conversation with the passionate and eloquent Jean-Pierre Laffont as he discusses his “Magical Mystery Tour.”
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Lisa Krantz: The Toll of Obesity — zPhotoJournal
Link: Last week, Krantz’s story: “A Life Apart: The Toll of Obesity,” won the Community Awareness Award at the 72nd POYi photography contest. (See link below) The poignant story was first published in the San Antonio Express-News where she is a full time staff photographer. It documented the struggles of one man’s battle with obesity
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Sol Neelman: Weird Sports — zPhotoJournal
Link: I used to use a 400mm f2.8 lens for covering college football, in large part because we were stuck on the sidelines. My #1 lens for shooting Weird Sports is my Canon 35mm f1.4, in part because I’m not battling a sports information director for access. There are times like with Drag Queen Prom…
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Simon Høgsberg’s Grocery Store Project uses facial recognition to tie strangers’ lives together | dvafoto
Link: If we can accept the theory that the universe came out of nothing, it may make sense to think that a project can arise from nothing. I like the idea that something can pop out of nothing, that material can appear from a source full of nothingness
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Nancy Andrews: The Innovator — zPhotoJournal
Link: I try to teach people to explore. I try to show that it’s good journalism to know your audience through the tools we can use to understand them. It is good journalism to be able to capture a moment in video with your phone, because for most, the option would be to NOT capture…
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Ljubljana : James Nachtwey at Slovenia Press Photo – The Eye of Photography
Link: I spent the entire day right in the middle of the chaos and barely managed to survive. That night I made my way to the TIME office, dropped off the film and after the initial edit for a special issue of the magazine, I never looked at it again. My heart had been broken.…