Based out of Cambodia for the past 13 years, Belgium born photojournalist John Vink, member of the prestigious Magnum Photos is known for his long-term photographic ventures. His works, conducted in different corners of the world, are instrumental in giving an insight into the daily struggles of humankind for shelter, water or simply, survival. Unlike many, Vink has taken the digital space in his stride and his works are available as photography apps and e-books. Vink talks to Emaho about his photographic journey through the years, documentation of the land struggles of refugees, Khmer Rouge trial and his views on minimalistic roles of a photographer in storytelling.
Category: Interviews
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John Vink: ‘The photographer is not a hero’
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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 synthesize the documentary style with the traditions
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2014/02/andrew-moore-interview/
Large format is not only a craft, in that it takes one years of practice to gain a spontaneous fluidity with, but it’s also a way of seeing, a discipline that helps one to completely focus on image making in all senses of the phrase. It’s also to equal degrees both frustrating and meditating, even when one has a certain degree of mastery, yet by the same measure it’s a great antidote to the nearly reckless pace at which one can work digitally
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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 to carve out every possible minute of the day to allow myself time to do my personal work. As we’re bombarded every day with more and more media, I find I have to make a concerted effort to fall away from the rest of the world, and its responsibilities where possible.
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Amy Toensing on Hunger in America: Iowa’s Breadbasket | PROOF
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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.
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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 has previously worked for The Associated Press. He spoke to James Estrin from Gaza City on Saturday evening
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An interview with Trent Parke – Try Hard Magazine
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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
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 the dialogue that National Geographic was having with its readers.
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Alejandro Cegarra 2014 emerging talent • Stories and Trends | Getty Images
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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 his country for the Associated Press. Earlier this year, he was recognized in Magnum Photo Agency’s 30 Under 30 contest and was the first-prize winner of the Ian Parry scholarship. We asked Alejandro a few questions about his work and burgeoning career as a photographer.
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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 glimpse of this burgeoning (big) business. His agency Tinker Street is the first to have created a “mobile” division, and he now has built a behemoth roster of many of Instagram’s most followed talent
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Emerging Talen – Jabin Botsford | The Visual Student
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 take a class called Photojournalism
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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 interview with Getty Images’ John Moore, speaking from his quarantine.
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Lisa Krantz: The Toll of Obesity — zPhotoJournal
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
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 Dress Rugby that I was actually on the pitch taking photos with players flying around me.
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Nancy Andrews: The Innovator — zPhotoJournal
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 the moment…and our audience wants to see it…and hear it.