A former tech entrepreneur now pursuing photography as a second career, Dotan Saguy has gained notice for his project about the vitality, energy and spectacle of Venice Beach.
Category: Interviews
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What’s next for visual story telling? – Kaptur
What’s next for visual story telling? – Kaptur
Meet Storyo, the Portuguese company that is committed to revolutionize the way visual content is created and shared
via Kaptur: https://kaptur.co/whats-next-visual-story-telling/
The future of visual story telling session at Mobile Photo Connect this year will feature Filipe Vasconcellos, CEO of Storyo, a startup that is tackling the challenges involved in building and sharing visual memories. To learn more about this startup’s technology we interviewed Manuel Costa, the company’s CTO.
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The Curated Fridge at Photoville | LENSCRATCH
The Curated Fridge at Photoville – LENSCRATCH
If you don’t know the name Yorgos Efthymiadis, you should. Because he is one of those really good people making things happen for photographers, using his own innovative ideas, time, and energy. I met Yorgos a number of years ago when he was volunteering at the Flash Forward Festival in Boston. We became friends and
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2016/09/the-curated-fridge/
If you don’t know the name Yorgos Efthymiadis, you should. Because he is one of those really good people making things happen for photographers, using his own innovative ideas, time, and energy. I met Yorgos a number of years ago when he was volunteering at the Flash Forward Festival in Boston
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Intimate Distance — Photography Star Todd Hido Looks Back at the First 25 Years of His Career | FotoRoom
Intimate Distance — Photography Star Todd Hido Looks Back at the First 25 Years of His Career
If photography was Hollywood, Todd Hido would be a top actor like George Clooney or Brad Pitt. His fantastic images, and his photos of illuminated windows brightening up the nights of America’s suburbs above all, have firmly positioned him as one of the best and most successful contemporary photographers. 25 years after taking his first steps in photography, Hido celebrates the first part of his career with a major retrospective publication recently released by Aperture.
via FotoRoom: http://fotoroom.co/intimate-distance-todd-hido/
I think that my particular approach to photography stems from my love of many different aspects of the medium itself, which is one of the reasons that I often work in multiple genres concurrently. My approach very much vacillates between my love of documentary and my desire to express myself emotionally with images.
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Mark Peterson: Photographing the Hate in Charlottesville Up Close | PDNPulse
The New Republic has published Mark Peterson’s dramatic images of clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia, last weekend between white nationalists at the so-called “Unite the Right” rally, and counter-protesters who showed up to demonstrate against the rising fascist movement. Peterson has covered US politics since the 1990s. We caught up with him to find out why he covered the rally, what he was trying to accomplish, and how he positioned himself to photograph the white nationalist leaders—and the violence—at such close range.
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Ken Weingart interviews Edward Burtynsky | LENSCRATCH
Ken Weingart interviews Edward Burtynsky – LENSCRATCH
Edward Burtynsky is a legendary Canadian fine art photographer who specializes in chronicling the extraction and destruction of the earth and it’s minerals, mines and more. His images bring a painterly beauty to the banal. A photographer and master printer for over forty years, Burtynsky has pioneered a unique way of looking at the planet.
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2017/08/ken-weingart-interviews-edward-burtynsky/
Edward Burtynsky is a legendary Canadian fine art photographer who specializes in chronicling the extraction and destruction of the earth and it’s minerals, mines and more. His images bring a painterly beauty to the banal. A photographer and master printer for over forty years, Burtynsky has pioneered a unique way of looking at the planet. I had the opportunity to speak with the artist at the Von Lintel Gallery in Los Angeles.
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A Marriage of Lives and Photos – The New York Times
A Marriage of Lives and Photos
In “Slant Rhymes,” Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb have a visual dialogue, sometimes ambiguous and suggestive, that spans the couple’s relationship.
via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/08/29/a-marriage-of-lives-and-photos/
The photographers Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb have produced a book, “Slant Rhymes,” that pairs images by each of them in diptychs. In an email exchange with James Estrin, they discussed the book, photography and their relationship.
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Telling Complex Truths About Africa at LagosPhoto Festival – The New York Times
Telling Complex Truths About Africa at LagosPhoto Festival
This year’s LagosPhoto Festival looks for truth in photography to shape the way Africa’s stories are told.
The eighth edition of the LagosPhoto Festival opened last week and runs through Dec. 15th. Azu Nwagbogu, the festival’s founder and director, spoke with James Estrin about photography in Africa. Their conversation has been edited for clarity and brevity.
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David Hurn’s Social Arizona Trips – The Eye of Photography
Magnum photographer David Hurn’s documentary photographs are distinguished by their quiet observation and remarkable insight. “Life as it unfolds in front of the camera is full of so much complexity, wonder and surprise that I find it unnecessary to create new realities,” he writes. “There is more pleasure, for me, in things as they are.” Hurn fell in love with the state of Arizona, in the United States, and made several trips back between 1979 and 2001, turning his eye to ordinary Arizonians in their daily life, their schools, exercise classes, holidays and their landscape. His new book entitled Arizona Trips contains more than 150 photographs on the subject. The British photographer is here in conversation with writer Sir Christopher Frayling.
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Photography legend Joel Meyerowitz: phones killed the sexiness of the street | Art and design | The Guardian
Photography legend Joel Meyerowitz: phones killed the sexiness of the street
He chased parades, ambushed hairdressers and refused to leave Ground Zero. Over PG Tips and ricotta at his Tuscan barn, Joel Meyerowitz relives his most stunning shots
via the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/mar/07/photography-legend-joel-meyerowitz-phones-killed-sexiness-street-most-stunning-shots
He chased parades, ambushed hairdressers and refused to leave Ground Zero. Over PG Tips and ricotta at his Tuscan barn, Joel Meyerowitz relives his most stunning shots
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Q&A: Gus Powell on Street Photography as Poetry | PDN Online
“Pretzel” (2017) from Gus Powell’s ongoing series of personal street work called “Mise en Scène.” Powell tells students in his street photography classes “not to be sneaky, because you have people who are trying to shoot from the hip or be misleading, and if you get caught doing that—if you feel guilty, then you’re guilty. The most important thing for me is being open and present.”
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Noah Kalina on The Great Discontent (TGD)
Noah Kalina on The Great Discontent (TGD)
For more than fifteen years, Noah Kalina has carved out a freelance career that manages to strike a balance between fine art and commercial photography. Here, the Barryville, NY-based photographer talks to us about the path he took to get there—the high school awards that gave him the confidence to keep taking pictures; attending art school, and jump starting an independent career by taking $20 head shots out of a small Manhattan apartment; and why he chose to move his life and studio to rural Upstate NY. Despite the ups and downs that working solo can often present, Noah still says he wouldn’t have it any other way.
via The Great Discontent (TGD): https://thegreatdiscontent.com/interview/noah-kalina/
For more than fifteen years, Noah Kalina has carved out a freelance career that manages to strike a balance between fine art and commercial photography. Here, the Barryville, NY-based photographer talks to us about the path he took to get there—the high school awards that gave him the confidence to keep taking pictures; attending art school, and jump starting an independent career by taking $20 head shots out of a small Manhattan apartment; and why he chose to move his life and studio to rural Upstate NY. Despite the ups and downs that working solo can often present, Noah still says he wouldn’t have it any other way.
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B: Q & A with Charalampos Kydonakis
Q & A with Charalampos Kydonakis
Charalampos Kydonakis (aka Dirty Harrry ) is a photographer based in Crete, Greece. His recent self-published photo book is Warn’d In Vai…
Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2018/12/q-with-charalampos-kydonakis.html
Charalampos Kydonakis (aka Dirty Harrry) is a photographer based in Crete, Greece. His recent self-published photo book is Warn’d In Vain, “An Argonautica inspired NYC story”.
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Bruce Gilden Has Balls | Leicaphilia
I like Gilden. It takes a lot of balls to walk up to someone on the street and push a flash camera in their face. Does it take some special photographic talent? No. But that’s not the point. It takes a certain unified vision. The point is Gilden has created an aesthetic unique to him and hasn’t much deviated from it in 50 years. As such, he’s created a large, coherent body of work. I’ve heard people criticize his work, claiming it gimmicky and artless, something any 8th grader would be capable of. Could your kid have taken these pictures? Yes. But your kid didn’t, and Gilden did, just like it would have been within your kid’s skill set to have painted Jackson Pollock’s Alchemy, 1947. Your kid didn’t, because your kid would have never considered the aesthetic potential inherent in the medium. The genius of Pollock -and Gilden- is having seen the aesthetic others missed.
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In conversation with… five female Ethiopian photographers to watch
Five talented Ethiopian women photographers
Last May, on a work trip to Addis Ababa for the UNESCO World Press Freedom Day conference, I had the pleasure to catch-up and meet with…
via Medium: https://witness.worldpressphoto.org/five-talented-ethiopian-women-photographers-88d7429f0145
With a vibrant photography scene, Ethiopia has no shortage of talent and women photographers are leading the way. Here are my conversations with just five of them: Hilina Abebe, Tsion Haileselassie, Addis Aemero, Maheder Haileselassie and Martha Tadesse.
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Brittney Denham: The States Project: Wyoming | LENSCRATCH
Brittney Denham: The States Project: Wyoming – LENSCRATCH
Brittney Denham was born in California and raised in Wyoming. She graduated from The Ohio State University in 2012 with an MFA. Currently she is Printmaking and Photography Faculty, as well as the Gallery Director at Sheridan College in Sheridan Wyoming. Her work has been exhibited nationally, including most recent North by Northwest, at The
via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2019/09/brittney-denham-the-states-project-wyoming/
Coming from a place that city folks might find remote has led to some polarizing conversations. I got asked as a kid if I rode my horse to school every day, or if we had running water. On the other side of the spectrum, until I moved to the city I never thought it was odd that most people I knew had an animal mounted to living room wall. Moving from place to place gave me an outsiders perspective. I think my upbringing made me more flexible as a maker as well as more susceptible to making work about what I’m encountering in the moment, much like how Western Vestige or This is to tell you we’re out in the Old West was made.
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Jack Latham | 1000 Words
Jack Latham | 1000 Words
n the occasion of his solo exhibition currently at RPS House Bristol, photographer Jack Latham sits down with 1000 Words Editor, Tim Clark to discuss his latest body of work Sugar Paper Theories. The project delves into Iceland’s unsolved, double-murder i
via 1000 Words: http://www.1000wordsmag.com/jack-latham/
n the occasion of his solo exhibition currently at RPS House Bristol, photographer Jack Latham sits down with 1000 Words Editor, Tim Clark to discuss his latest body of work Sugar Paper Theories. The project delves into Iceland’s unsolved, double-murder investigation from 1974 – known as the Gudmundur and Geirfinnur case – following the disappearance of two men in separate incidents in the country’s southwestern region. By deftly fusing photographs of key protagonists implicated in the historical event – suspects, whistleblowers, conspiracy theorists, expert witnesses and bystanders – with archival material from the original police files, Latham pieces together a narrative reconstruction of the case to explore the machinations of memory and the power of suggestibility, as well as photography’s truth claims.
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B: Q & A with John Sypal
Q & A with John Sypal
Photo by Blake Andrews John Sypal is a photographer based in Tokyo • Blake: Here’s something I’ve been wondering about…
Link: https://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2019/12/q-with-john-sypal.html
John Sypal is a photographer based in Tokyo
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Robert Adams Interviewed – Thomas Weski, John Szarkowski, Shooting 450 Rolls of Film in Denver – AMERICAN SUBURB X
Robert Adams Interviewed – Thomas Weski, John Szarkowski, Shooting 450 Rolls of Film in Denver
@ Robert Adams
“I shot about 450 rolls of film, all up and down the Front Range, mostly in the Denver area, though. And the work from that sat under—I printed it all and mounted every print, but it sat under my work table for about—whatever it was—I m
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“I shot about 450 rolls of film, all up and down the Front Range, mostly in the Denver area, though. And the work from that sat under—I printed it all and mounted every print, but it sat under my work table for about—whatever it was—I mean, like 20-some years.”