Category: Interviews

  • What’s next for visual story telling? – Kaptur

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    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…

  • The Curated Fridge at Photoville | LENSCRATCH

    The Curated Fridge at Photoville | LENSCRATCH

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    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…

  • 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 | FotoRoom

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    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…

  • Vendôme : Who’s a photographer? #2 – The Eye of Photography

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    Link: For its thirteenth edition and continuing last year’s programme, the Promenades photographiques de Vendôme is continuing its reflection on the theme Qui est photographe? Odile Andrieu, the festival’s artistic director, tells us about the 2017 programme.

  • Mark Peterson: Photographing the Hate in Charlottesville Up Close | PDNPulse

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    Link: 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…

  • Ken Weingart interviews Edward Burtynsky | LENSCRATCH

    Ken Weingart interviews Edward Burtynsky | LENSCRATCH

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    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…

  • A Marriage of Lives and Photos – The New York Times

    A Marriage of Lives and Photos – The New York Times

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    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.…

  • Telling Complex Truths About Africa at LagosPhoto Festival – The New York Times

    Telling Complex Truths About Africa at LagosPhoto Festival – The New York Times

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    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. via Lens Blog: https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/11/27/telling-complex-truths-about-africa-at-lagosphoto-festival/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs&region=Body 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…

  • David Hurn’s Social Arizona Trips – The Eye of Photography

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    Link: 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…

  • Photography legend Joel Meyerowitz: phones killed the sexiness of the street | Art and design | The Guardian

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    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…

  • Q&A: Gus Powell on Street Photography as Poetry | PDN Online

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    Link: “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…

  • Noah Kalina on The Great Discontent (TGD)

    Noah Kalina on The Great Discontent (TGD)

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    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…

  • B: Q & A with Charalampos Kydonakis

    B: Q & A with Charalampos Kydonakis

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    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”.

  • Bruce Gilden Has Balls | Leicaphilia

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    Link: 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…

  • In conversation with… five female Ethiopian photographers to watch

    In conversation with… five female Ethiopian photographers to watch

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    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…

  • Brittney Denham: The States Project: Wyoming | LENSCRATCH

    Brittney Denham: The States Project: Wyoming | LENSCRATCH

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    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,…

  • Jack Latham | 1000 Words

    Jack Latham | 1000 Words

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    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…

  • B: Q & A with John Sypal

    B: Q & A with John Sypal

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    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

  • 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 – AMERICAN SUBURB X

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    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…

  • Meet Emerging Photography Juror Jessie Wender, Photo Editor at The New York Times – Feature Shoot

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    [contentcards url=“https://www.featureshoot.com/2019/11/meet-emerging-photography-juror-jessie-wender-photo-editor-at-the-new-york-times/”] Meet Emerging Photography Juror Jessie Wender, Photo Editor at The New York Times – Feature Shoot Jessie Wender is a photo editor, writer and producer. She has worked in the photo departments of The New York Times, Apple, National Geographic, The New Yorker, Esquire, and Time Inc. She loves working with artists and…