Category: Interviews
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B: Q & A with Ivars Gravlejs
Q & A with Ivars Gravlejs Ivars Gravlejs, photo by Līva Rutmane Ivars Gravlejs is a photographer based in Prague. • BA: I first learned about … Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2017/03/q-with-ivars-gravlejs.html In such a configuration people will find out immediately when you photograph them. If your intervention with the camera is objectionable for them, they will quickly…
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Richard Mosse on Using a Military Grade Camera to Find Signs of Life in Refugee Camps | American Photo
Richard Mosse on Using a Military Grade Camera to Find Signs of Life in Refugee Camps On a tip from a friend, Mosse bought a military-grade camera meant for long-range battle surveillance that doesn’t see visible light. Instead, this camera sees heat and produces crisp black-and-white images that are exposed based on the relative warmth…
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How This Photographer is Shedding Light on the Refugee Crisis | PhotoShelter Blog
How This Photographer is Shedding Light on the Refugee Crisis – PhotoShelter Blog There’s a staggering fact on photographer Malin Fezehai’s website. “The number of people forced to flee their homes across the world has exceeded 50 million for the first time since the second World War.” For over ten years, Malin has been on…
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Michael Zagaris Speaks About His Career as a Rock ’n’ Roll Photographer | American Photo
Michael Zagaris Speaks About His Career as a Rock ’n’ Roll Photographer Earlier this year Zagaris released Total Excess through Reel Art Press, which brings a number of these images together. A show by the same name is currently on view at Milk Gallery in New York. Zagaris spoke with American Photo about his unlikely…
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An interview with Harry Benson – The Eye of Photography
An interview with Harry Benson Photography is the easiest thing to keep you motivated. The camera will basically do whatever you want it to do. There is a simplicity and excitement; it doesn’t have to be complicated. You can judge what’s a good picture, what’s a bad picture – don’t take anybody else’s opinion –…
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Tim Tadder Interview | A Photo Editor
Tim Tadder Interview – A Photo Editor Tim Tadder is an internationally acclaimed photographic artist. Most recognized for his highly inventive conceptual advertising photography Tadder has been ranked in the top 200 photographers worldwide by the prestigious Luezer Archive Magazine 8 years ru via A Photo Editor: http://aphotoeditor.com/2016/10/19/tim-tadder-interview/ Tim Tadder is an internationally acclaimed photographic…
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Visual Storytelling and the Future of Photos – Thoughts of a Bohemian
Visual Storytelling and the Future of Photos – Thoughts of a Bohemian The last 5 to 10 years have seen the visual web step out of its infancy and become a young turbulent teenager. via Thoughts of a Bohemian: http://blog.melchersystem.com/visual-storytelling-future-photos/ We asked Paul Melcher to share what drives him, which trends have his attention, and…
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Musée Magazine : Interview with Alex Soth, Photographer of the social landscape – The Eye of Photography
Musée Magazine : Interview with Alex Soth, Photographer of the social landscape AS: That’s a tough one, and I love processing Szarkowski quotes. He also talked about how photography, on a mental level, is just pointing. It’s just pointing your finger, and saying, “look at that.” And when you point to something you’re not showing…
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B: Q & A with Brittany Marcoux
Q & A with Brittany Marcoux Brittany Marcoux is a photographer based in Boston and the creator of The Shore Project , a rephotographing of Stephen Shore’s Uncommo… Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2016/10/q-with-brittany-marcoux.html Brittany Marcoux is a photographer based in Boston and the creator of The Shore Project, a rephotographing of Stephen Shore’s Uncommon Places.
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Visa pour l’Image’s Director: I’m Not Against New Technologies. | TIME
Visa pour l’Image’s Director: ‘I’m Not Against New Technologies.’ Jean-François Leroy speaks to TIME ahead of the photo festival’s 28th edition via Time: http://time.com/4465370/visa-perpignan-technology/ Jean-François Leroy speaks to TIME ahead of the photo festival’s 28th edition
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LANDSCAPE STORIES: 95/2016 Mark Steinmetz
LANDSCAPE STORIES: 95/2016 Mark Steinmetz My work springs more from feelings and intuition than ideas. I try to stay open and rely on my instincts. I put my antennae up and just see what is reeled in. There’s the saying most everyone is familiar with – “go with the flow.” I try not to get…
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Capturing the Drama in Olympic Moments – The New York Times
Capturing the Drama in Olympic Moments Doug Mills is photographing the Rio Olympics for The New York Times. He joined The Times in 2002 after working for The Associated Press and has shot almost every Olympics since the 1992 Winter Games. Based in Washington, Doug covers the White House when not photographing athletes. He spoke…
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Josh Ethan Johnson Shoots New York’s ‘Endangered Species’ | Fotografia Magazine
Josh Ethan Johnson Shoots New York’s ‘Endangered Species’ I like seeing photos that show the guts of the photographer getting inside someone’s personal space. It’s a vulnerable moment some photos express. It creates a tension that may or may not have resolution. The picture also needs to be articulate using maybe strong composition, a flash, natural…
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What It’s Like to Photograph the Refugee Crisis | VICE | United States
What It’s Like to Photograph the Refugee Crisis Warren Richardson, who won this year’s World Press Photo Award for his haunting image of Syrian refugees on the Serbian-Hungarian border, told us what refugees have taught him about survival. via Vice: http://www.vice.com/read/warren-richardson-world-press-photo-interview Warren Richardson is on his own pilgrimage, walking from Budapest to the Arctic Circle…
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Politics as Unusual: Finding Magic in the Periphery – The New York Times
Politics as Unusual: Finding Magic in the Periphery Jessica Dimson, a photo editor on the Politics desk of The New York Times, talks about how to find unique images in the midst of intensely covered and highly stage-managed campaign events. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/07/14/politics-as-unusual-finding-magic-in-the-periphery/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs®ion=Body&_r=0 Over the last year, Jessica Dimson, a photo editor on the…
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Jonathan Bachman on His Iconic Photo | PhotoShelter Blog
Jonathan Bachman on His Iconic Photo – PhotoShelter Blog The image is already being compared to some of the best in history. Freelance photographer Jonathan Bachman, armed with a Canon 1Dx and 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM, set out from New Orleans to cover protests in Baton Rouge over the shooting death of cafeteria w via PhotoShelter…
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Interview with Adam Hinton by YouPic.com – The Eye of Photography
Interview with Adam Hinton on photographing MS-13 gang in El Salvador Documenting dangerous gangsters is not for the light hearted. The MS-13 gang leaders private prison in El-Salvador is no exception. Not even the guards go inside the prison cell.
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LOOK3 2016 : Interview with Mary Calvert – The Eye of Photography
LOOK3 2016 : Interview with Mary Calvert Photojournalist Mary F. Calvert is committed to using photography to affect meaningful social change and is known for producing work on gender based, human rights issues. Calvert believes that journalists have a duty to shine a light into the deepest recesses of the human experience and provide a…
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Legendary Photographer Tom Sheehan Explains His Iconic Images | VICE | United States
Legendary Photographer Tom Sheehan Explains His Iconic Images Tom Sheehan has been taking photos of musicians for 66 years, and he’s got some stories. via Vice: http://www.vice.com/read/tom-sheehan-john-doran-stories-behind-photos Legendary music photographer Tommy Sheehan has been taking pictures of rock, pop, and rap’s great and good for more than 40 years. This month he has his first…
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Interview with Fariba Farshad and Michael Benson – The Eye of Photography
Interview with Fariba Farshad and Michael Benson Few days before the opening of Photo London, our journalist Marie de la Fresnaye met directors of the fair : Fariba Farshad and Michael Benson. Here is the interview.