Category: Interviews
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Know your NPPA President – Q&A with Melissa Lyttle | The Visual Student
Know your NPPA President – Q&A with Melissa Lyttle On the Board of Directors, we talk a lot about the value of a membership, and I want people to know that their hard-earned money is being put to good use. Other than that, I’m excited with the direction our technology committee is going, helping to…
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I Don’t Believe That Conflict Is Most Comprehensible From The Frontline — Vantage — Medium
I Don’t Believe That Conflict Is Most Comprehensible From The Frontline Olivier Laban-Mattei on journalism ethics and taking steps back via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/i-don-t-believe-that-conflict-is-most-comprehensible-from-the-frontline-b638256c9580#.lyked9k6n Olivier Laban-Mattei on journalism ethics and taking steps back
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Interview with Santa Fe Photographic Workshop Instructor Paulette Tavormina | A Photo Editor
Interview with Santa Fe Photographic Workshop Instructor Paulette Tavormina – A Photo Editor aPhotoEditor: You make lovely, almost decadent still lives. Many, but not all, involve food, and are inspired by Old Master paintings. Has a passion for food played a role in your life and career? Paulette Tavormina: I grew up in a Sicilian…
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4 Million Photos and a Lot of Love: 21 Years as a Photo Editor | PROOF
4 Million Photos and a Lot of Love: 21 Years as a Photo Editor In 21 years as a photo editor at National Geographic, Elizabeth Krist has worked on more than 108 stories and edited at least four million photographs. She has been an inspiring mentor to me. Elizabeth is calm, encouraging, and unfailingly kind…
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On Photographer and Photo Subject: An Interview with Laura Pannack — Vantage — Medium
On Photographer and Photo Subject: An Interview with Laura Pannack Thoughts of a sensitive portraitist via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/on-photographer-and-photo-subject-an-interview-with-laura-pannack-1bd2ea815625#.1gd1ik4pz ased in London, Laura Pannack is a photographer focuses on social documentary and portraiture, seeking to explore the complex relationship between subject and photographer. In 2010 she received first prize in the Portrait Singles category of the…
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B: Tavepong Pratoomwong: What Was He Thinking?
Tavepong Pratoomwong: What Was He Thinking? Tavepong Pratoomwong is a photographer based in Bangkok. • Tree man – One day I was in Japan looking for a ca… Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2016/01/tavepong-pratoomwong-what-was-he.html After taking photos for a while, I saw a little hole in a tree. What if the face of a man poked out through…
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Michael S. Williamson: Color My World — zPhotoJournal
Michael S. Williamson: Color My World I will say this; I do think there’s a teeny bit of a shortage of good ideas to be honest with you. Robert Gilka, then the Chief of Photography for National Geographic once said, “We’re up to our armpits in great photographers, but up to our ankles in good ideas.” So the…
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Kodachrome Memory American Pictures: A Nathan Benn Leica Gallery L.A. Exhibition « The Leica Camera
Kodachrome Memory American Pictures: A Nathan Benn Leica Gallery L.A. Exhibition “There’s a keen difference between working with National Geographic and being an independent photographer”, says Nathan Benn, renowned photographer, former director of Magnum Photos. After nearly 20 years as a National Geographic photographer, reporting on many regions around the world including Netherlands, Dead Sea,…
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Daniel Berehulak: Behind the Pulitzer — zPhotoJournal
Daniel Berehulak: Behind the Pulitzer I think it comes down to how we differentiate ourselves from the “clutter” and how we differentiate our content. Because we ARE journalists…that we use due diligence…check our information and our sources when we are producing it…and when we are consuming it we have to be wary. There are so…
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David Burnett: Marathon Man — zPhotoJournal
David Burnett: Marathon Man To be a photographer in this age, you have to really WANT to do it. Don’t do it just because you can’t think of anything else to do. Go to workshops, and perhaps more important, use your library and even the web to find work which inspires you. One of the…
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Dewi Lewis Interview Part 1 | A Photo Editor
Dewi Lewis Interview Part 1 – A Photo Editor Jonathan Blaustein: Will you admit on the record that Arsenal Football Club is superior to Manchester United? Dewi Lewis: Never. Never. JB: Never? DL: Never. Why would I admit to something that isn’t true? JB: (laughing.) Of course. But what if I secretly via A Photo…
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Blink Network – Not For the Faint of Heart: Views from a Freelancer | LensCulture
Not For the Faint of Heart: Views from a Freelancer – Interview with Blink member Pete Muller | LensCulture Stirring, hard-earned wisdom from a photographer committed to his craft and to a deeply engaged life on the road via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/blink-network-not-for-the-faint-of-heart-views-from-a-freelancer Recently, Blink’s Sahiba Chawdhary interviewed Muller about his inspirations, current projects and what it…
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The Art of the Personal Project: Jim Golden | A Photo Editor
The Art of the Personal Project: Jim Golden – A Photo Editor As a former Art Producer, I have always been drawn to personal projects because they are the sole vision of the photographer and not an extension of an art director, photo editor, or graphic designer. This column, “The Art of the Personal Project”…
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Where Are Chernobyl’s Children? — Vantage — Medium
Where Are Chernobyl’s Children? Photography in the Age of Disaster Tourism via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/where-are-chernobyl-s-children-a-photojournalist-s-honest-project-in-the-age-of-disaster-tourism-4cd333ab80c7 It’s very hard, especially for young people, to live off the arts anymore. We are destroying art, we are destroying music, we are destroying culture, if creators cannot make a living off their art. Or we’re handing culture over exclusively to…
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How Maggie Steber Turned a Brutal Portfolio Review into Career Success
How Maggie Steber Turned a Brutal Portfolio Review into Career Success | PDNPulse During our interview with photojournalist Maggie Steber, she observed that the photography business is now so challenging that you have to be a “never-say-die person” to succeed. But it was no easier for Steber when she was starting out than it is…
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Mark Peterson: Up Close & Personal — zPhotoJournal
Mark Peterson: Up Close & Personal Peterson certainly has developed a style. His images have an intensity to them that can’t be achieved with mid-range or long lenses. And it’s a style that has suited him well over the years with clients that wanted someone who would bring “something different” to the table. I once…
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Monkey Business with Street Photographer Tavepong Pratoomwong — Vantage — Medium
Monkey Business with Street Photographer Tavepong Pratoomwong A few months back, ELEPHANT GUN commissioned Clifton Barker to conduct a series of unconventional interviews with notable photographers. Due to our indecision, the project went nowhere. After… via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/monkey-business-with-street-photographer-tavepong-pratoomwong-bf55cfcf7b7e A series of unconventional questions tackled by your favorite Thai street shooter
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Blink Network – Perpignan 27: Interview with Visa Director Jean-François Leroy | LensCulture
Perpignan 27: Interview with Visa Director Jean-François Leroy – Featuring Highlights from Visa Pour l’Image Festival | LensCulture Missing out on this year’s edition of Visa Pour l’Image? At least you can enjoy 52 great images from the program and an interview with the legendary festival director who started it all via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/blink-network-perpignan-27-interview-with-visa-director-jean-francois-leroy This…
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5 Years Later, We’re Still Addicted to Internet K-Hole | The Creators Project
5 Years Later, We’re Still Addicted to Internet K-Hole Arguably the best found photo site on the web recently reemerged on Tumblr, so we talked to the site’s founder about maintaining its allure for half a decade. via Vice: http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/5-years-later-were-still-addicted-to-internet-k-hole Looking at the same types of images by the same types of people on social…