The first-place winner on luck and telling stories that matter, including the challenges of a family dealing with Down’s Syndrome.
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The first-place winner discusses telling stories that matter, including the challenges of a family dealing with Down’s Syndrome
Photographer and writer Ken Weingart has been producing interviews for his Art and Photography blog, and he has kindly offered to share a few with the Lenscratch audience over the next few months. Today, Ken shares an interview with Siri Kaur, a conceptu
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Photographer and writer Ken Weingart has been producing interviews for his Art and Photography blog, and he has kindly offered to share a few with the Lenscratch audience over the next few months. Today, Ken shares an interview with Siri Kaur is a conceptual fine art photographer who has been breaking some interesting ground and news with her fascinating series This Kind of Face. The unique series was recently exhibited at the Cohen Gallery in Los Angeles and also has a book under the same title.
In a wide-ranging interview, Sebastião Salgado discusses a new documentary that tracks his path from childhood in Brazil to witnessing some of the greatest stories of his age.
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Listen, I am not a social photographer. I am not an economic photographer. I’m not a photojournalist. Photography is much more than that. Photography is my life. It’s my way of life, and my language. I went to photograph the things that I had a great curiosity to see and to organize. I felt a certain revulsion, and a compulsion to show that others also have dignity, that dignity is not an exclusive property of the rich countries of the north but exists all over the planet. That’s what photography was for me, my language, my life and my way of going about and doing things
—A chat with Stacy Kranitz and Missy Prince : Blake: Stacy, I know you grew up in Kentucky but that’s all I know about your earlier hi…
Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2015/03/no-medium-but-experience.html
A chat with Stacy Kranitz and Missy Prince
I spoke with Selkirk in his New York studio last week about his upcoming exhibition, Certain Women, at Howard Greenberg Gallery and the history of his career through the decades. He is the only person ever authorized to make posthumous prints of the work of Diane Arbus.
Matt Stuart is a photographer based in London. • How was LA for you, Matt? LA was great. I had a fantastic time. I ha…
Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2015/03/q-with-matt-stuart.html
I’m really only making the photos for me. It’s a record of where I was and what I tried to do with the camera at that moment. I send the film off, wait to get it back, and see if I nailed it or not. If I didn’t, I’m back out there again. If I did, I’m back out there again. I do this every day. It isn’t for anyone else. Why would I spend that much time on my own walking the streets for anyone else?! Gotta be joking… It is for me. I would guess other photographers are the main audience for my work.
GQ Design Director: Fred Woodward Director of Photography: Krista Prestek Photographer: Michael Friberg I’d imagine shooting highly produced live performance of a legendary rock band could be anyone’s dream assignment; it’s about the access, up close a
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I had delusions of grandeur thinking I’m gonna be like Annie Leibovitz with the Rolling Stones or something. Unfortunately the reality was much much worse. Their time and access was over promised and I had to fight tooth and nail to even get the band together for a quick portrait. It was a pretty acrimonious setting, I felt like I was in a real life version of Spinal Tap.
Michael Jang by Amanda Boe Michael Jang is a photographer based in San Francisco. • One photo of yours that struck me …
Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2015/03/q-with-michael-jang.html
Look, I extend the antennas to detect pools of energy, respond and react with little if no thought, shoot like a blind man with ADHD and bail. Or maybe not ADHD but Aspergers where I understand empathy might be an issue. That’s another subject.
Since the end of 2013, France has sent more than 1200 soldiers to the Central African Republic – including a large number of foreign legionnaires. They come from different countries and fight for a common cause: the end of the civil war. Photographer Edouard Elias accompanied the troops. We spoke with him about his motivation, his difficulties in justifying that he is a professional and the importance of remembrance
Photographer Zach D Roberts interviews photojournalist Eros Hoagland about his new book, “Reckoning the Frontier”, featuring shots from his years along the border of the US and Mexico.
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I think violence attracts a lot of people, not just journalists. But journalists do seem to love it so. Not that violence is the only magnet for our profession, not at all. But it does seem to be a central attraction. Are we vultures, perhaps, but vultures play an important role in the ecosystem, so I don’t really see that as a bad thing. On second thought, we behave much worse than vultures in many cases
Photographer and writer Ken Weingart has been producing interviews for his Art and Photography blog, and he has kindly offered to share a few with the Lenscratch audience over the next few months. Today, Ken shares an interview with Martin Schoeller, the
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Photographer and writer Ken Weingart has been producing interviews for his Art and Photography blog, and he has kindly offered to share a few with the Lenscratch audience over the next few months. Today, Ken shares an interview with Martin Schoeller, the a highly successful German portrait photographer who just finished a show called Portraits at the prestigious Hasted Kraeutler Art Gallery in New York City.
This week, zPhotoJournal has a conversation with the affable and self-proclaimed “extrovert,” David Bergman as he discusses his journey upon a road well-traveled.
In 20 years covering the world’s most desperate places, Lynsey Addario has been kidnapped, assaulted, and many times moved to tears. Her new book, ‘It’s What I Do,’ tells her story.
Previously, we talked to Turnley about his book “French Kiss-A Love Letter to Paris” in October 2013 and featured a complementary video on his work that’s viewable here. As Valentine’s Day approaches along with the Leica Fotopark Valentine’s Day Challenge, we sat back down with Peter to hear more about his time photographing Paris and the love he has witnessed and experienced there.
Sélim Harbi is a documentary photographer who lives between Berlin and Tunis, where he was born in 1982. He is particularly interested in the possibilities that digital offers for experimenting and re-inventing photographic narration. After studying at film school in Berlin, he talks here about creating the series he devoted to the city of Beirut in 2011, “Beirut Frames”. Highly committed to promoting a “southward-looking Southern gaze”, Sélim Harbi co-founded the pan-African collective “Afreekyama” and is currently involved in organizing the second edition of an African collectives workshop to be held in Gabon in 2015.
When I picked up a camera, I was a lost kid. It became a compass for me. I traveled everywhere with it. A passport. I went to the places on old pirate maps that say “here they be monsters.” It gave me a place to slay dragons that were haunting me as an angsty teenager. It gave me confidence. Somewhere along the way the camera became a way to make a living and I lost how it was hardwired to my heart. It became a cash resister. The music business was a little hallowed and empty. It lacked any real depth. Pushy micro managing publicists making my life difficult, none of that Leibovitz John Lennon access. It was a job. I wanted to go back and understand why I use this thing called a camera – to see into the darkness. I wanted to make pictures from my depths. I had new dragons and monsters to deal with. It was time to get lost and wander around the subway. My underworld.
J örg Colberg is a photographer, teacher, and critic based in Northampton, MA. • BA: A new internet joke: How many bloggers doe…
Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2015/01/q-with-jorg-colberg.html
Seriously, one of the main reasons for me sitting on pictures is the lack of time to work with them on a daily basis. But photography takes time anyway. I think one has to spend time with one’s pictures, to see and hear and feel what they say
For Minneapolis-based photographer Teri Fullerton, the lens is a means of breaking down barriers and connecting with people, be they soldiers coming home after time at war or men who approach her on dating websites. Throughout her work, Fullerton approach
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For Minneapolis-based photographer Teri Fullerton, the lens is a means of breaking down barriers and connecting with people, be they soldiers coming home after time at war or men who approach her on dating websites. Throughout her work, Fullerton approaches those who are often made to feel different or alien with an empathetic eye, seeking out common threads and moments of understanding between a subject and his audience.
Karen Mullarkey talks about working with Annie Leibovitz and Richard Avedon and why photographers today need to shoot less.
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Part two of my talk with Karen Mullarkey, who is one of the most influential and respected picture editors of all time. She’s a national treasure. Dozens, if not hundreds of photographers owe much of their success to her. Karen cut her chops at Life Magazine and quickly moved on to be the Director of Photography at Rolling Stone, Newsweek and Sports Illustrated. If you care about photography, photographers, the editorial world or history in general, read on.
In late 2014, we reported that a gallery owner in Toronto named Stephen Bulger had purchased the entire collection of Vivian Maier negatives owned by
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Jeffrey Goldstein, who I’ve done a couple of exhibitions of and who over a number of years built up this collection of 17,500 Vivian Maier negatives really thought that Toronto would be a safe haven for them. And I think that he was wanting also to get back to his own life which he was enjoying before he got into his Vivian Maier project