Category: Interviews

  • Interview with Jim Dow: The Griffin Museum’s Focus Award Recipient for Lifetime Achievement | LENSCRATCH

    Interview with Jim Dow: The Griffin Museum’s Focus Award Recipient for Lifetime Achievement | LENSCRATCH

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    Interview with Jim Dow: The Griffin Museum’s Focus Award Recipient for Lifetime Achievement “What I love about Jim Dow’s pictures is that they’re not kidding.” Ian Frazier, American Studies (2011) On October 24th and 25th, the Griffin Museum of Photography will host the 2014 Focus Awards, an event that honors members of our community for…

  • Hysteria or proper precaution – a conversation with Michael Du Cille | Poynter.

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    Hysteria or proper precaution – a conversation with Michael Du Cille Kenny Irby interviewed Michel Du Cille, Washington Post photographer, about his work in Liberia covering the Ebola virus, but before we get into his work, we will address the controversial decision by Syracuse University to tell him not to come to a previously scheduled…

  • Ed Templeton: Plastic Plant Places at Photomonth « The Leica Camera

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    Ed Templeton: Plastic Plant Places at Photomonth Robert Frank said “Black and White is the color of photography” and I really like that statement. I think taking out the color gives a photo a timeless quality. I think color can ruin a perfectly well composed photo, and conversely color can sometimes raise a mediocre photo…

  • Witness the Hong Kong Protests on Instagram – LightBox

    Witness the Hong Kong Protests on Instagram – LightBox

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/10/03/hongkong-protests-instagram-photographer/ This week on #LightBoxFF, we speak with Alex Ogle (@alex_ogle), a Hong Kong-based photographer with Agence France-Presse, who has been covering the city’s unprecedented protests. He speaks to TIME about the power of mobile photography in times of change.

  • Stacy Pearsall: Paying It Forward — zPhotoJournal

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    Stacy Pearsall: Paying It Forward I’d have to say I spent the majority of my time thinking like a journalist – that’s what I was trained to do. In fact, I rarely carried a long rifle because I felt it distracted me from my real job. I kept a pistol on my hip for “oh…

  • B: Oscar Palomares: What Was He Thinking?

    B: Oscar Palomares: What Was He Thinking?

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    Oscar Palomares: What Was He Thinking? Oscar Palomares is a photographer based in Barcelona. More of his work can be found on Flickr and Facebook . • Catalunya Squar… Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2014/10/oscar-palomares-what-was-he-thinking.html I’d have to say I spent the majority of my time thinking like a journalist – that’s what I was trained to do. In…

  • Q&A with Kōan Collective Member Alex Potter | The Photo Brigade

    Q&A with Kōan Collective Member Alex Potter | The Photo Brigade

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    Q&A with Kōan Collective Member Alex Potter – The Photo Brigade Yemen-based photographer Alex Potter talks about Koan, the newest collective on the photo scene. via The Photo Brigade: http://thephotobrigade.com/2014/09/qa-with-koan-collective-member-alex-potter/ Kōan is the collaboration of five young journalists (Alex Potter, Allison Joyce, Amanda Mustard, Cooper Neill, and Nicolas Tanner) exploring both new and traditional means…

  • B: Q & A with Jeffrey Ladd

    B: Q & A with Jeffrey Ladd

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    Q & A with Jeffrey Ladd Jeffrey Ladd is a photographer and new father based in Cologne. • How did you wind up there [in Germany]? I’ve been coming here … Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2014/09/q-with-jeffrey-ladd.html Not off the top of my head but they would send emails with a selection of people’s work asking our thoughts and…

  • Stephen Wilkes: Time Machine — zPhotoJournal

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    Stephen Wilkes: Time Machine I see a lot out there and what I see is people who have talent and work hard…or think they work hard…but the priority they need to get to that special place is going to escape them. They don’t understand that the level of passion and drive that you have to…

  • Hall of Fame Winner Thomas Hoepker at photokina 2014 #DasWesentliche « The Leica Camera

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    Hall of Fame Winner Thomas Hoepker at photokina 2014 #DasWesentliche With simple humility, Thomas Hoepker has always seen himself as nothing more than an assignment photographer, someone interested in nothing less than the truth, in the honesty of the moment

  • Go Behind the Scenes with Celebrity Photographer Jeff Riedel – LightBox

    Go Behind the Scenes with Celebrity Photographer Jeff Riedel – LightBox

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/09/12/lightbox-follow-friday-jeff-riedel-polariods/#1 This week on #LightBoxFF, we speak to commercial and editorial photographer Jeff Riedel, (@jeff_riedel_polariods) whose meticulous approach to photography has not only landed his work on the pages of GQ, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone and Vogue, but has also helped him…

  • A Conversation with Martin Parr | burn magazine

    A Conversation with Martin Parr | burn magazine

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    A Conversation With Martin Parr [slidepress gallery=’martinparr_conversation’]Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls A Conversation With Martin Parrplay this essay David Alan Harvey: What I … via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/in-the-spotlight/2014/09/a-conversation-with-martin-parr/ When I try a new technique, I always do it first on the beach. There are about six phases of my photography career,…

  • Pete Muller: Chasing Ebola — zPhotoJournal

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    Pete Muller: Chasing Ebola I am perpetually fascinated with Africa’s extraordinary diversity and challenges. I think it’s only sensible that if an outsider has any hope of understanding the continent’s complexity, he or she must devote years to the pursuit. I’ve been working on the continent since 2007 and remain humble regarding the complex dynamics…

  • Facebook’s Photo Community Manager Is a War Photographer | VICE United States

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    Facebook’s Photo Community Manager Is a War Photographer We talked to him about the future of journalism and Instagram in space. via Vice: http://www.vice.com/read/teru-kuwayama-facebook-interview Four months ago, Teru Kuwayama was appointed photo community manager at Facebook—not a job you’d normally associate with a war photographer.

  • B: Nils Jorgensen: What Was He Thinking?

    B: Nils Jorgensen: What Was He Thinking?

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    Nils Jorgensen: What Was He Thinking? Nils Jorgensen is a minimalist based in London. •    Describe what was happening at the moment of exposure – Nothing as far… Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2014/08/nils-jorgensen-what-was-he-thinking.html Describe what was happening at the moment of exposure – Nothing as far as I recall.  I was wandering about, in a bit of…

  • “Indulge Your Curiosity. It’s the Basis of Creativity”: An Interview with Fred Lyon (Part I)

    “Indulge Your Curiosity. It’s the Basis of Creativity”: An Interview with Fred Lyon (Part I)

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    “Indulge Your Curiosity. It’s the Basis of Creativity”: An Interview with Fred Lyon (Part I) Editor’s note: In early February Rfotofolio had the pleasure of talking to photographer Fred Lyon. We are honored to share the first of two interviews via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2014/08/26/indulge-curiosity-basis-creativity-interview-fred-lyon-part-1/ Photography has constantly provided me with fresh opportunities. It is truly the…

  • Veteran photojournalist talks about going into hotspots | Poynter.

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    Veteran photojournalist talks about going into hotspots Ron Haviv, co-owner of VII Photo, whom I spoke with this week. He has been taken hostage three times

  • Judy Walgren: San Francisco Chronicle — zPhotoJournal

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    Judy Walgren: San Francisco Chronicle And to be honest, I love my photo editing team so much and would have killed to be able to shoot assignments like the ones we are dreaming up here at the Chronicle and then come back to get an amazing edit from Nicole Frugé, Russell Yip, Pete Kiehart or…

  • A Mountain of Uncertainty in Iraq

    A Mountain of Uncertainty in Iraq

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    A Mountain of Uncertainty in Iraq Adam Ferguson has been covering the refugee crisis in northern Iraq, where a persecuted minority has been trapped on a mountaintop. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/12/a-mountain-of-uncertainty-in-iraq/ Over the last four days, Adam Ferguson has photographed members of Iraq’s Yazidi minority religious group who had been surrounded on a mountaintop without…

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    A Conversation With Constantine Manos [slidepress gallery=’costamanos_interview’]Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controlsA Conversation With Constantine Manosplay this essay David Alan Harvey: So te… via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/in-the-spotlight/2014/08/a-conversation-with-costantine-manos/ I think what I have to say and what a lot of older photographers have to say is still relevant, especially the Magnum photographers who…