Category: Interviews
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Five Easy Questions with Becky Lebowitz Hanger – the Photo Department
Five Easy Questions with Becky Lebowitz Hanger Becky Lebowitz Hanger is a photo editor at The New York Times and graduated from the University of Missouri in 2000 with MA in journalism. In March, along with photo editor Jeffrey Furticella, her work was awarded First Place in the Newspaper Editing Portfolio category of POYi.
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1000 Words Photography Magazine Blog: Sean O’Hagan: “If you don’t annoy some people some of the time, you’re not doing your job properly!”
Sean O’Hagan: “If you don’t annoy some people some of the time, you’re not doing your job properly!” In the first of a new series of interviews with members of the international photography community – writers, curators, collect… Link: http://1000wordsphotographymagazine.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/sean-ohagan-i-guess-if-you-dont-annoy.html?m=1 I’ll be glad to see the back of (too) big prints, which everyone seemed to…
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Reid Callanan Founder Of Santa Fe Workshops | A Photo Editor
Reid Callanan Founder Of Santa Fe Workshops – A Photo Editor Jonanthan Blaustein: When did you fall in love with photography? Reid Callanan: My junior year of college, which I spent abroad in London. I was a geology major in college, at St. Lawrence University, and couldn’t find a geology program to mesh into in…
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Photo District News: Photo Editor Amy Wolff
Photo District News: Photo Editor Amy Wolff – A Photo Editor I had the pleasure of connecting with Amy Wolff, Photo Editor at Photo District News. In order to frame the interview properly I asked her to explain her role at the magazine. Amy: Though my title is “photo editor,” the job description is…
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Photo Camp Kenya: Teaching the Language of Photography | PROOF
Photo Camp Kenya: Teaching the Language of Photography As a photojournalist for the New York Times, Kirsten Elstner recalls musing with colleagues about how interesting it would be to put cameras in the hands of the people they were traveling the world to photograph, and let them tell their own stories. For the past decade,…
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APAD blog
5 Questions for Ross Mantle Ross Mantle lives and works between Brooklyn, NY and his native Pittsburgh, Pa. His work often focuses on the relationships between person and place. He regularly photographs throughout the Northeast… via APAD blog: http://blog.aphotoaday.org/post/85849462295/5-questions-for-ross-mantle no matter where I made the image it always had hints of Western Pennsylvania. Instead of…
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Three of VII: The Life of a Photograph | PROOF
Three of VII: The Life of a Photograph I corresponded via email with three prolific VII photographers—Ashley Gilbertson, Ron Haviv and Gary Knight—on the things that motivate and inspire them.
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Deanne Fitzmaurice – Multi-Tasker
Photo Journal: Deanne Fitzmaurice – Multi-Tasker By Jim ColtonSo you won a Pulitzer Prize…nice…but what have you done lately? Well, if you’re Deanne Fitzmaurice, you’ve followed and photographed the subject of your Pulitzer for almost 10 years; created a camera bag and accessories company; launched via NPPA: https://nppa.org/page/photo-journal-deanne-fitzmaurice-multi-tasker So I screwed up my great moment…
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The Last Sentimentalist: a Q. & A. with Duane Michals
The Last Sentimentalist: A Q. & A. with Duane Michals Michals talks to Siobhan Bohnacker about his early work, and about his dream-like portraits of Marcel Duchamp, René Magritte, and Andy Warhol. via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/sandbox/portfolio/michals-empty-ny/ The photographer Duane Michals is perhaps best known for his “fictionettes”: dream-like stagings in which Marcel Duchamp, René…
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Water, Pestilence, Power: Q&A with Mustafah Abdulaziz
Water, Pestilence, Power: Q&A with Mustafah Abdulaziz An American photographer travels the world to document the myriad relationships between humans and water. via Roads & Kingdoms: http://roadsandkingdoms.com/2014/water-pestilence-power-qa-with-mustafah-abdulaziz/ The overcrowded slums of Freetown, the capital, became a breeding ground for the outbreak, where having safe water made the difference between life and death. It was there…
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Q & A with Alec Soth
Q & A with Alec Soth Alec Soth is a photographer based in St. Paul, MN. • BA: You wrote recently on the relationship between popularity and quality…. Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2014/05/q-with-alec-soth.html When I did Sleeping by the Mississippi, I gave away contact prints of Charles (the guy with the airplanes) never thinking it would be popular…
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Conversation: Christopher Morris and Jošt Franko
Link: Conversation: Christopher Morris and Jošt Franko | PROOF As a part of the VII Mentor Program, emerging photographer Jošt Franko has been mentored by VII member Christopher Morris for the past two years. In this edition of Conversations, Morris talks about what sets Franko’s work apart, Franko shares his future goals, and together they…
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New Space and New Conversations for I.C.P.
Link: New Space and New Conversations for I.C.P. The International Center of Photography recently announced that it would be leaving its museum space on Sixth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan at the end of this year. It has not yet disclosed plans for temporary or permanent exhibition space. Mark Lubell, the former director of Magnum Photos,…
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Photo Journal: Sacha Lecca – Rolling Stone
Photo Journal: Sacha Lecca – Rolling Stone By Jim ColtonLike many people in our industry, I too thought I was going to be a professional photographer. When I was 7-years-old, my father, professional photographer William J. “Sandy” Colton, let me use his Olympus Pen camera…fully loaded with one 36 via NPPA: https://nppa.org/page/photo-journal-sacha-lecca-rolling-stone This week, we…
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Benjamin Lowy: “The end of Instagram?”
Link: Benjamin Lowy: “The end of Instagram?” » FLTR Maybe I’ll create another name on Instagram and just post pictures of my brunch. Or maybe I’ll just start photographing cats.
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Maggie Steber – Rite of Passage
Photo Journal: Maggie Steber – Rite of Passage By Jim Colton via NPPA: https://nppa.org/page/photo-journal-maggie-steber-rite-passage In a recent project “Rite of Passage,” Maggie documents her mother’s journey through her final years battling dementia. The pictures are profound and deeply moving.
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Q&A: Renée C. Byer’s Living on a Dollar A Day
Q&A: Renée C. Byer’s Living on a Dollar A Day “I think of myself as a journalist who chooses the art of photography to bring awareness to the world. Art is a powerful means of expression, but combined with journalism it has the ability to bring awareness to issues that can elevate understanding and c…
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Go Creative show talks Mad Men with Director of Photography Chris Manley
Go Creative show talks Mad Men with Director of Photography Chris Manley – Newsshooter By site editor Dan Chung: Like many others I’m a huge fan of Mad Men and our partner Ben Consoli at the Go Creative show has been very fortunate having Director of Photography Chris Manley ASC on the latest podcast. Best…
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Interview: Stephen Shore on A New York Minute and From Galilee to the Negev
Interview: Stephen Shore on A New York Minute and From Galilee to the Negev Interview Stephen Shore on New York Minute and From Galilee to the Negev Stephen Shore speaks to photo-eye’s Melanie McWhorter … Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2014/03/interview-stephen-shore-on-new-york.html New from Phaidon are two publications by Stephen Shore. Available now, A New York Minute is the first…