Category: Interviews

  • In conversation with Ernesto Bazan about his life and his new book ISLA

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    Link: In conversation with Ernesto Bazan about his life and his new book ISLA | dvafoto I can only say that I believe that having gone to Cuba wasn’t just another trip to a foreign land to discover and take pictures. Cuba, as I’ve said in the past, was one of the most important chapters…

  • Q&A: Vince Musi and the World of Exotic Pets

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    Q&A: Vince Musi and the World of Exotic Pets It all started with a haunted house. Or at least, a house former residents and neighbors said was haunted. When photographer Vince Musi purchased a home in 2004 on an island that once hosted Edgar Allen Poe, the residence came to life at night, but not…

  • The Bryan Formhals Mixtape

    The Bryan Formhals Mixtape

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    The Bryan Formhals Mixtape When you do find people that you connect with deeply, nurture those connections and build upon them. There are some absolutely wonderful, intelligent, forward thinking people swimming with the sharks. Find them, expand our fucking minds, show us new persp via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2014/03/the-bryan-formhals-mixtape/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lenscratch%2FZAbG+%28L++E++N++S++C++R++A++T++C++H%29 In 2005, I finished a screenplay and mailed…

  • Cedric Nunn: Gazing at the South African Landscape to Reconnect the Present with its History

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    Link: Cedric Nunn: Gazing at the South African Landscape to Reconnect the Present with its History « The Leica Camera Cedric Nunn, born in 1957, is a South African photographer. In the course of the interview, he connects his past steps as an engaged photographer against apartheid with his current concerns for social justice in…

  • Interview: Marija Janković’s “GAK”

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    Link: Interview: Marija Janković’s “GAK” | dvafoto A few months ago, at a Belgrade photo night called Periskop, I saw Marija Janković present one of her new projects about her time as a patient at a Serbian maternity hospital, which she calls GAK. The first time I saw this work, with Serbian text, I could…

  • Photo Journal: Gregory Heisler – Exploiter of Light

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    Photo Journal: Gregory Heisler – Exploiter of Light By Jim ColtonGeorge Eastman, founder of the Eastman Kodak company, once said: “Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.” via NPPA: https://nppa.org/page/photo-journal-gregory-heisler-exploiter-light Using light (artificial…

  • Jimmy Chin on Pushing the Envelope

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    Jimmy Chin on Pushing the Envelope “The biggest challenge for me is trying to be creative under physical duress.” —Jimmy Chin According to Jimmy Chin, “It takes a ton of creativity to push the boundaries at the front edge of action sports.” And he would know. Rock climber turned photograph via Photography: http://proof.nationalgeographic.com/2014/03/18/jimmy-chin-on-pushing-the-envelope/ According to…

  • Spotlight On Maggie Steber

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    Link: Spotlight On Maggie Steber | The Image, Deconstructed Eating dark chocolate in the middle of the night is a hidden secret pleasure. No one needs to know about it. In that way, it is mine alone. It’s like a secret garden, where I can retreat and work on something and it doesn’t matter whether…

  • Art Producers Speak: Topher Cox

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    Art Producers Speak: Topher Cox – A Photo Editor We emailed Art Buyers and Art Producers around the world asking them to submit names of established photographers who were keeping it fresh and up-and-comers who they are keeping their eye on. If you are an Art Buyer/Producer or an Art Director at an agen via…

  • Photo Expert Stephen Mayes on the Changing Future of Photography

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    Image Source Image Source offers a huge selection of premium royalty free stock photos. High quality royalty free images available on a royalty free license. via Image Source: http://www.imagesource.com/blog/stephen-mayes-on-photography/ In a fascinating interview with Image Source Art Director Stephanie Cabrera, Photography expert Stephen Mayes explores the work of photo-journalist Tim Hetherington, the wider impact of…

  • Covering the Russian Army in Crimea

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    Link: Covering the Russian Army in Crimea Sergey Ponomarev, 31, is a freelance photographer covering the conflict in Ukraine on assignment for The New York Times. He grew up in Moscow and also in Ireland, where his father worked as a journalist for Itar-Tass. He previously worked for The Associated Press. He spoke to James…

  • Photo Journal: Erika Larsen – A Quiet Elegance

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    Photo Journal: Erika Larsen – A Quiet Elegance By Jim ColtonPhotographs speak to us all in different ways. That’s part of the beauty of our craft. When I was a photo editor at Newsweek magazine, I loved images that captured the scene and told the story without the need of a caption. Similarly, when I…

  • The Cinematography of the Oscar Nominated 12 Years A Slave

    The Cinematography of the Oscar Nominated 12 Years A Slave

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/02/27/behind-the-moving-image-the-cinematography-of-12-years-a-slave/ I find that the single camera approach is the most efficient and effective because it also makes you concentrate, instead of just hoovering up a bunch of images and finding the scene in the edit. You have to make decisions on…

  • Anna Silveira: A Passion for Immortalizing Everyday Moments

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    Link: Anna Silveira: A Passion for Immortalizing Everyday Moments « The Leica Camera Anna Silveira uses photography to document and preserve the events and emotions that arise in the course of her subjects’ daily life experiences, or as she eloquently puts it, “to document the routine in a natural way without adornment or artifice.”

  • David Burnett | An Interview

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    Link: David Burnett | An Interview “If You Could Find Other Ways In Photojournalism To Put Talented Groups Of People Together, Good Editors, Our World Would Be Damn Near Perfect.” —David Burnett

  • Art Producers Speak: Greg Funnell

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    Art Producers Speak: Greg Funnell – A Photo Editor We emailed Art Buyers and Art Producers around the world asking them to submit names of established photographers who were keeping it fresh and up-and-comers who they are keeping their eye on. If you are an Art Buyer/Producer or an Art Director at an agen via…

  • 5 Questions for Sara Naomi Lewkowicz

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    Link: APAD blog Sara Lewkowicz is a native New Yorker pursuing a master’s degree in visual communication from Ohio University in Athens and received her bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has won several grants and awards, including the 2013 Alexia Student Grant and the 2013 Ville de…

  • Photo Journal: MaryAnne Golon – The Washington Post

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    Photo Journal: MaryAnne Golon – The Washington Post By Jim ColtonMost of us can recall exactly where we were and what we were doing when we heard about the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11th, 2001. via NPPA: https://nppa.org/page/photo-journal-maryanne-golon-washington-post In a word, Golon is tenacious. The same tenacity she…

  • A Conversation with Josh Quigley

    A Conversation with Josh Quigley

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    A Conversation with Josh Quigley via Conscientious Photography Magazine: http://cphmag.com/conv-quigley/ I wish I had some sort of “master plan” when I started this project. But no, “A Shameless Longing” is a series of evolutions and adaptations made over the years.

  • Moises Saman’s Stunning Photos See a Place Beyond Death

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    Moises Saman’s Stunning Photos See a Place Beyond Death I asked him how to keep your humanity in a warzone. via Vice: http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/moises-saman-interview-magnum-photography Peruvian photographer, Moises Saman, has spent his recent years living in Cairo, documenting the Arab Spring’s effect on the city’s residents. Though he might argue “documenting” is the wrong word. His work…