Category: Interviews

  • 5 Questions for Kendrick Brinson

    5 Questions for Kendrick Brinson

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    5 Questions for Kendrick Brinson Kendrick Brinson is a redhead (if you know any redheads, this explains a lot). She is a documentary, portrait, and lifestyle photographer (take that, boxes), who now resides in Los Angeles, California… via APAD blog: http://blog.aphotoaday.org/post/75587914438/5-questions-for-kendrick-brinson Save money. Make contacts (through Agency Access, photo conferences, Facebook). Nail each shoot so…

  • Karen Kuehn – Burn Notice

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    Photo Journal: Karen Kuehn – Burn Notice By Jim Colton via NPPA: https://nppa.org/page/photo-journal-karen-kuehn-burn-notice Back in the day when magazine photojournalism was strong and assignments were plentiful just maintaining a visual presence and having a unique style got you work. We all know that’s no longer the case. In the 80s and 90s, Karen Kuehn’s credit…

  • Bronx Tales: An Interview with Chris Arnade

    Bronx Tales: An Interview with Chris Arnade

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    Bronx Tales: An Interview with Chris Arnade Aside from a few notorious individuals—Henry Ford, perhaps, or Bernie Madoff—few people get to experience life at society’s top and bottom. Chris Arnade is an exception. Two years… via the literate lens: http://theliteratelens.com/2014/01/29/bronx-tales-an-interview-with-chris-arnade/ Chris Arnade is an exception. Two years ago, Arnade quit his job as a Wall…

  • 5 Questions for Ian C. Bates

    5 Questions for Ian C. Bates

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    5 Questions for Ian C. Bates Ian C. Bates was born in 1992 in New Jersey and does not know Snooki. He impulsively photographs the world around him while working for clients such as Fortune, The Wall Street Journal and The New… via APAD blog: http://blog.aphotoaday.org/post/74203632457/5-questions-for-ian-c-bates The reasoning behind every picture I make or story…

  • Ananias Léki Dago: Being There Where Things Are Fragile

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    Link: Ananias Léki Dago: Being There Where Things Are Fragile « The Leica Camera Indeed, my images are often layered, offering several possibilities of interpretation. I like carving up space, creating constructions in which I can introduce openings that allude, for example, to hope. I also oppose forms or insist on lines. It’s a language…

  • Five Questions for Sol Neelman

    Five Questions for Sol Neelman

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    5 Questions for Sol Neelman SOL NEELMAN is a failed athlete turned sports photographer living in his home city of Portland, Oregon. A journalism graduate from the University of Oregon, he began his professional career in 1996… via APAD blog: http://blog.aphotoaday.org/post/73413517456/5-questions-for-sol-neelman His pursuit of turning his personal passion into his life’s work, endless love of…

  • Mary Ellen Mark

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    Link: NEWSLINK – Winter 2014 I think what photography can do is open up all sorts of lives for people — worlds that people couldn’t understand. Some of the very dramatic pictures people have done, particularly of wars, the Vietnam war especially (because access was better), made people aware of how horrible it was –…

  • Portfolio Reviews – Review Santa Fe

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    Portfolio Reviews – Review Santa Fe – A Photo Editor I believe, when done right with a little luck/good timing thrown in, portfolio reviews can be very beneficial to photographers. I joined the Board of Directors at the non-profit Center in Santa Fe (full disclosure) over a year ago and have really enjoyed via A Photo…

  • Marco Grob: Rejection to Redemption

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    Marco Grob: Rejection to Redemption By Jim ColtonFor those of us who are diminutive in stature — I am but five feet five inches tall — we have a common unspoken bond with others possessing ED (Elevation Deficiency) I was always FIRST in line in public school as they entered the auditorium via NPPA: https://nppa.org/page/marco-grob-rejection-redemption…

  • A conversation with Dorothee Deiss

    A conversation with Dorothee Deiss

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    A conversation with Dorothee Deiss via Conscientious Photography Magazine: http://cphmag.com/conversation-deiss/ You can tell a lot about a person from their face, but the way we perceive that face and body also tells a lot about ourselves. Our own prejudices have to be questioned the moment we look at somebody’s face. I have been frequently accused…

  • Spotlight on Angelo Merendino

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    Link: Spotlight on Angelo Merendino | The Image, Deconstructed Jennifer was comfortable with me having a camera and she was open with sharing her experience; she kept a blog about her experience and felt it was important to share what she was going through. So much of the information about breast cancer that is available…

  • Observance, an exhibition by The New York Times’ James Estrin

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    Observance, an exhibition by The New York Times’ James Estrin James Estrin is usually the one writing about new photography exhibitions. The senior staff photographer and co-editor, with David Gonzalez, of The New York Times’ Lens has presented the work of hundreds of photographers, often for the first time, in the via British Journal of…

  • Yunghi Kim: Core Values

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    Yunghi Kim: Core Values Tweet via NPPA: https://nppa.org/page/yunghi-kim-core-values Veteran photojournalist Yunghi Kim is a strong proponent of photographer’s rights and offers suggestions to problems that all photographers now face as they tread through the morass of digital landmines. She also is quite vocal regarding protecting the value of one’s work. Kim says, “without monetary support,…

  • Peter Essick’s Journey into Environmental Photojournalism

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    Link: Peter Essick’s Journey into Environmental Photojournalism | PROOF Peter and I have traveled the road of environmental photojournalism together, teaming on 14 stories with subjects as diverse as nuclear waste, paleoclimatology, America’s wilderness, and the chemical pollution cocktail we each carry inside us. We collaborated on a 74-page climate change project in September 2004,…

  • In Ford’s White House, Not Holding Back

    In Ford’s White House, Not Holding Back

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    In Ford’s White House, Not Holding Back In the second part of a two-part series on photographing in the White House, David Hume Kennerly discusses his work with presidents as well as recent controversies over access. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/11/in-fords-white-house-not-holding-back/?_r=0 Someone once asked David Hume Kennerly if he ever held back when he was President…

  • Ben Lowy: Embracing Change

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    Ben Lowy: Embracing Change Tweet via NPPA: https://nppa.org/page/ben-lowy-embracing-change Sometimes I feel like the work that I’ve done hasn’t really changed anything. This is just me…this is my own personal thing. I’m not going to speak for other journalists who have covered things all over the world. I’ve covered Libya, but I don’t really know if…

  • Recalling and Covering Nelson Mandela

    Recalling and Covering Nelson Mandela

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    Recalling and Covering Nelson Mandela Ozier Muhammad, a Times staff photographer, worried he had missed his chance to photograph all the monumental events of civil rights history. Then he documented the first post-apartheid elections. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/06/recalling-and-covering-nelson-mandela/?_r=0 Among those he influenced was Ozier Muhammad, a New York Times staff photographer, who reminisced about covering…

  • Magnum Photos Workshop Showcase: Olya Morvan

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    Magnum Photos Workshop Showcase: Olya Morvan Earlier this year, Magnum Photos and British Journal of Photography announced a special partnership around education that sees the world’s longest running photography magazine work with the participants of Magnum Photos’ international workshop program to via British Journal of Photography: http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/project/2316867/magnum-photos-workshop-showcase-olya-morvan Ukrainian photographer Olya Morvan, who attended Raghu Rai’s…

  • Brad Smith: Return Engagement

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    Brad Smith: Return Engagement Jim Colton via NPPA: https://nppa.org/page/brad-smith-return-engagement This week, Photo Journal has a conversation with Brad Smith as he talks about his path…that has taken him from a French photo agency to the White House, from Circus magazine to the New York Times…and gives us an inside look on how Sports Illustrated has…

  • Yunghi Kim: Master Of Standing Ground

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    Yunghi Kim: Master Of Standing Ground – Digital Photo Pro With thirty years of war photography under her belt, photojournalist Yunghi Kim is turning to more personal work via Digital Photo Pro: http://www.digitalphotopro.com/profiles/yunghi-kim-master-of-standing-ground.html With thirty years of war photography under her belt, photojournalist Yunghi Kim is turning to more personal work