Category: Interviews

Moises Saman’s Stunning Photos See a Place Beyond Death

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 wilfully avoids a chronological, ordered, historical view of the uprising – instead focusing on honesty and emotions. We spoke to him about how he maintains faith in humanity after working in warzones for years, and the irrelevance of “objectivity” in relation to his work.

February 10, 2014
5 Questions for Kendrick Brinson

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 the client will call you again. Take the photos and share the photos that you want to get paid to make. It’s not easy, but you can do it.

February 4, 2014
Karen Kuehn – Burn Notice

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 line appeared in almost every major publication. Today, like so many photographers, she struggles finding the balance that will satisfy both her heart…and her rent.

February 3, 2014
Bronx Tales: An Interview with Chris Arnade

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 Street trader to focus on a burgeoning hobby, photographing addicts and prostitutes in the Bronx neighborhood of Hunts Point

January 29, 2014
5 Questions for Ian C. Bates

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 I pursue has changed drastically over the past two years or so. I have always been interested in the creation of imagery. I like the idea of documenting a changing world and when I look back at people like Robert Frank or Walker Evans work I see photographs that capture the history of then. Thats something I really enjoy with photography

January 23, 2014
Ananias Léki Dago: Being There Where Things Are Fragile

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 that follows a logic and tries to say more than what is seen at a first glance. You have to take the time to dissect each image, just as I take my time to create them. It’s a principal of framing that I have developed over time. It’s a thought-through disorder in which I organize several things at once. I try to say things subtly, to show things with delicacy

January 21, 2014
Five Questions for Sol Neelman

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 travel and appreciation for all people and things new, different and weird — as well as the desire to make everything fun — makes Sol one of my favorite people in the world. He also encourages that in others, which I love and appreciate.

January 15, 2014
Mary Ellen Mark

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 – for example, the photograph that Eddie Adams took of General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner or the photograph that Nick Ut took of the burned child running down the street — it’s very important to make people aware of what’s going on in the world.

January 14, 2014
Portfolio Reviews – Review Santa Fe

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 Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2014/01/14/portfolio-reviews-review-santa-fe/

I took the opportunity of their annual call for entries to interview the Executive Director, Laura Pressley. She brings together a very high level group of Gallerists, Curators, Photo Editors, Book Publisher and Photographers annually for the event, which is no easy task. What’s always impressed me more is her ability to network, forge relationships and engage a group of people who have zero time for anything extra. Ask any additional questions you have in the comments.

January 14, 2014
Marco Grob: Rejection to Redemption

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

This week, we have a conversation with the very talented and extremely personable Marco Grob.

January 13, 2014
A conversation with Dorothee Deiss

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 for exposing someone as a freak. But to what extent do we project ourselves when we consider a portrait as a caricature because we cannot deal with our own awkwardness?

January 13, 2014
Spotlight on Angelo Merendino

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 on the Internet can be sterile and Jen wanted to share what it was like from her perspective. At first my photographs were heavy handed. I would make a photograph of a bag of chemotherapy and expect people to understand how messed up it was that my wife had cancer. The photographs were sterile, just like the internet content Jen and I didn’t like.

Then it hit me that I was thinking too much and I just needed to listen to my gut. I decided that the best way to make these photographs would be to always be prepared with my exposure and when I felt something, then I would make a photo. If it moved me, it meant something. The thing is, making these photographs was always second to taking care of Jennifer. I had no intentions of making a book or having exhibitions. These photographs were a way for us to communicate with our family and friends. I wasn’t working with an editor and thinking about the different shots I should be making.

via APAD blog

January 6, 2014
Observance, an exhibition by The New York Times’ James Estrin

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 Photography: http://www.bjp-online.com/2014/01/observance-an-exhibition-by-the-new-york-times-james-estrin/

James Estrin is best-known in photography circles for his work on Lens, a photography blog at The New York Times. But the editor is also a senior staff photographer, and next week, for the first time in 20 years, he will be showing his own work – a project called Observance

January 3, 2014
Yunghi Kim: Core Values

Yunghi Kim: Core Values

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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, in whatever form that takes, photojournalism as an industry is dead!”

December 24, 2013
Peter Essick’s Journey into Environmental Photojournalism

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, and in 2010 we explored Greenland as it “greens up” in the face of rising global temperatures

December 11, 2013
In Ford’s White House, Not Holding Back

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 Gerald R. Ford’s White House photographer. Though it was sometimes difficult — as when the Fords cried after his 1976 election loss — Mr. Kennerly said he did not. “I think it comes from my background,” he said. “It comes from journalism.”

December 11, 2013
Ben Lowy: Embracing Change

Ben Lowy: Embracing Change

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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 I’ve made a difference….or helped some of the people that I’ve photographed in places like Afghanistan or Iraq. I mean, what impact have my images made…besides perhaps educating people? And here, I personally have a chance of helping someone.

December 9, 2013
Recalling and Covering Nelson Mandela

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 Mr. Mandela in a conversation with James Estrin earlier this year

December 6, 2013
Magnum Photos Workshop Showcase: Olya Morvan

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 workshop earlier this year, is the first Magnum Photos Workshop participant to be featured as part of the agency’s partnership with British Journal of Photography

December 4, 2013
Brad Smith: Return Engagement

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 gone from a weekly magazine to a 24-hour news service that covers the world of sports.

November 25, 2013