Category: Interviews

  • Josef Koudelka: Formed by the World

    Josef Koudelka: Formed by the World

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    Josef Koudelka: Formed by the World Josef Koudelka has traveled the globe, photographing on his own terms. But as he puts the world in his viewfinder, the world shapes him in return. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/19/josef-koudelka-formed-by-the-world/?_r=0 I don’t like picture stories. In fact I think picture stories destroyed all photography. You needed to have a…

  • Interview: Nick Brandt

    Interview: Nick Brandt

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    Interview: Nick Brandt Ranger With Tusks of Killed Elephant , Amboseli, 2011 Nick Brandt has long been dedicated to photographing the vanishing wildlife of Ea… Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2013/11/interview-nick-brandt.html Directing is a frustrating business. Vast, precious tracts of your life, when in theory you are at your most creative and energetic, are consumed with projects that ultimately…

  • Brief Interviews With Very Small Publishers

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    Brief Interviews With Very Small Publishers – The Morning News Magazine publishing is a dark art. But the world of niche publishing—people who create magazines for necrophiliacs or donkey hobbyists, or for those of us who like to ride really small trains—features its own requirements. via The Morning News: http://www.themorningnews.org/article/brief-interviews-with-very-small-publishers Magazine publishing is a dark…

  • Andy Summers: Surrealism of Everyday Life, Part 1

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    Link: Andy Summers: Surrealism of Everyday Life, Part 1 « The Leica Camera Andy Summers has been a photographer since the early 1980s when he was the guitarist with The Police. He has published three books of photography: “Throb” with William Morrow & Company in 1983, “I’ll Be Watching You” with Taschen in 2007 and…

  • The Brooks Jensen Mixtape

    The Brooks Jensen Mixtape

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    The Brooks Jensen Mixtape Good art is rarely made by dolts who are disorganized, numb, or unthinking. The mad genius is a popular myth in art circles, but more often than not the best artists are the ones who work the hardest for the longest time, pushing themselves and their craf via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2013/11/brooks-jensen-mixtape/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lenscratch%2FZAbG+%28L++E++N++S++C++R++A++T++C++H%29 Good…

  • On Being a Woman Photographer With Maggie Steber and Lynn Johnson

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    Link: On Being a Woman Photographer With Maggie Steber and Lynn Johnson | PROOF Both photographers have experienced the sexist and patronizing manner of colleagues and bosses. Yet they have used those experiences to their advantage. I sat down separately with Johnson and Steber to talk about being women in a traditionally male field and…

  • Dennis Dimick – An Environmental Portrait

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    Photo Journal: Dennis Dimick – An Environmental Portrait By Jim ColtonGrowing up as a teenager is the 1960’s with both parents in the journalism field, (Dad, the Director of Photography for the Associated Press and Mom the Art Director for People Magazine) there were always magazines and newspapers in the house via NPPA: https://nppa.org/page/photo-journal-dennis-dimick-environmental-portrait I…

  • Interview with MOPA curator Chantel Paul

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    Interview with MOPA curator Chantel Paul – A Photo Editor Jonathan Blaustein: Thanks so much for agreeing to chat. I was hoping you might be able to give our audience the inside scoop on how an exhibition takes shape, from idea to execution. MOPA just had the big opening for its second triennial, on which…

  • Too Much is Not Enough

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    Too Much Is Not Enough National Geographic magazine will present “The Power of Photography: National Geographic 125 Years” at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles from October 26, 2013, through April 27, 2014. National Geographic’s director of photography, Sarah L via Photography: http://proof.nationalgeographic.com/2013/10/25/too-much-is-not-enough/ So we’re driving along, and I’m thinking about how to…

  • David Maisel Interview

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    David Maisel Interview – A Photo Editor Earlier this summer, I caught up with David Maisel, a few weeks after reviewing his new book “Black Maps.” He recently began working with Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York, and has a solo show up at Haines Gallery in San Francisco through October 26th via A Photo…

  • Conversation With Elizabeth Krist and Kathryn Keane

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    Conversation With Elizabeth Krist and Kathryn Keane Conversations is an ongoing series where photographers, editors, and curators talk about concepts in photography as well as recent projects. Today, we bring together two of the forces behind the new exhibition “Women of Vision: National Geographic Photogr via Photography: http://proof.nationalgeographic.com/2013/10/10/conversation-with-elizabeth-krist-and-kathryn-keane/ Today, we bring together two of the…

  • Photo Journal: Peter Turnley – Part 1

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    Photo Journal: Peter Turnley – Part 1 By Jim ColtonA young man walks into the brasserie at 55 Quai de Bourbon on Isle Saint-Louis in Paris, in the mid 1970s. He is confident. Fresh from Fort Wayne, Indiana, he’s been practicing his French and is now prepared to ply his newly learned linguisti via NPPA:…

  • JR – Conversation

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    JR – Conversation Conversation with JR   David Alan Harvey: The reason I am interested in you is because you’re a pop star, yet you do good things for people. You have brought art to the streets for everyone to… via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/10/jr-conversation/ I don’t think I’m a street artist anymore or photographer. I…

  • John Gossage Interview – Part 2

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    John Gossage Interview – Part 2 – A Photo Editor Jonathan Blaustein: Photography is a crazy thing to do with one’s time. And a crazy thing to devote one’s life to. It’s obvious that you’ve given almost everything a lot of thought. What do you think it is about this particular method of expression, as…

  • Tyler Hicks Photographs the Nairobi Mall Attack

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    Link: Tyler Hicks Photographs the Nairobi Mall Attack | dvafoto He was interviewed by James Estrin of the New York Times’ Lens Blog about what he saw and they published a gallery of the terrific and harrowing photographs that Hicks took inside of the Westgate mall yesterday.

  • A Conversation with Thomas Weski

    A Conversation with Thomas Weski

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    A Conversation with Thomas Weski via Conscientious Photography Magazine: http://cphmag.com/conv-thomas-weski/ What all of these artists have in common is that I often don’t understand their work right away, that I maybe even initially reject it or file it away too quickly in some drawer. But they all pull me back and ask me to re-engage…

  • Zack Arias Interview

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    Zack Arias Interview – A Photo Editor Jonathan Blaustein: What’s the story with the beard? How long have you had that not-quite-quasi-ZZ-Top-looking thing? Zack Arias: I have not seen my chin in sixteen years. I had a goatee after high school, and then in ’95, I went on a trip around the US, via A…

  • ‘The Best Photo From Vietnam’: One Photographer’s Defining Image of War

    ‘The Best Photo From Vietnam’: One Photographer’s Defining Image of War

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/09/11/the-best-photo-from-vietnam-one-photographers-defining-image-of-war/#1 Like the soldiers he was photographing, Art Greenspon was in his 20s when he traveled to Vietnam to document the war. After five months in-country, Greenspon went on a two-day patrol with soldiers in the A Shau valley, just inside the…

  • David Alan Harvey’s Beautiful Photos of Poverty and Beach Parties

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    David Alan Harvey’s Beautiful Photos of Poverty and Beach Parties He’s been everywhere from the dirt-poor towns of Virginia to the dirt-poor favelas of Rio de Janeiro, along the way amassing an amazing portfolio of startling images. We talked to him about where he comes from. via Vice: http://www.vice.com/read/david-alan-harvey-vice-loves-magnum Life is all about how you…

  • Sam Abell Interview

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    Sam Abell Interview – A Photo Editor Jonathan Blaustein: Are you still in love with photography, or has it gotten boring after all these years? Sam Abell: That’s a good question. I was asked by a student what my most significant accomplishment was at National Geographic, after thirty years, via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2013/09/04/sam-abell-interview/ It’s…