Category: Interviews

  • Cyril Jayant: Soothing the Soul through Photography

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    Link: Cyril Jayant: Soothing the Soul through Photography « The Leica Camera I believe when I photograph it represents my existence, my vision and my expression to be who I am. That is the connection between my photography and me. My path winds through photography, visual art, culture, everything and anything where creativity shows up.…

  • 25 Years of Visa Pour l’Image: A Tribute to Jean-François Leroy

    25 Years of Visa Pour l’Image: A Tribute to Jean-François Leroy

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/08/27/25-years-of-visa-pour-limage-a-tribute-to-jean-francois-leroy/#1 Jean-François Leroy launched Visa Pour l’Image, the international photojournalism festival, in Perpignan in 1989. Before heading up the festival, Leroy was shooting reportage for the agency Sipa Press and also working for Photo-Reporter, Le Photographe, Photo-Revue and Photo Magazine. He is…

  • Chris Capozziello – A Brother’s Love

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    Photo Journal: Chris Capozziello – A Brother’s Love August 26, 2013By Jim ColtonA brother’s love…there is nothing like it. Growing up, I had an older brother…although at times that fact could be debated…he didn’t always act like the elder. And as with any household, there was the sibling rivalry, the one-u via NPPA: https://nppa.org/page/photo-journal-chris-capozziello-brothers-love Photojournalists want…

  • IdeasTap Meets Magnum Photos

    IdeasTap Meets Magnum Photos

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    IdeasTap Meets Magnum Photos A special publication featuring exclusive interviews with 12 Magnum photographers by IdeasTap members via Issuu: http://issuu.com/ideastap/docs/ideastap_meets_magnum_final_opt A special publication featuring exclusive interviews with 12 Magnum photographers by IdeasTap members

  • ‘You are almost invisible’: An interview with Egyptian photographer Mosa’ab Elshamy

    ‘You are almost invisible’: An interview with Egyptian photographer Mosa’ab Elshamy

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    ‘You are almost invisible’: An interview with Egyptian photographer Mosa’ab Elshamy The widely followed photographer reflects on the Egyptian revolution and on finding intimate moments in big events. via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/08/20/you-are-almost-invisible-an-interview-with-egyptian-photographer-mosaab-elshamy/?wprss=rss_world If you’ve been following this month’s historic and often tragic events in Egypt at all, or even if you’ve walked past a newsstand,…

  • Theater of the Streets, Shot On Google Glass

    Theater of the Streets, Shot On Google Glass

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/08/19/theater-of-the-streets-shot-on-google-glass/ Today, “I finally feel like my eye is a camera,” says Richard Koci Hernandez, an Emmy award-winning multimedia producer, photojournalist and professor of New Media. Earlier this year, Hernandez, known for his popular @koci Instagram account featuring noir-style street photos taken…

  • Newsweek: An Autopsy (And an Ex-Photo Editor’s Lament)

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    Newsweek: An Autopsy (And an Ex-Photo Editor’s Lament) | PDNPulse A new exhibition co-curated by Marion Durand, a Newsweek photo editor and James Wellford, former senior photo editor who left Newsweek last year, celebrates some of the magazine’s achievements in visual storytelling, and also features images that were nev via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2013/08/newsweek-an-autopsy-and-an-ex-photo-editors-lament.html A new exhibition…

  • Connecting With Neighbors, in Baghdad or the Bronx

    Connecting With Neighbors, in Baghdad or the Bronx

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    Connecting With Neighbors, in Baghdad or the Bronx An exhibition of Michael Kamber’s photographs ponders the relationship between his portraits from the Bronx and from troubled places abroad. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/14/connecting-with-neighbors-in-baghdad-or-the-bronx/ Photojournalists try to humanize people every day, but especially when we’re covering news, it’s tough. People get reduced to the person being carted…

  • Róbert Csere and .týždeň

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    Photo Journal: Róbert Csere and .týždeň August 12, 2013By Jim Colton via NPPA: https://nppa.org/page/photo-journal-r%C3%B3bert-csere-and-t%C3%BD%C5%BEde%C5%88 Half the size of Indiana, Slovakia’s population is a whopping 5.4 million people. Reaching out to that audience as well as Slovaks abroad since 2004, .týždeň’s impact on visuals has not gone unnoticed here in the US where it has been…

  • Dominic Nahr Is a Master of Photographing Human Eeriness

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    Dominic Nahr Is a Master of Photographing Human Eeriness I interviewed him about life in Eastern Africa and nuclear exclusion zones. via Vice: http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/dominic-nahr-magnum?Contentpage=-1 For this round of VICE Loves Magnum we spoke to Dominic Nahr, who – unlike previous interviewees – is still running the gauntlet of selection before becoming a full Magnum member.…

  • Art Producers Speak: Nick Ruechel

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    Art Producers Speak: Nick Ruechel – 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…

  • A Conversation with Gerry Johansson

    A Conversation with Gerry Johansson

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    A Conversation with Gerry Johansson via Conscientious Photography Magazine: http://cphmag.com/convo-gerry-johansson/ Sometimes when I look through old prints or negatives I think “why on earth did I make that picture? Shouldn’t I have known better. What did I think of?” Probably I didn’t think at all, I just made it. You should allow yourself to do…

  • Shin Noguchi: Open for Interpretation

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    Link: Shin Noguchi: Open for Interpretation « The Leica Camera Shin Noguchi is a freelance graphic designer and street photographer based in Kamakura and Tokyo, Japan. He describes his street photography as an attempt to capture extraordinary moments of excitement, beauty and humanism among the flow of everyday life and has an approach that is…

  • Busted! Street Photographer (Purposely) Caught in the Act of Snapping Portraits on NYC Streets

    Busted! Street Photographer (Purposely) Caught in the Act of Snapping Portraits on NYC Streets

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    Busted! Street Photographer (Purposely) Caught in the Act of Snapping Portraits on NYC Streets I often relish the moment when someone locks a gaze with me. There is an awkwardness, confusion and unpredictability during this acknowledgment of the other—me, a stranger, suddenly doing what most people are taught not to do; staring. —Serge J-F. Levy…

  • Edwin Torres: Acting at a Moment’s Notice

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    Link: Edwin Torres: Acting at a Moment’s Notice « The Leica Camera Edwin J. Torres was born in the South Bronx of New York City, where he continues to live and work on his photography. Although he considers himself a serious enthusiast, his education includes two years of film photography at Colby College in Maine…

  • Photo Journal: April Saul

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    Photo Journal: April Saul July 29, 2013By Jim ColtonFamily first! It’s an adage we’ve heard all our lives and in all industries. But what if you’re an aspiring female photojournalist in the 1970’s and a preeminent photographer tells you, “If you want to do what I do, you can’t get via NPPA: https://nppa.org/page/photo-journal-april-saul “I would…

  • The Story Behind “Fly Over Me”

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    Link: The Story Behind “Fly Over Me” | The Visual Student “Fly Over Me intends to share modern rural American life in Valentine, NE, and the surrounding areas, through interactive documentary multimedia.”

  • Bruce Gilden Takes Street Photos Like You’ve Never Seen Before

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    Bruce Gilden Takes Street Photos Like You’ve Never Seen Before Whether they’re of Haitian hurricane survivors or Yakuza gang members. via Vice: http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/bruce-gilden-is-comfortable-taking-photos-of-strangers I wouldn’t call it challenging, but a little annoying. In Paris, you’ll always have one person who comes over and gives you the, “Why’d you take the picture, why’d you take the…

  • Philipp Spalek: The Crisis in Cairo

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    Link: Philipp Spalek: The Crisis in Cairo « The Leica Camera A: I would say Egypt in general is a challenge for photographers, especially for street photography. Many people feel responsible for what is going on in the streets, particularly after the security broke down. Foreigners with cameras are often being looked at skeptically. I…

  • Stephen DiRado

    Stephen DiRado

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    Stephen DiRado MW What inspired you to start taking photographs, and what have been some of the most important milestones in your career up until now? … Link: http://2waylens.blogspot.com/2013/06/stephen-dirado.html Also I am not afraid to fail because failure breeds success. Strange as it is, making an incredibly bad photograph, and be painfully aware of it,…