Category: Interviews

  • A Conversation with Joachim Brohm

    A Conversation with Joachim Brohm

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    A Conversation with Joachim Brohm via Conscientious Photography Magazine: http://cphmag.com/a-conversation-with-joachim-brohm/ Changes always result during the process of working, if you bring a certain openness to it. […] You have to be pretty stubborn to be able to repeat yourself all the time! – Joachim Brohm

  • Henri Cartier-Bresson: ‘There Are No Maybes’

    Henri Cartier-Bresson: ‘There Are No Maybes’

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    Henri Cartier-Bresson: ‘There Are No Maybes’ In 1971, Sheila Turner-Seed interviewed Henri Cartier-Bresson and other luminaries for a series of film strips that were lost until her daughter rediscovered them decades later. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/21/cartier-bresson-there-are-no-maybes/?_r=0 If you have little equipment, people don’t notice you. You don’t come like a show-off. It seems like an…

  • Art Producers Speak: Carlo Ricci

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    Art Producers Speak: Carlo Ricci – 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…

  • Henri Cartier-Bresson: Living and Looking

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    Link: Henri Cartier-Bresson: Living and Looking – NYTimes.com That’s a wonderful thing with a camera. It jumps out of you. I’m extremely impulsive. Terribly. It’s really a pain in the neck for my friends and family. I’m a bunch of nerves. But I take advantage of it in photography. I never think. I set, quick!…

  • A Conversation with Platon

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    About that Rand Paul Cover Photo…  An interview with Platon, who photographed this issue’s cover with Rand Paul, discussing the experience, his art, plus various portraits throughout.  via The New Republic: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113509/conversation-platon To be able to give someone the chance to express themselves, to tell their story on a platform that they would never normally…

  • Notes from the Field: Andrei Pungovschi in Istanbul

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    Link: Notes from the Field: Andrei Pungovschi in Istanbul | dvafoto Over the past two or so weeks of protests in Istanbul surrounding Gezi Park and Taksim Square, we’ve seen a lot of stories and photographs. Some of the first and best pictures I saw though were by my friend Andrei Pungovschi, a photographer based…

  • Art Producers Speak: Mark Tucker

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    Art Producers Speak: Mark Tucker – 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…

  • Scott Strazzante: Shooting from the Hip

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    Scott Strazzante: Shooting from the Hip By Jim Colton via NPPA: https://nppa.org/page/scott-strazzante-shooting-hip I no longer seek perfection; in fact, I embrace the flaws in mine and others’ photography. I seek out subtle images that allow me to linger and discover small surprises as I soak in an image’s content.  However, as a daily newspaper photographer,…

  • Alec Soth Interview – Part 2

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    Alec Soth Interview – Part 2 – A Photo Editor [Part 1 is here] by Jonathan Blaustein Jonathan Blaustein: You’ve got a publishing company, LBM, that you started in 2008. Is that right? Alec Soth: Correct. JB: It’s based in Minneapolis. You built a team of collaborators, and a print studio. How did tha via…

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    Alec Soth Interview – Part 1 – A Photo Editor by Jonathan Blaustein Jonathan Blaustein: When did you first start taking photographs? When did it all begin? Alec Soth: In high school, I had this experience that a lot of people have. I had a great teacher that woke me up. In that case, he…

  • Joshua Lutz

    Joshua Lutz

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    Joshua Lutz 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/2013/05/joshua-lutz.html I started taking pictures to have something to print. I did’t really like taking pictures so much, I liked printing. I liked escaping the world by being…

  • Art Producers Speak: Mark Lund

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    Art Producers Speak: Mark Lund – 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…

  • Conversation: Joe McNally

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    Joe McNally – Conversation [slidepress gallery=’joemcnally_interview’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT   Conversation with Joe McNally   Davi… via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2013/05/conversation-joe-mcnally/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+burnmag+%28burn+magazine%29 The main thing to remember as a young photographer out there is that there is always naysayers, and there is a lot of them out…

  • Formhals

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    Formhals Bryan Formals is a photographer based in Queens, NY, and the editor of LPV Magazine  and Photographs on the Brain . The following conversa… Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2013/04/formhals.html I use the star system. Just looking at A photos is so boring. I don’t even understand that logic. It’s this hierarchical thinking that I find counter intuitive.…

  • Art Producers Speak: Holly Andres

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    Art Producers Speak: Holly Andres – 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…

  • Todd Gross: What Was He Thinking?

    Todd Gross: What Was He Thinking?

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    Todd Gross: What Was He Thinking? Todd Gross is a photographer based in Queens, NY. More of his work can be seen here and here . • One of those days when… Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2013/04/todd-gross-what-was-he-thinking.html Roger Ballen grew up in New York City, surrounded by photographs and photographers—his mother was a picture editor for Magnum and…

  • Art Producers Speak: Adam Amengual

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    Art Producers Speak: Adam Amengual – 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…

  • John Sale, Keeping Connected

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    Photo Journal: John Sale, Keeping Connected Jim Colton: As the Assistant Managing Editor for Visuals at the Appeal, could you give our readers a basic breakdown of how many photographers, photo editors and staff you have working on visuals at the paper…including the online version as well? via NPPA: https://nppa.org/node/60888 Shoot stories at the heart…

  • NY Times: Interview with James Estrin

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    Link: NY Times: Interview with James Estrin | Le Journal de la Photographie The quality of the work was really high. We got 2700 applications. We selected 174 people but I would say about 150-200 others deserved this opportunity. It was really painful to cut these out

  • Interview with Michelle McNally

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    Link: Interview with Michelle McNally | Le Journal de la Photographie I’m hoping we get a little retro, in the sense that not everybody can take a picture that can be published. I’m still attached to the idea of working with a professional photographer. One who is smart, that I can trust, that is recording…