Category: Interviews

  • Julie Blackmon

    Julie Blackmon

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    Julie Blackmon 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/2013/04/julie-blackmon.html The way I’m working, I think image to image, rather than about the whole project. And then later I can detect the gradual shifts that have taken…

  • Interview: Jon Naiman on Familiar Territory

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    Interview: Jon Naiman on Familiar Territory Familiar Territory by Jon Naiman Published by Editions Patrick Frey Published by Edition Patrick Frey, Familiar Territory by Jon Naim… Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2013/04/interview-jon-naiman-on-familiar.html Familiar Territory by Jon Naiman is a beautifully designed large-scale monograph of unusual portraits. For this series, Naiman photographed families with the farm animals they keep, but…

  • A Chilling Look Inside Mexico’s Violent Drug War

    A Chilling Look Inside Mexico’s Violent Drug War

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    A Chilling Look Inside Mexico’s Violent Drug War Heavy Hand, Sunken Spirit documents the social costs and consequences of Mexico’s violent drug war. We recently talked to Detroit-born, Haiti-based photographer David Rochkind about his experience photographing a conflict that he says is increasingly “mel via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2013/04/a-chilling-look-inside-mexico%E2%80%99s-violent-drug-war/ Heavy Hand, Sunken Spirit documents the social…

  • Interview with Kodak’s lead engineer on the early Nikon-based Kodak DCS cameras | Nikon Rumors

    Interview with Kodak’s lead engineer on the early Nikon-based Kodak DCS cameras | Nikon Rumors

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    Interview with Kodak’s lead engineer on the early Nikon-based Kodak DCS cameras – Nikon Rumors NikonWeb published a very interesting interview with Kodak’s lead engineer James McGarvey on the early Nikon-based Kodak DCS cameras: Q: The Electro-Optic Camera – the World’s first DSLR – was designed and constructed for a US government client. The custo via Nikon Rumors:…

  • Marco del Pra’: An Obsessive Passion for Deceleration and Truth, Part 2

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    Link: Marco del Pra’: An Obsessive Passion for Deceleration and Truth, Part 2 « The Leica Camera My approach to photography going forward is to continue to shoot as much Tri-X film as possible. I tend to dismiss all this digital photography, Internet, Facebook, etc. I am fighting for deceleration, restoring my black-and-white darkroom. I…

  • Something more felt than known: a conversation with Curran Hatleberg

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    Link: Something more felt than known: a conversation with Curran Hatleberg | The Great Leap Sideways The photographs I make, either found or invented, are my own fictionalized version of America and its inhabitants. My work strives to mediate and reimagine the American experience, in hopes of communicating a personal understanding of our shared time…

  • Close Out: a conversation with Brian Ulrich

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    Link: Close Out: a conversation with Brian Ulrich | The Great Leap Sideways In this newer work, Brian has culled and edited together a collection of archival images made by press photographers at the time beginning with the end of World War II, and stretching on into the period of America’s Great Prosperity. These archival images, paired…

  • Bert Stern: The Original ‘Mad Man’

    Bert Stern: The Original ‘Mad Man’

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/04/03/bert-stern-the-original-mad-man/#1 On the theatrical release of a remarkably candid and revealing feature-length documentary on his life, Bert Stern: Original Mad Man, TIME sat down with Stern at his New York apartment to talk about his passions (women and photography), advertising, inspiration and…

  • Art Producers Speak: Young and Hungry: Anais & Dax

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    Art Producers Speak: Young and Hungry: Anais & Dax – 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…

  • Q & A with Richard Kalvar

    Q & A with Richard Kalvar

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    Q & A with Richard Kalvar Richard Kalvar is a photographer based in Paris. • BA: Where did you grow up?  RK: I grew up in Brooklyn (before it was fashionab… Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2013/03/q-with-richard-kalvar.html I think that there’s so much photography out there that not many people pay attention to my pictures. I have a certain…

  • Art Producers Speak: Billy Kidd

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    Art Producers Speak: Billy Kidd – 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…

  • Roger Ballen Interview

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    Roger Ballen Interview – A Photo Editor by Jonathan Blaustein Roger Ballen is among the most talented and successful photographic artists in the world today. He was kind enough to agree to an extensive interview last month, and is also allowing us to publish images from two forthcoming books. J via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2013/03/20/roger-ballen-interview/…

  • David Carol: An Interview with an Irreverent Master

    David Carol: An Interview with an Irreverent Master

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    David Carol: An Interview with an Irreverent Master The name David Carol may sound familiar.  He writes the Emerging Photographer Column for PDN and is a regular contributor to Rangefinder Magazine with his Photo Finish column.  He’s a taste maker and booming voice in the fine art community (often juroring via LENSCRATCH: http://www.lenscratch.com/2013/03/david-carol-interview-with-irreverent.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lenscratch%2FZAbG+%28L++E++N++S++C++R++A++T++C++H%29 Take your work…

  • Art Producers Speak: Jeff Luker

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    Art Producers Speak: Jeff Luker – 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…

  • Q & A with Liz Kuball

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    Link: Q & A with Liz Kuball | B What makes a photograph good? I don’t know. . . . For me, it’s visceral. Something about the photograph makes my heart ache.

  • Emerging Talent – Grant Hindsley

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    Link: Emerging Talent – Grant Hindsley | The Visual Student I always try to think about what I could do to make better pictures than last time, every time I put the camera to my eye.

  • Photo Journal: Eve Edelheit / Tampa Bay Times

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    Photo Journal: Eve Edelheit / Tampa Bay Times  By Jim ColtonInternships. The very word strikes fear and apprehension into the hearts of the thousands of college students and grads who apply for them every year as they take their first steps on their chosen paths. via NPPA: https://nppa.org/node/42644 The one thing that no one knows…

  • A Conversation with CPC 2012 Winner Karen Miranda Rivadeneira

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    Link: Conscientious Extended | A Conversation with CPC 2012 Winner Karen Miranda Rivadeneira A good photograph? When it leaves me with no words or not even a desire to understand or wonder what the photographer wants to say, when instead of rising my curiosity it leaves me in complete awe.

  • Success Stories: Lydia Panas

    Success Stories: Lydia Panas

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    Success Stories: Lydia Panas Today I have the great pleasure in interviewing photographer Lydia Panas about her well celebrated book and photographs.  I met Lydia a number of years ago when we were in a show together in New York, and have watched her career and work with great intere via LENSCRATCH: http://www.lenscratch.com/2013/02/success-stories-lydia-panas.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lenscratch%2FZAbG+%28L++E++N++S++C++R++A++T++C++H%29 I think…

  • An Extended Conversation with Francis Hodgson

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    Link: Conscientious Extended | An Extended Conversation with Francis Hodgson All good photographers have struggled to find ways to hold the viewer longer on the picture. This is either by such effects as Hockney’s joiners, collage, embroidery on or making holes in the picture… anything, in fact, to break up that slick surface and keep…