Category: Interviews

  • Innovator: Brad Mangin

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    Innovator: Brad Mangin Freelance sports photographer Brad Mangin has many claims to fame: one, according to him, is being the last photographer on earth to get an iPhone. While that claim may be hard to prove, another will be substantiated when Instant Baseball is published thi via NPPA: https://nppa.org/node/27177 Freelance sports photographer Brad Mangin has…

  • Alex Webb’s Career in Street Photography

    Alex Webb’s Career in Street Photography

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    Alex Webb: Rendering a Complex World, in Color and Black-and-White For the Magnum photographer Alex Webb, how a picture turns out isn’t always up to him. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/08/alex-webb-rendering-a-complex-world-in-color-and-black-and-white/ For someone who says 99 percent of street photography is about failure, Alex Webb has had a notably successful career. From his early work in…

  • Lawrence Schiller Talks to Elizabeth Avedon

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    Link: Lawrence Schiller Talks to Elizabeth Avedon | Le Journal de la Photographie “When Bob Jackson shot the famous picture of Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald, I was in the basement but I didn’t get a clear shot. I went to the newspaper and I saw the print coming out of the hypo. I…

  • Helmut Newton, the 1975 interview

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    Link: Helmut Newton, the 1975 interview | Le Journal de la Photographie HN: Yes, voyeurism in photography is a necessary and professional sickness. Look at, capture, observe, frame, target. These are the laws of our field. The world is totally different when I look at it through the viewfinder. I always take a step back…

  • Lise Sarfati talks to Elizabeth Avedon

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    Link: Lise Sarfati talks to Elizabeth Avedon | Le Journal de la Photographie “I have an inner sense of color. I do not even think about it. I do believe color gives a special meaning to my work. The color gives balance or imbalance to an image or sets a mood if the image is…

  • In Focus, a Shining Star

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    Photo Journal: In Focus, a Shining Star By Jim Colton via NPPA: https://www.nppa.org/page/photo-journal-focus-shining-star It is the opinion of this photo editor that he has one of the keenest eyes in the business and is as gifted as any journalist I have ever met. To delve a bit deeper into his thought process we had a…

  • Sarah Stankey interviews Mark Brautigam

    Sarah Stankey interviews Mark Brautigam

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    Sarah Stankey interviews Mark Brautigam Introducing editorial assistant Sarah Stankey as she shares a recent interview she conducted with Mark Brantigam… In October, I was met with the great opportunity to work with Aline and LENSCRATCH. Currently, I am a senior photography student at the Mil via LENSCRATCH: http://www.lenscratch.com/2012/12/sarah-stankey-interviews-mark-brautigam.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lenscratch%2FZAbG+%28L++E++N++S++C++R++A++T++C++H%29 A great benefit to me in…

  • Christos Kapatos: What Was He Thinking?

    Christos Kapatos: What Was He Thinking?

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    Christos Kapatos: What Was He Thinking? Christos Kapatos is a photographer based in Athens, Greece. More of his work can be found here  and here . • “This one is one of… Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2012/12/christos-kapatos-what-was-he-thinking.html When I saw the scene, I just thought to frame him with the Asian tourist girls. He was so big and…

  • Jonathan Becker Talks to Elizabeth Avedon

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    Link: Jonathan Becker Talks to Elizabeth Avedon | Le Journal de la Photographie I recently spoke with Jonathan about meeting Brassaï in Paris, the exclusive front room tables of Elaine’s in Manhattan, and iconic art director Bea Feitler’s final project designing the prototype for the premiere issue of the revived Vanity Fair.

  • Interview with New Mexico Museum of Art Photography Curator Katherine Ware

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    Interview with New Mexico Museum of Art Photography Curator Katherine Ware – A Photo Editor by Jonathan Blaustein Katherine Ware is the curator of photography at the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe. In 2011, she curated the blockbuster landscape photography exhibition, “Earth Now: American Photographers and the Environment.” We caught up ea…

  • Breathtaking Photos of Deserts Shot from a Paraglider

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    Link: Breathtaking Photos of Deserts Shot from a Paraglider | Feature Shoot There I can see the world in a more 3-dimensional way; you can make people out and see what they’re doing, you can see what ethnic group they are, you can see if its a donkey or a camel. When you get up…

  • Tyler Hicks’s Photos of the Conflict in Gaza

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    Link: Tyler Hicks’s Photos of the Conflict in Gaza – NYTimes.com Tyler Hicks has spent the last 10 days covering the fighting in Gaza City, and its aftermath. Mr. Hicks, a New York Times staff photographer, spoke with James Estrin by phone on Friday night from Gaza City

  • Alec Soth–on Influence, Summer Nights, and Allen Ginsberg

    Alec Soth–on Influence, Summer Nights, and Allen Ginsberg

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    Alec Soth–on Influence, Summer Nights, and Allen Ginsberg Alec Soth pays artistic homage to Robert Adams’s Summer Nights in a video created for Aperture Remix, an exhibition at Aperture Gallery. via Aperture Foundation NY: http://www.aperture.org/2012/11/alec-soth-summer-nights-at-the-dollar-tree/ A few years ago I became really frustrated with photography. In order to continue working, I felt like I needed…

  • Houston : Anne Tucker by Robert Stevens

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    Link: Houston : Anne Tucker by Robert Stevens | Le Journal de la Photographie What connects war photography to all my other projects is an attraction to what I don’t know, to what is unknown in the field of photography. 



  • Ben Lowy Interview – Part 2

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    Ben Lowy Interview – Part 2 – A Photo Editor by Jonathan Blaustein I caught up with Ben Lowy in August. He’s a busy man, juggling family and personal projects with a super-charged career. In the last year alone, he was in Libya, on Jon Stewart, won the photojournalist of the year award from the ICP,…

  • The Young Gun Meets the Living Legend

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    The Young Gun Meets the Living Legend We had 18-year-old up-and-coming photographer Olivia Bee interview 74-year-old photo master Joel Meyerowitz about his new two-volume retrospective. We think it may be the start of a beautiful friendship. via Vice: http://www.vice.com/read/the-young-gun-meets-the-living-legend-89312 It seems to me that there’s a moment when you press the shutter release on the…

  • Ben Lowy Interview – Part 1

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    Ben Lowy Interview – Part 1 – A Photo Editor by Jonathan Blaustein I caught up with Ben Lowy in August. He’s a busy man, juggling family and personal projects with a super-charged career. In the last year alone, he was in Libya, on Jon Stewart, won the photojournalist of the year award from the…

  • A Conversation with Pete Muller

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    Link: A Conversation with Pete Muller » Prime Collective As we welcome Pete Muller, the first new photographer to join Prime since our launch, we wanted to help everyone get to know him a bit better. We interviewed Pete about his work, the stories he’s tackled, and his approach to photography.

  • A conversation with Neville Elder-Photographer and Film-maker

    A conversation with Neville Elder-Photographer and Film-maker

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    A conversation with Neville Elder-Photographer and Film-maker Neville Elder is a photojournalist and portrait photographer from Somerset. He’s based in New York and counts The Times, Independent, The Guardian and of course Bizarre magazine along his regular c… via Broadbentius’ Blog: https://broadbentius.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/a-conversation-with-neville-elder-photographer-and-film-maker/ That 15 minutes with Ray Wells was probably the best teaching I’d ever…

  • Stumbling Upon a Little Diner in Elyria

    Stumbling Upon a Little Diner in Elyria

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    Stumbling Upon a Little Diner in Elyria The New York Times staff photographer Nicole Bengiveno, who produced video and photography for The Times’s multimedia presentation of “This Land, Elyria, Ohio,” discusses the project and her approach. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/21/stumbling-upon-a-little-diner-in-elyria/ Last week, The Times published a special presentation of Dan Barry’s “This Land” column, centered…