Category: Interviews

Stumbling Upon a Little Diner in Elyria

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 around the town of Elyria, Ohio. The five-part multimedia series, with stories, photos, audio and video, ended Thursday. The Times staff photographer Nicole Bengiveno, who works with Mr. Barry on “This Land” columns, shot stills and video for this project, which was six months in the making

October 23, 2012
Jake Chessum Interview

Jake Chessum Interview – A Photo Editor

Jake Chessum is a photographer you will find near the top of all photo editor lists and that’s why I’m so excited he will be joining me Fri, Oct 26, 2012 from 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM for a panel discussion on “Making a Career in Editorial Photography” at the P

via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2012/10/22/jake-chessum-interview/

I introduced myself: “Hey Gary, I’m Jake. I’m here to take your picture.” He said, “What do you mean? They didn’t tell me there was a photographer. I was like, “Oh, OK.” I said, “OK, I totally understand. Can I just tell you something? I just left college three months ago. This is one of my first jobs, and I know that they told me they want to put you on the cover, but they don’t have a cover shoot. Will you do a cover shoot with me?” He said, “Yeah, call me next week. Come to my flat and we’ll do it. I’ll give you half an hour.”

October 22, 2012
Dennis Darling

Link: I Love Texas Photo » Dennis Darling

I handle the negatives terribly. I’m, like, eating a ham sandwich while I’m doing it. I shouldn’t say this, but I don’t even measure my chemistry. I think about film the same way I think about cooking. If it says a cup, it’s sort of a cup, could be a little more or less, and a pinch of sugar. Not that I’m a great cook, but I’m a decent cook and I bake well.

October 19, 2012
Craig Semetko: America: E Pluribus Unum

Link: Craig Semetko: America: E Pluribus Unum « The Leica Camera

A classic street shooter in the great tradition, Craig Semetko uses Leica cameras to capture images that transcend the moment

October 17, 2012
David Stewart Discusses Film, Teens, and the Current Climate in Ad Photography

Link: David Stewart Discusses Film, Teens, and the Current Climate in Ad Photography | Feature Shoot

David Stewart is a London-based advertising and fine art photographer and director. We asked him a few questions about his new fine art series Teenage Pre-occupation, photographing punk bands, and creating projects that are both humorous and timeless.

October 15, 2012
Instagram Photographer Steph Goralnick Gives Advice and Discusses the Perks of Popularity

Link: Instagram Photographer Steph Goralnick Gives Advice and Discusses the Perks of Popularity | Feature Shoot

Building an audience takes time, and a lot of work. Though photographers have been embracing social media for a long time now, so I’m sure that comes as obvious to most people. I think one thing we have to avoid is posting the same image in a blitz out to five different networks

October 12, 2012
Ending The Stigma Of Incarceration: A Conversation With Ed Kashi

Ending The Stigma Of Incarceration (Part Three): A Conversation With Ed Kashi

Ronald Day en route to work, NYC. © Ed Kashi / VII Photo – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – &#82…

via Prison Photography: http://prisonphotography.org/2012/10/07/ending-the-stigma-of-incarceration-part-three-a-conversation-with-ed-kashi/

The way I look at this advocacy journalism, which is what I call it, is we gain access to subject we would otherwise have trouble getting access to. That’s number one. Number two, we’re doing it in cooperation with an organization that we know will disseminate the product to the policy makers and the people and organizations who can make a real difference and drive change – be it on a legislation for funding level

October 9, 2012
The Grisly Dead People Pictures of Fernando Brito

The Grisly Dead People Pictures of Fernando Brito

These days, there’s no shortage of grisly images coming out of Mexico thanks to the brutal and ever-present War on Drugs. But Brito’s work stands out because he seems to treat the cadavers as one with the landscape. There is a certain sense of…

via Vice: http://www.vice.com/read/fernando-brito-1

I realized that photographs in the papers do not withstand the test of time. For that to happen, a photo has to be entered in a contest and turn some heads. But really, my interest has never been to win as much as it has been to show what is happening. I focused on putting my photographs in galleries, recontextualizing them as art, and seeing what happened from there.

October 7, 2012
Chris Buck Talks About His New Book: Presence

Chris Buck Talks About His New Book: Presence – A Photo Editor

This is the first in a series of interviews I’m conducting to promote my seminar at the 2012 Photo Plus Expo titled “Making a Career in Editorial Photography”. I’ve got 3 editorial photographers at the top of their game who I’m going to interview on stage

via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2012/10/03/chris-buck-presence-interview/

Chris is somewhat of a regular around here, I really enjoy checking in with him, because he’s always honest with his answers. He’s got a new book out called Presence (get yours here), so I asked him all about creating it and finding a publisher. I know you will enjoy his insight into the process.

October 4, 2012
Conversation with Donna Ferrato

Donna Ferrato – Conversation

I tasted Donna Ferrato’s blood. Pretty damned salty, just like Donna of course. Donna had just cut herself opening a bottle of Chardonnay during the upcoming interview. Her wrist and t…

via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2012/10/conversation-with-donna-ferrato/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+burnmag+%28burn+magazine%29

So later on, at the bar among the flank of photographers I saw PF Bentley and asked him. “Don’t people get exasperated when you take so long to explain stuff?” He stared hard in my eyes and said, “Yeah.”

“Well, isn’t there a way to cure it?” He says, “Right after an orgasm, I don’t sttttutter for hours.”

October 3, 2012
Chip Simone

Chip Simone

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/2012/09/chip-simone.html

It may take decades for a picture to make sense to you. An image can move back and forth in time before it finds its place. You may have to grow wiser before you can fathom intellectually what your heart felt years earlier. It may take time to find the one image that will unlock the secrets of the others.

September 29, 2012
Sean Vegezzi Photographs Secret New York

Sean Vegezzi Photographs Secret New York

Sean Vegezzi is a young photographer from New York who enjoys hanging out in elevator shafts and getting cops to chase him through graveyards. His first photo-book, ‘I Don’t Warna Grow Up,’ is about not warnting to grow up.

via Vice: http://www.vice.com/read/photographing-new-yorks-secret-hideouts-sean-vegezzi

We would just wander around Tribeca and walk into any open door. We had the most fun in spaces that weren’t really designed for pedestrians to see. Elevator shafts, cellars, steam tunnels, messenger corridors, office building rooftops…

September 27, 2012
Howard Greenberg’s Personal Photo Collection on View

An Autobiography Told With Others’ Photos

For the first time, the famed gallerist Howard Greenberg will show photographs from his personal collection, in two exhibits in Europe.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/24/an-autobiography-told-with-others-photos/

Howard Greenberg is known for the erudite exhibits at his gallery, Howard Greenberg Gallery, and his role in shaping both the market for photography and the photographic canon. For the first time, photographs from his personal collection are being exhibited, at the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland, through June 2013, and the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation in Paris, opening Jan. 15. He spoke with James Estrin last week

September 24, 2012
Nick Ut: The Amazing Saga And The Image That Helped End The Vietnam War

Link: Nick Ut: The Amazing Saga And The Image That Helped End The Vietnam War « The Leica Camera

Q: So what did your boss Horst say when he first saw the photo of Kim?

A: When he first saw the picture he had just come back from London. He asked who took the picture. They said it was mine. He asked me what happened in that picture. I told him napalm dropped. He went and sat at the light table by himself to look at my negative. He went to the darkroom and made 12 more prints to send to New York. He said that picture would cause trouble, and that he’d never seen a picture like this taken in Vietnam. But when he sent the picture to New York they didn’t want to use it because it was too naked. He said no I want that picture sent right away. He was yelling.

September 18, 2012
Meet Stipple – An Attribution Tool For Images

Meet Stipple – An Attribution Tool For Images – A Photo Editor

I’ve followed Paul Melcher’s Thoughts of a Bohemian blog for many years, because he had an insiders perspective of the stock photography industry and was a harsh critic of the old guard not keeping up with the digital age (similar to my own blogging on ma

via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2012/09/10/meet-stipple/

Stipple solves the age old question everyone who has ever taken a picture has been asking : where are my photographs published and how many people are seeing them ? Today, when an image is published online, it is quickly replicated, blogged, re bloged, pinned, twitted, Tumblred, Facebooked

September 11, 2012
In Focus – Q&A with Photo Editor Jim Colton

In Focus – Q&A with Photo Editor Jim Colton – The Photo Brigade

In his new column “In Focus”, Alex Federowicz interviews successful photo editors and industry leaders. In this Q&A, Alex speaks with legendary photo editor Jim Colton and discusses his career and what makes a great image.

via The Photo Brigade: http://thephotobrigade.com/2012/09/in-focus-qa-with-photo-editor-jim-colton/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ThePhotoBrigade+%28The+Photo+Brigade%29

As far as images having the same impact in the past, I firmly believe they still do. When the right pictures meet the right audience, great things can happen. As a caveat though, with all the new media being used (more on that later) we see some frivolity as well. Eg: The school bus attendant that was being harassed by teenagers seen by over 8 million people on You Tube resulting in
people donating close to a quarter of a million dollars for her “vacation.” WTF?

September 8, 2012
Dave Jordano Photographs a Gritty but Hopeful Detroit

Link: Dave Jordano Photographs a Gritty but Hopeful Detroit | Feature Shoot

I’m of the philosophy that you don’t pick your projects, they pick you. If you’re concerned enough about something it will ultimately surface and you will have to act upon it.

September 6, 2012
Noor’s 5th Anniversary at Perpignan

A Collective Eye on Social Justice

Members of Noor, the photo collective that will observe its fifth anniversary at the Visa pour l’Image photojournalism festival in Perpignan, France, discuss their approach and practice.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/04/a-collective-eye-on-social-justice/

The photographer-owned photo agency, Noor, was started on Sept. 6, 2007, at the Visa Pour l’image photojournalism festival in Perpignan, France. This week the photographers will return, commemorating their fifth anniversary with the unveiling of a new Web site and an 11-volume book project. The Noor members Alixandra Fazzina, Kadir van Lohuizen and Jon Lowenstein spoke with James Estrin

September 4, 2012
Arthur Meyerson: Light, Color And The Moment

Link: Arthur Meyerson: Light, Color And The Moment « The Leica Camera

Acclaimed as one of America’s finest photographers, Arthur Meyerson is a native of Texas who has traveled the world creating award-winning advertising, corporate and editorial photographs as well as an impressive body of personal fine art street images

September 4, 2012
Jonathan Slack: Capturing China With The Leica M Monochrom

Link: Jonathan Slack: Capturing China With The Leica M Monochrom « The Leica Camera

I just love taking images; they are the punctuation marks in my existence. If I can make a simple thing seem fascinating, or catch an expression which amplifies a character or find a feature of the landscape mirrored in a cloud formation. These are the things which satisfy me most.

August 27, 2012