Category: Interviews

  • Dirty Season: a group project by new Serbian photojournalism collective Kamerades

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    Link: dvafoto

  • This is Real Art release first book and it’s a gorgeous study of Tokyo commuters by Adam Hinton

    This is Real Art release first book and it’s a gorgeous study of Tokyo commuters by Adam Hinton

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    Shibuya–Adam Hinton This is “Shibuya–Adam Hinton” by This is Real Art on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. via Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/40997390 This is Real Art have carved out a reputation for quality creativity across advertising, design and branding, but late last week they moved into new territory with…

  • How To Take Your Landscape and Nature Photography to The Next Level

    How To Take Your Landscape and Nature Photography to The Next Level

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    How To Take Your Landscape and Nature Photography to The Next Level – PhotoShelter Blog As photographers, we sometimes get trapped in the technicalities of photography, thinking only about where to position the strobe or what ISO to set our cameras on. We obsess over gear and critique each other’s setup. We might even forget…

  • How Does A Photographer Land An Agent?

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    How Does A Photographer Land An Agent? – A Photo Editor APE contributor Meaghen Brown interviews Howard Bernstein about the most often asked question we get. Considered among New York’s most respected photography agents, Howard Bernstein, has been keeping an eye on talented photographers for over 25 years now, via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2012/05/01/how-does-a-photographer-land-an-agent/ Considered…

  • Angelo Merendino Documents His Wife’s Tragic Battle with Cancer

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    Link: Feature Shoot “There is no normal in cancer-land,” writes New York-based Angelo Merendino on the website for his photo documentary, “The Battle We Didn’t Choose.” Just five months into married life with “the girl of [his] dreams,” she was diagnosed with cancer. This began a challenging four-year journey of remission and relapse, an emotional…

  • INTERVIEW: “Robert Hirsch with Bill Owens – Photographing the Suburban Soul” (2005)

    INTERVIEW: “Robert Hirsch with Bill Owens – Photographing the Suburban Soul” (2005)

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    Interview with Bill Owens on Photographing the Suburban Soul (2005)  “I enjoy cooking, dogs, cats, kids, soccer, and living here.” “No one would have predicted I would succeed at anything.” Interview by Robert Hirsch of Light Research Bill Owens’s Suburbia (1972) is a quintessential photographic study of suburb via AMERICAN SUBURB X: http://www.americansuburbx.com/2012/04/theory-interview-bill-owens.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Americansuburb+%28ASX+%7C+AMERICAN+SUBURB+X+%7C+Photography+%26+Culture%29 RH: What…

  • I’ll Die For You – an interview with Laura El-Tantawy

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    Link: dvafoto I’m not sure what first got me to look at Laura El-Tantawy’s I’ll Die For You, but I’m glad I did. It’s an ambitious attempt to photograph and tell the story of farmer suicides in India. The situation is staggering

  • Video Interview with Forbes’ Senior Photo Editor: Killer Portraiture is King

    Video Interview with Forbes’ Senior Photo Editor: Killer Portraiture is King

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    Video Interview with Forbes’ Senior Photo Editor: Killer Portraiture is King – PhotoShelter Blog Forbes magazine is famous for its in-depth feature stories on the world’s CEOs, entrepreneurs, business owners, and generally just rich people. So when it comes to photography, emotive, sharp, and engaging portraits are essential to completing the story. via PhotoShelter Blog: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2012/04/video-interview-with-forbes-senior-photo-editor-killer-portraiture-is-king/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29 In this…

  • Photographer’s Showcase: Michelle Frankfurter’s Destino

    Photographer’s Showcase: Michelle Frankfurter’s Destino

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    Photographer’s Showcase: Destino photo-eye Gallery Photographer’s Showcase: Destino We are happy to present a new edit of Michelle Frankfurter’s Destino portfol… Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2012/04/photographers-showcase-destino.html On my most recent trip trip, I brought along an 8×8 copy of my first Blurb edit. I kept it wrapped in a plastic Ziploc bag inside my camera bag. People were…

  • Drew Friedman interview in Ink magazine (Spring 2012)

    Drew Friedman interview in Ink magazine (Spring 2012)

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    Drew Friedman interview in Ink magazine (Spring 2012) One of our favorite illustrators, Drew Friedman, is reviewed in this exceptionally fine magazine about comics called Ink, which is produced by students at New York’s School of Visual Arts Ink… via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/16/drew-friedman-interview-in-ink.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29 One of our favorite illustrators, Drew Friedman, is reviewed in this exceptionally…

  • Emerging Talent – Meg Roussos

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    Link: The Visual Student Take pictures. You aren’t going to create any cool pictures by just thinking about ideas. Go outside, talk to people and be a part of the community you live in. The best pictures you will produce are ones where you are just wandering around, explore something new, or assigning yourself to…

  • Decision Makers : A Conversation with W.M.Hunt

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    Decision Makers – A Conversation with W.M.Hunt W.M. Hunt – Bill Hunt – is a self described champion of photography: collector, curator and consultant, who lives and works in New York City. His book “The Unseen Eye: Photographs… via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2012/04/decision-makers-a-conversation-with-w-m-hunt/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+burnmag+%28burn+magazine%29 in college I toed the line for a long time. I was in accounting class one day…

  • Interview with Michael “Nick” Nichols

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    Link: burn magazine Easily by the time I get to an assignment I’m completely exhausted because of the money I had to raise, all the gear I had to put together, all the…this last one’s 50 boxes going to Tanzania, two years of fundraising, you know, literally almost 10 years of talking about lions, and…

  • A Conversation with Christian Patterson

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    Link: Conscientious Extended Christian Patterson’s Redheaded Peckerwood (also see the publisher’s website and my review) made it onto so many “best of 2011” lists that it was by far the most popular book last year. A body of amazing depth and sophistication, it is a shining example of what the contemporary photobook can do. There…

  • Joel Meyerowitz: Icon with a Leica

    Joel Meyerowitz: Icon with a Leica

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    Leica Portrait: Joel Meyerowitz An award-winning street photographer who has been creating memorable images in the great photojournalistic tradition since 1962, Joel Meyerowitz pioneered the use… via Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/38937942 Tony and I looked at each other and said, “That must be Henri Cartier-Bresson. Tony pushes me to go and see this guy and I walk…

  • Just Shoot, Shoot, Shoot: An Interview with David Burnett, Part II

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    Just Shoot, Shoot, Shoot: An Interview with David Burnett, Part II Interview by John Camp (Part I is here) John Camp: David, on your days off, do you walk around with a camera under your arm? David Burnett: About four years ago I needed a carry around camera, and ended up… via The Online Photographer:…

  • Prison Photography: An Interview with Pete Brook

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    Link: Feature Shoot Pete Brook, based in Portland, OR, is a freelance writer who focuses on the politics and social justice in photography. He writes about imagery produced within and about prisons on his own website Prison Photography. In 2011, Prison Photography was awarded a LIFE.com Photoblog Award and the British Journal of Photography recommended…

  • Just Make the Damn Picture: An Interview with David Burnett, Part I

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    Just Make the Damn Picture: An Interview with David Burnett, Part I Interview by John Camp Introduction: I’m a writer—a novelist —and a few weeks ago my publishing company sent a well-known professional photographer out to Santa Fe to take my picture for the backs of upcoming novels…which shows a bit of… via The Online…

  • Helmut Newton, the 1975 interview

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    Link: La Lettre de la Photographie In 1975, while working as a young journalist at PHOTO magazine, I had the privilege of interviewing Helmut. He was recovering from a heart attack in New York that had turned his life upside down. The conversation lasted hours. June was there, and we can never overestimate the importance…

  • Ed Kashi’s Reflections on His Photos, in Diaries and Letters

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    Link: Lens Ed Kashi’s new book “Witness Number 8: Photojournalisms” (Nazraeli Press 2012) is a collection of images, diary entries and letters to his wife, Julie Winokur. Mr. Kashi spoke about the book with James Estrin this month at the National Press Photographers Association’s Northern Short Course in Fairfax, Va. Their conversation has been edited.