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.
Category: Interviews
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Ed Kashi’s Reflections on His Photos, in Diaries and Letters
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Bruce Haley’s Panoramic Landscapes
Bruce Haley’s Panoramic Landscapes
Colin Pantall’s blog about photography, writing, art and politics
Link: http://colinpantall.blogspot.com/2012/03/bruce-haleys-panoramic-landscapes.html
Bruce Haley’s book, Sunder, (published by Daylight) is a fascinating and quite poetic take on the demise of the Soviet Union and communism. I see it and am instantly drawn to the landscapes, the combination of complete environmental and industrial devastation mixed with romantic, rural landscapes and economic decay. I’ve been corresponding with Bruce Haley (see interviews here, and here) for a while and he has a fascinating take on photography that includes thoughts on landscape, politics, narrative and process.
He’s currently shooting panoramic landscapes on the history of mining in the US. These are shot on 10 inch negative in an extreme ratio – click on the pictures for more detail as the layers that are revealed are quite amazing.
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Kurt Tong Interview
Kurt Tong Interview – A Photo Editor
Jonathan Blaustein interviews photographer Kurt Tong. JB: You and I met, as I have with several people I’ve interviewed, at Review Santa Fe in 2009. I don’t think we’ve seen each other or spoken since. I’ve got to give a shout out to that class of ’09. Th
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2012/02/29/kurt-tong-interview/
Absolutely. I went Paris Photo recently, and it is the same 8 or 10 photographers who are dominating the whole scene. It’s almost like they’re eating the main meal, and there’s another 200 photographers eating the scraps around it. And I’m not even eating the scraps
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INTERVIEW: “A Conversation with Christopher Anderson” (2012)
A Conversation with Christopher Anderson (2012)
From ‘Son’ by Christopher Anderson
Why show it ?Interview with Christopher Anderson
By Baptiste Lignel, December 2, 2012, Paris
Baptiste Lignel- You seem to have a dilemma about your project “Son”…
Cristopher Anderson – I’m constantly confli
I’ve spent the last fifteen years with the title of “War photographer”, going to the other ends of the earth, to photographs stories of other people, looking for photographic intimacy from people that I didn’t know. In Afghanistan, which could not be further away from what I grew up in, which was milk and toast Texas. My father was an evangelical preacher, and I grew up in a very conservative and religious environment. My family is not right wing, born again, or that kind of thing, but the environment, the town, the culture that I grew up in were conservative, and I became a photographer, really, to escape that.
Then all of sudden you have a child, which is a crazy experience, because it is at the same time the most intimate and unique experience a person can have, and it is also the most common and universal experience a person can have. Then I was having this internal dialogue: “I’ve been going off to Afghanistan, and now I’ve come the full circle, where I’m not running away from home anymore, I want to be at my home. I want to understand myself through my family”.
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Jodi Bieber Interview
Jodi Bieber Interview – A Photo Editor
By Kathalijne van Zutphen Jodi Bieber (1966) is a South African photographer mostly known for her highly publicized portrait of Bibi Aisha; the young Afghan woman who had her nose and ears cut off by the Taliban after seeking rescue from her violent husba
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2012/02/27/jodi-bieber-interview/
Editing is absolutely crucial. Everyone is a photographer these days and where you can make a difference is with interpretation. As a good editor you have to be true to yourself but not be too emotionally attached. If you let someone else edit your work, you have to make sure you put your point of view across well and work with someone you trust.
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Interview with Michael “Nick” Nichols
Michael “Nick” Nichols – Conversation
[slidepress gallery=’michaelnicknichols_interview’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls play this essay David Alan Harvey: Now the thing is that you were…
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I can’t justify what I do if I’m not reaching the planet. I gotta have a huge audience because my work is about saving the planet, you know. Its not about me, its about tigers and elephants and stuff like that. So if I didn’t have this microphone, I’d just be pissing into the wind. This is the only place on earth that I can do what I do.
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Mark Murrmann: Just a Performance
There’s an element of trying to capture a realness, a kind of spontaneity to both that’s appealing. But of course in punk, like just about anything else, there’s definitely an element of performance, controlled chaos and building off of what’s come before. To that end, covering music, especially larger bands, reminds me of when I was covering Congress. It’s funny, when I’ve shown my portfolio to editors, I’ve been knocked on more than one occasion for including music photography. I was told that work is “just capturing a performance.” Hell, outside of spot news or street photography, just about everything a photojournalist shoots is “just a performance.” Sports? No doubt. Politics? Hell yes. Especially today, in the reality show soaked world we’re living in, you pull out a camera and people perform
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Marc Shoul: Looking for Complex Images That Transport
Marc Shoul is a South African photographer, born in 1975 in Port Elizabeth. Interested in exploring social issues, four years ago he began photographing the city of Brakpan, which is a 45-minute drive from Johannesburg. Street scenes and more intimate portraits compose a personal portrayal of a place that is “anchored in time, the same, but its own” — as the photographer characterized it in the following interview — stumbling between a heavy past and an uncertain present.
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INTERVIEW: “Robert Farber with Eddie Adams”
Eddie Adams: I’m not one to give up negative advice like a lot of picture editors do. I think that there’s a lot of room, for anyone who’s really serious about this and who first of all to be successful in anything–and in photography it’s gonna hurt. You’re gonna cry, you’re gonna have your heart ripped out, but just don’t give up. If you have the will and the time and are really serious about this, the most important thing is you have to want it bad enough. If you want it bad enough, you’ll get good, and get to where you want to go.
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Mitch Epstein, Tree Stalker
Mitch Epstein, Tree Stalker
The photographer goes into detail about his process for selecting and shooting the arboreal landmarks featured in our Voyages Issue.
via The 6th Floor Blog: http://6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/11/mitch-epstein-tree-stalker/?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all
Before bringing the 8-by-10 camera, I photographed the tree several times with a little digital camera. I spent time with the tree. It was January, and I first had to educate myself as to when the light would be at a favorable vantage point in the sky.
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World Press Photo: “It was about the people,” says jury chair Aidan Sullivan
Link: British Journal of Photography
“2011 was a momentous year,” says Aidan Sullivan, the chair of this year’s World Press Photo jury. “In the end, we tried to distill it down to what was the most important thing – the people.” He speaks to BJP.
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Q. & A. with Joel van Houdt, Afghanistan-Based Photographer
Q. & A. with Joel van Houdt, Afghanistan-Based Photographer
Everyone knows NATO forces are fighting the Taliban but it was rare to see it in such a straightforward way as in Helmand Province.
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The portraits were part of the assignment that photo editor Joanna Milter sent me on the road with. I liked the idea: these Marines had been living and fighting on the often forgotten front line of this war, and I thought that photographing their faces, as opposed to their bodies in action, would remind us that actual people, in this case young Americans, are putting their lives at risk.
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Still Images In Great Advertising – Jeremy & Claire Weiss
Still Images In Great Advertising – Jeremy & Claire Weiss – A Photo Editor
Still Images In Great Advertising, is a column where Suzanne Sease discovers great advertising images and then speaks with the photographers about it. I reached out to Day 19 (Jeremy & Claire Weiss) after seeing this great Converse campaign, because they
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2012/02/02/still-images-in-great-advertising-jeremy-claire-weiss/
I reached out to Day 19 (Jeremy & Claire Weiss) after seeing this great Converse campaign, because they seem to work well as a husband and wife team. Here is our conversation about how they make it work… together.
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Still Images In Great Advertising – Bryce Boyer
Still Images In Great Advertising – Bryce Boyer – A Photo Editor
Still Images In Great Advertising, is a column where Suzanne Sease discovers great advertising images and then speaks with the photographers about it. In today’s feature, I reached out to Bryce Boyer, because the ads he shot show great lighting, clever c
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2012/01/26/still-images-in-great-advertising-bryce-boyer/
In today’s feature, I reached out to Bryce Boyer, because the ads he shot show great lighting, clever concepts and the importance of showing your talent to an agency and creative person using a pro-bono campaign to establish a working relationship
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Gary Wang: Rangefinder Singapore
Gary Wang is a street photographer based in Singapore and is well regarded for his work shot on his Leica camera and super-wide 21mm lens. He is the founding member & head of Rangefinder Singapore, a community dedicated to further knowledge of photography and rangefinder cameras. He has also been recently nominated to the 2011 Platform Ten project. Eric Kim had the chance to sit down with Gary recently and ask him a few questions.
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Jake Stangel – A New Chapter
Jake Stangel – A New Chapter – A Photo Editor
I’ve been following Jake Stangel’s career for several years and noticed recently that he signed with Julian Richards and this month shot a feature in Esquire Magazine. He’s been very active online helping fellow emerging photographers, previously with his
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2012/01/25/jake-stangel-a-new-chapter/
I’ve been following Jake Stangel’s career for several years and noticed recently that he signed with Julian Richards and this month shot a feature in Esquire Magazine. He’s been very active online helping fellow emerging photographers, previously with his forum Too Much Chocolate and now a series of posts on his blog “the four most important things you can do to become a professional photographer“. I thought we should check in with Jake and see what’s going on.
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Success Stories: Cole Thompson
Success Stories: Cole Thompson
Cole Thompson’s work has been on my radar for a number of years. I have always appreciated his well-crafted images and all that he brings to the table in terms of being a professional. His newsletters are as elegant as his work, and everything is presente
via LENSCRATCH: http://www.lenscratch.com/2012/01/success-stories-cole-thompson.html
for the last several years I have practiced what I call “Photographic Celibacy.” My photo magazines are donated, my books gather dust on the shelf and I do not seek out new work on the internet. Not studying other photographers work has been very helpful and I give this technique much of the credit in helping me unearth my vision and to become more creative.
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Conversation: Chris Johns, Editor, National Geographic Magazine
Chris Johns – Editor, National Geographic Magazine
A CONVERSATION WITH CHRIS JOHNS FIRST IN A SERIES ON “DECISION MAKERS” Chris Johns was named editor in chief of National Geographi…
via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/dialogue/2012/01/interview-chris-johns-editor-national-geographic-magazine/
If you get afraid of making mistakes, you are toast. You’re done. You’ve got to have courage. You’ve got to believe in yourself and the people who you surround yourself with, that you can go ahead, and your going to weigh the options, your going to be decisive, but a lot of its going to be visceral. This is really important because when it comes too intellectual, it becomes too cool. But when it becomes more visceral, and I’m not talking about flying off the handle, but there’s a gut thing.
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Christopher Anderson- Return of the Staff Photographer
Christopher Anderson- Return of the Staff Photographer – A Photo Editor
by Grayson Schaffer On Tuesday, New York Magazine announced that it had signed longtime contributor and well-known photojournalist Christopher Anderson as the weekly magazine’s first-ever “photographer-in-residence.” In a statement released to the British
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2012/01/17/christopher-anderson-return-of-the-staff-photographer/
On Tuesday, New York Magazine announced that it had signed longtime contributor and well-known photojournalist Christopher Anderson as the weekly magazine’s first-ever “photographer-in-residence.” In a statement released to the British Journal of Photography, New York said the 41-year-old Brooklyn-based shooter would tackle a “broad array of subjects in a full range of styles, from photojournalism to portraiture to conceptual work.” Anderson will now work exclusively for New York, at least where print magazines are concerned. The odd thing, here, is that the era of the staff photographer was supposed to have ended when National Geographic gradually moved away from the practice. We called Anderson to try and make sense of the sudden turn of events.
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Jim Wilson’s Republican Presidential Campaign Photos
Covering politics over the decades, he has seen tremendous changes – both in the style of the campaigns and the technology he has used to photograph them. In recent weeks, he’s been covering the Republican presidential campaign in Iowa and New Hampshire, focusing almost entirely on Mitt Romney
