Category: Interviews

Michael Levin on Continuum

Michael Levin on Continuum

Tempest, 2008 — Michael Levin Sitting in the gallery surrounded by Michael Levin’s photographs, I feel a sense of calm. Though the…

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Sitting in the gallery surrounded by Michael Levin’s photographs, I feel a sense of calm. Though the images are still frames I perceive a sense of movement. There is something about Levin’s images that inspire a sense of “being” in the moment – and it is a peaceful and pleasant moment

January 5, 2012
The State of the Industry: Gregg Lhotsky, B&A

The State of the Industry: Gregg Lhotsky, B&A – A Photo Editor

The State of the Industry, is a new column where Suzanne Sease speaks with advertising industry professionals and influencers to discuss what’s happening and where we’re headed. Gregg Lhotsky is a well-respected photography representative with the acclaim

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The State of the Industry, is a new column where Suzanne Sease speaks with advertising industry professionals and influencers to discuss what’s happening and where we’re headed.

Gregg Lhotsky is a well-respected photography representative with the acclaimed Bernstein & Andruilli. Gregg and I have had the pleasure of working together when I was at The Martin Agency and have been friends ever since. I admire Gregg’s eye for talent, his professionalism and the fact that we both grew up in Baltimore, Maryland (same age but never knew each other).

December 20, 2011
INTERVIEW: Robert Frank – “If An Artist Doesn’t Take Risks, Then It’s Not Worth It.” (2007)

An Interview with Robert Frank – “If An Artist Doesn’t Take Risks, Then It’s Not Worth It.” (2007)

An Exclusive Interview with Robert Frank, Robert Frank’s Studio, New York, July 22, 2007

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You are free and you risk something by taking a photograph. It’s not taking a snapshot of your sister. You risk because this is maybe not the way people think one should photograph. So you go out on a more different road. There is a risk involved in that. And I think if an artist doesn’t take risks, then it’s not worth it.

December 15, 2011
A Conversation: Jerry Uelsmann and James Estrin

Lens

Before Photoshop allowed image makers to bend reality to their will with a single keystroke there was Jerry Uelsmann. He created surreal images the hard way — not with digital shortcuts, but working in a darkroom with seven enlargers and multiple negatives.

December 12, 2011
Video Interview with Sports Illustrated’s DOP

Video Interview with Sports Illustrated’s DOP – PhotoShelter Blog

Steve Fine, the legendary Director of Photography at Sports Illustrated, doesn’t waste time sugar-coating things – he has an opinion and he knows what he wants. Having been at SI for over fifteen years, Steve has amassed a lot of entertaining stories that

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Steve Fine, the legendary Director of Photography at Sports Illustrated, doesn’t waste time sugar-coating things – he has an opinion and he knows what he wants. Having been at SI for over fifteen years, Steve has amassed a lot of entertaining stories that he shares with us in this interview, as well as a ton of incredible sports photography and insights into what photo buyers want.

December 8, 2011
Jason Lee Parry Defends Himself Against $28,000,000 Lawsuit

Jason Lee Parry Defends Himself Against $28,000,000 Lawsuit – A Photo Editor

You may remember photographer Jason Lee Parry from the $28,000,000 lawsuit brought against him in August by parents of a young model he photographed (APE story here). The parents flipped out when a sexually suggestive image that Parry took of their 16 yea

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You may remember photographer Jason Lee Parry from the $28,000,000 lawsuit brought against him in August by parents of a young model he photographed (APE story here). The parents flipped out when a sexually suggestive image that Parry took of their 16 year old daughter on a motorcycle (she was 15 at the time) appeared on clothing in Urban Outfitters

December 6, 2011
More Photos from Moises Saman in Egypt

Even in Egypt, a Long Way to Go

Moises Saman had been photographing the run-up to the Egyptian elections when the recent riots broke out. He spoke to Lens about the challenges of digging deeper into the story.

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Moises Saman has been covering the Arab Spring for The New York Times since its beginning in Tunisia. In July, he moved to Egypt — where, for the last four weeks, he has been photographing the run-up to the Egyptian elections. Mr. Saman, a nominee for membership in the Magnum Photos cooperative, spoke with James Estrin and David Furst

December 5, 2011
Edward Burtynsky Interview

Edward Burtynsky Interview – A Photo Editor

Jonathan Blaustein: I was in New York this past week, and I was able to see both of your exhibitions that are currently on display at Bryce Wolkowitz and Howard Greenberg. It’s such a great lead in to our conversation, and I definitely want to ask some qu

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Edward Burtynsky: I have no idea what else I would do. Creating ideas and objects, and being involved in art making, whether it’s in the form of photography, or something else is part of my being. The creative urge feels as if it’s in my DNA. If I’m not creating something, then I feel as if I’m having a slow death

November 30, 2011
Kaushal Parikh: Breaking Free from Banking

The Leica Camera

Kaushal Parikh describes himself as an ex-banker turned street photographer. He has shot street photography seriously for the last three years, drawing inspiration from Magnum photographers, as well as members from the In-Public collective. After shooting in what he describes as a bubble, he is in the process of building up an online/offline street photography community in Mumbai and also founded the India Street Photographers collective. During a recent trip to India, Eric Kim had a chance to speak with Kaushal about his work and technique.

November 30, 2011
Q & A with Gordon Stettinius

Q & A with Gordon Stettinius

Gordon Stettinius is the founder of Candela Books in Richmond, Virginia. I caught up with him recently to chat about Candela’s latest relea…

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Gordon Stettinius is the founder of Candela Books in Richmond, Virginia. I caught up with him recently to chat about Candela’s latest release, Salt & Truth by Shelby Lee Adams

November 24, 2011
Patagonia Catalog Winter 2011

The Daily Edit Interview – Patagonia Catalog Winter 2011 – A Photo Editor

Heidi Volpe interviews Patagonia photo editor Jenning Steger. Heidi: What a bold move to put a spread photo by Oskar Enander in the catalog, was that a hard sell since the rider isn’t one of your ambassadors? Jenning: No because the photo is so stellar it

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We rarely set up shoots, of course this varies per project and purpose of shoot and image needs. If we do offer an up-front photo contract we get a general who, what, where, where, why from the photographer, and then supply a basic shot list, art direction and product. From there we let the photographer run with it and embrace their creative eye.

November 22, 2011
A chat with Bryan Formhals

A chat with Bryan

From an online chat over beers last week with Bryan Formhals : B: Hi Bryan, Have you got a beer handy? Bryan Formhals: Ha. Yeah, just c…

Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2011/11/chat-with-bryan.html

What’s the longest you’ve ever looked at a photo online?

A single photo? Maybe a minute. I go through slideshows pretty quick as well too, but I might play them back a few times. When I’m editing a body of work, I’ll take more time to look at the photos. But it’s more of an aggregate type situation, rather than just looking at one single photograph. Sometimes I’ll find one that is weird and try to figure out how the composition works, or what’s actually happening in the photo.

It’s also hard to compare a portfolio from a project to a completed book. Viewing a portfolio online I mean…

November 22, 2011
Benjamin Lowy: War Photographer

Benjamin Lowy: War Photographer

The photographer Benjamin Lowy was recently awarded the Duke Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography for his book “Iraq …

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The photographer Benjamin Lowy was recently awarded the Duke Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography for his book “Iraq | Perspectives.” The book documents Lowy’s time covering the war in Iraq and reveals the U.S. soldiers’ experiences as seen through their night-vision scopes and their armored Humvee windows. Recently Lowy sat down with me to talk about both his book and his life as a conflict photographer. Here’s a selection of his photographs and what he had to say.

November 10, 2011
Kevin WY Lee: The Invisible Photographer

The Leica Camera

Kevin WY Lee is a street photographer and the founder of The Invisible Photographer Asia (IPA), a street photography and visual documentary that features Asian photographers. In almost a year, he was able to grow the IPA community to over 70,000+ Facebook fans while pushing the art of street photography and visual documentation in Asia. Eric Kim had the opportunity to talk with Kevin about what inspired him to start The Invisible Photographer Asia and insights into his own photography.

November 3, 2011
INTERVIEW: “Interview with Enrique Metinides” (2006)

AMERICAN SUBURB X

Although he hasn’t published a photograph in almost fifteen years, Metinides can safely be called the most prolific news photographer of his generation. Between 1946, when he was barely twelve years old, and 1993, when he was muscled out of his “nota roja” newspaper job, Metinides was a tenacious documenter of death and brutality in the chambers of Mexico City’s hospitals, police stations, and morgues. He shot murders, suicides, auto and aviation accidents, fires, drowning, and crime scenes—sometimes in action. He breathed his work, sleeping at night with a police scanner always near his ear. He rode along to the scene of an accident or homicide on ambulances and fire trucks.

November 3, 2011
Talking Photography with Time Out New York

Talking Photography with Time Out New York – PhotoShelter Blog

Time Out New York, the self-described “go-to playbook” for art, music, nightlife, restaurants, shopping and even dating, has a magazine circulation of 150,000 and averages 1.1 million website visitors per month. For a photographer, that’s a whole lot of p

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Time Out New York, the self-described “go-to playbook” for art, music, nightlife, restaurants, shopping and even dating, has a magazine circulation of 150,000 and averages 1.1 million website visitors per month. For a photographer, that’s a whole lot of people checking out your work. So we talked with Jolie Ruben, Photo Editor at TONY to learn more about what it takes to get noticed by a magazine that’s published everything from concert photography to apartment interiors.

October 25, 2011
A Conversation with Matt Eich

Conscientious Extended:

Still in his mid-twenties, Matt Eich has an impressive list of achievements under his belt already. I had a general sense of curiosity about his work, and I figured the best way to learn more about it – and the person behind the camera – was to ask some questions

October 25, 2011
The South as seen through the lens of the 20×24 Polaroid camera

Feature Shoot:

Artist Jennifer Trausch is the Director of Photography at the 20 X 24 Studio in Manhattan. The 20 X 24 Studio is built around a 239-pound analog camera that shoots 20 X 24 images on Polaroid film. There were six of these cameras built between the years of 1976 and 1978 and three of them are currently in use in different parts of the world.

October 21, 2011
A Conversation with CPC 2011 Winner Yaakov Israel

Conscientious Extended:

Yaakov Israel’s The Quest for the Man on the White Donkey, complex, multi-faceted project, featuring portraits and landscapes, was my personal pick as a winner of this year’s Conscientious Portfolio Competition. For me, the project captures seemingly disjointed moments in time, offering many hints and as many red herrings. The viewer is invited to come back and re-look at these photographs, to find a slightly different world each time. New details reveal themselves, while old details change their meaning ever so slightly. Instead of pointing at something and saying “This is the way it is” the photographs ask their viewers to discover what is to be found and to ultimately come to their own conclusions.

October 18, 2011
INTERVIEW: “An Interview with Walker Evans” Pt. 1 (1971)

An Interview with Walker Evans Pt. 1 (1971)

“I was damn well going to be an artist and I wasn’t going to be a businessman.”

Interview Excerpt from, Leslie Katz with Walker Evans, 1971.

Leslie Katz: You took photographs of whatever interested you?

Walker Evans: Oh yes. I was a passionate

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October 17, 2011