Category: Interviews

  • Seconds2Real: The Formation of a Collective

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    The Leica Camera: Guido Steenkamp is a member of the street photography collective Seconds2Real. Beginning initially as a Flickr group aimed at promoting street photography in both Germany and Austria, it has since grown from an online organization to a real-life collective with the first exhibition to be opened on October 14th in Berlin. Guido…

  • Exclusive interview with Henry Rollins about his new photo book, ‘Occupants’

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    Feature Shoot Henry Rollins, frontman for both Black Flag and Rollins Band, has been traveling the world for more than a quarter century. In recent years, he has decided to document his travels, which have taken him to countries such as Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Iran, and North Korea to name a few. His first photo book,…

  • Mel Rosenthal Retires After 40 Years of Teaching

    Mel Rosenthal Retires After 40 Years of Teaching

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    A Mentor’s Passion for Pictures and Social Justice Mel Rosenthal, an impassioned photographer and a mentor to many, is retiring from his teaching position at Empire State College. Michael Kamber, a former student, talked to him about his career. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/11/a-mentors-passion-for-pictures-and-social-justice/ I said: “I’m not an artist; I’m a messenger.” I go to…

  • David Kasnic’s “Give Me Time”

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    dvafoto: David Kasnic shared his work with me a few months ago, and we had a beer at a nice seedy Ukrainian bar in New York when I was last in town. He’s from the Pacific Northwest originally, like myself, and he is finishing a degree in photojournalism at Western Kentucky University. I wanted to…

  • INTERVIEW: Walker Evans – “The Thing Itself is Such a Secret and so Unapproachable” (1974)

    INTERVIEW: Walker Evans – “The Thing Itself is Such a Secret and so Unapproachable” (1974)

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    An Interview with Walker Evans: ‘The Thing Itself is Such a Secret and so Unapproachable’ (1974) Roadside stand near Birmingham, Alabama, 1936 “I didn’t like the label that I unconsciously earned of being a social protest artist.” “The Thing Itself is Such a Secret and so Unapproachable” George Eastman House, Image Magazine, Vol. 17., No.…

  • Nick Turpin

    Nick Turpin

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    MWWhat inspired you to start taking photographs, and what is the primary inspiration for you to keep

  • Jesse Burke Interview

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    Jesse Burke Interview – A Photo Editor by Jonathan Blaustein Jonathan: For good or for bad, I think it’s helpful to start at the beginning. I haven’t yet gotten into the Tarantino-style, Reservoir Dogs-type narrative. So how did you get started? How did your photography practice begin? Jesse: via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2011/09/27/jesse-burke-interview/ Do you…

  • The 6th Floor Blog: How to Revisit an Iconic Photograph

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    Alec Soth: The show in California, “More American Photographs,”  is being organized by the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts. The idea was to commission a number of photographers to produce new work about America in the spirit of the Farm Security Administration photography of the ’30s and ’40s. I decided to use the most famous…

  • Q&A with Cornelia Hediger about her Doppelganger self portraits

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    Cornelia Hediger was awarded a Master of Fine Arts from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutge

  • Focusing on Prison Photography

    Focusing on Prison Photography

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    Focusing on Prison Photography Pete Brook is taking his Prison Photography blog on the road. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/focusing-on-prison-photography/ Pete Brook is the writer and editor of the Web site Prison Photography and the lead blogger for Raw File, the photography blog from Wired.com. Mr. Brook, 31, is undertaking a 12-week journey across the United…

  • Worlds Without Smiles: Prison Portraiture by Michal Chelbin

    Worlds Without Smiles: Prison Portraiture by Michal Chelbin

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    Worlds Without Smiles: Prison Portraiture by Michal Chelbin Last month the New Yorker Photobooth ran a sneak preview of Michal Chelbin’s tentatively titled Locked series. At the time, I responded with some personal frustration that her portraits didn&… via Prison Photography: http://prisonphotography.wordpress.com/2011/09/18/worlds-without-smiles-prison-portraiture-by-michal-chelbin/ Last month the New Yorker Photobooth ran a sneak preview of Michal Chelbin‘s…

  • Damon Winter – Where Steel Meets The Sky

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    We were so taken by Damon Winter’s photo essay in the New York Times Magazine that

  • Smells Like Teen Spirit: Tavi Gevinson Interviews Olivia Bee

    Smells Like Teen Spirit: Tavi Gevinson Interviews Olivia Bee

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/09/09/smells-like-teen-spirit-tavi-gevinson-interviews-olivia-bee/#1 At 11, Olivia Bolles started shooting when she was enrolled in a photography class by accident. Now 17, the precocious Portland-based photographer’s portraits of teen life have appeared in campaigns for Nike and Converse, as well as American Photo magazine. Bolles—who…

  • On Revolution Road, an interview with Yuri Kozyrev

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    BJP: Noor photographer Yuri Kozyrev probably has one of the most coherent and comprehensive bodies of work on the Arab Spring. Hours before winning the Visa d’Or News award, he spoke with BJP’s Olivier Laurent about the sacrifices he had to make to document four revolutions in nine months

  • Interview: Stanley Greene and the Getty Images Grants

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    BJP: Stanley Norman Greene, one of this year’s winners of the Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography and a celebrated photojournalist, speaks with BJP about his “E-Waste Trail” project and how film remains an important medium for him.

  • Conversation with Vincent Laforet on Gear, Career, Vision and More

    Conversation with Vincent Laforet on Gear, Career, Vision and More

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    Chase Jarvis Talks w Pulitzer Photographer Vincent Laforet Chase Jarvis interviews Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Vincent Laforet and discuss photography, filmmaking, career, gear, and more. via Chase Jarvis Photography: http://blog.chasejarvis.com/blog/2011/09/conversation-with-vincent-laforet-transcription/ The following is a transcription excerpt from a conversation a while back on #cjLIVE between yours truly and my dear friend, Pulitzer Prize winning photographer…

  • Murray Fredericks

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    The F Stop: Imagine living by yourself in the middle of nowhere — not a living creature in site – and all you have to keep you company is a camera and a good book. This is what photographer Murray Fredericks did sixteen times for up to five weeks each time to create an epic…

  • Interview: Guillaume Clavières

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    La Lettre: In the past, Alain Dupuis would bring us five ready-to-be-published subjects, and edited. Today we receive 15,000 photos a day which don’t interest us. Not to speak of the 35,000 to 40,000 photos which arrive the day of a marriage in London or in Monaco. But those 15,000 images that arrive on an…

  • Mr. President

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    VII Magazine: Pivotal midterm elections in the United States are taking place on Tuesday November 2nd. President Barack Obama is under increasing pressure from the Republican Party and the Tea Party to maintain control of the U.S. Congress. We thought it would be interesting to look at an exclusive interview with Christopher Morris about the…

  • Yael Ben-Zion

    Yael Ben-Zion

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    Yael Ben-Zion MW What inspired you to start taking photographs, and what is the primary inspiration for you to keep working in this field? YBZ While I… Link: http://2waylens.blogspot.com/2011/08/yael-ben-zion.html While writing my dissertation, I took a couple of photography classes that opened my eyes (literally and metaphorically) to the potential of photography as an expressive…