Category: Interviews

  • Retail Therapy: Brian Ulrich’s Copia

    Retail Therapy: Brian Ulrich’s Copia

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/08/25/brian-ulrich-copia-retail-thrift-and-dark-stores/#1 Taken from the Latin word for plenty, Copia, is the 10-year-old brain child of photographer Brian Ulrich: his in-depth exploration of American consumer culture. The project consists of three-parts: Retail, Thrift, and Dark Stores. TIME spoke with Brian about his inspiration for…

  • BLINK Magazine Interview

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    BLINK Magazine Interview – A Photo Editor Blink magazine a labor of love by Korean native Kim Aram. The magazine features personal work by emerging, established and undiscovered photographers. Issue 5 has just been released. Heidi: How do you select the images, do you choose a theme for each issu via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2011/08/18/blink-magazine-interview/…

  • A Conversation with Benjamin Lowy

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    Ben Lowy on Conscientious: The public today is more visually sophisticated than ever before. The overwhelming dearth of information available on the internet tends to weaken the impact of content. Important stories get lost in the fray. So as photographers – as creatives and not just journalists – we have the added task of developing…

  • 10 Minutes with Timothy Archibald

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    10 minutes with Timothy Archibald When did you first know that you wanted to be a photographer? If for some reason you never picked up a camera, what other path do you think you may have followed? I got interested in photography wh… via this is the what: http://www.thisisthewhat.com/2011/08/10-minutes-with-timothy-archibald/ But for me, the advent of…

  • Todd Korol: A Pro’s Pro, Part Two

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    Leica Camera Blog: I love aspects in a photograph that are out of focus, but add an element to the photograph. It could be a lone figure or an out of focus building; all these things add to the mood of the photograph. I often think about creating a mood or feeling of a place…

  • Newly Formed Agency Avec Artists

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    Newly Formed Agency Avec Artists – A Photo Editor Recently launched Avec Artistsis a new boutique photo agency run by Carrie Ferriter in NYC. This new agency is part of Bruce Kramer’s growing fiefdom, the Kramer Creative Group which is set to launch this month along with a relaunch of JAW (Just Add Water via…

  • Kurt Markus Interview – Part 2

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    Kurt Markus Interview – Part 2 – A Photo Editor [Part 1 is here] Rob: The book “After Barbed Wire” came out and your phone started ringing with a few assignments, then you had a gallery show in New York and more assignments, so did your career take off like a rocket after that? Kurt:…

  • Kurt Markus Interview – Part 1

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    Kurt Markus Interview – Part 1 – A Photo Editor Rob: I want to start at the beginning. When and where did you start making pictures? Kurt: I got out of the army in the early ’70s and I knew one thing, that whatever it was that I was going to do with my life,…

  • Interview With Ariel Shanberg, Center for Photography at Woodstock

    Interview With Ariel Shanberg, Center for Photography at Woodstock

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    Interview With Ariel Shanberg, Center for Photography at Woodstock – A Photo Editor by Jonathan Blaustein Ariel Shanberg is the Executive Director of the Center for Photography at Woodstock. He curated the exhibition “Camp: Visiting Day,” that is on view at CPW through August 28, 2011. Jonathan Blaustein: You’ve got a background in art. via…

  • Susan Burnstine

    Susan Burnstine

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    Susan Burnstine MW What inspired you to start taking photographs, and what is the primary inspiration for you to keep working in this field? SB My mother … Link: http://2waylens.blogspot.com/2011/07/susan-burnstine.html Words like “status” and “success” make me itchy since they tend to define my work in a way that has an absolute or an ending,…

  • INTERVIEW: "Mark Steinmetz" (2011)

    INTERVIEW: "Mark Steinmetz" (2011)

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    An Interview with Mark Steinmetz (2011) Bourbon St, New Orleans, 1995 @ Mark Steinmetz “I don’t begin a project with an agenda that is going to over-determine the outcome. I think it begins with a faint vision – one of those whispers on a breeze – that somehow gets a grip on me.” By A…

  • ‘Homies’: A Conversation with Adam Amengual

    ‘Homies’: A Conversation with Adam Amengual

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    ‘Homies’: A Conversation with Adam Amengual INTRODUCTION Los Angeles based photographer, Adam Amengual says of his series Homies: “Through the help of the non profit Homeboy Industries I photographed people who have made the decision to chan… via Prison Photography: http://prisonphotography.wordpress.com/2011/07/21/homies-a-conversation-with-adam-amengual/ Homies is very striking; the unorthodox subjects under studio lighting both captures and confuses…

  • INTERVIEW: "Ryan McGinley" (2007)

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    American Suburb X: I loved photography graffiti writers because I identified with their insanity. These crazy kids that wrote their name tens of thousands of times all over the city. Hanging off rooftops 15 stories up to make their art. I felt the same making photos all day and night everyday and night. I was…

  • A Western Photographer in Hama, Syria

    A Western Photographer in Hama, Syria

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    Moises Saman says that his trip into Syria with Anthony Shadid was one of the craziest things he’s d

  • AN INTERVIEW WITH KEN MILLER

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    From Vice Magazine… Ken Miller’s 1995 book, Open All Night, is an explicit, at times brutal, and occasionally comic look at the underbelly of San Francisco in the 80s. The book prompted us to hunt him down for this year’s Photo Issue, and when we found him via his wedding photography website we discovered he…

  • David Young V Interview

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    David Young V is on a mission. Shuttling between two studio spaces in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco— frequently in the dead of night—he engages in the business of recovering fragments from a future world. To hear him speak about the tomorrow he foresees; a world of zealots, martyrs, psychotic orphans and armed bike…

  • Junku Nishimura: Street Shooting Set to Music

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    Junku Nishimura, a Tokyo-based street photographer, shoots with the Leica M5, or as he likes to describe it, he’s a “midnight boozer with Leica M5.” Junku has a distinctly retro style of shooting, which reflects his own reluctance to accept change and let go of his favorite worn in possessions. He is also a member…

  • Embodiment: A Portrait of Queer Life in America

    Embodiment: A Portrait of Queer Life in America

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    In 2004, photographer Molly Landreth began a project documenting the diverse lives of queer American

  • Todd Korol: A Pro’s Pro, Part One

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    Todd Korol, a Canadian who lives with his family in Calgary, Alberta, has spent the last 20 years traversing the world with camera in hand on assignment for international publications including Time, Sports Illustrated and the New York Times and he has worked with corporate clients including Apple, Visa, Rolex and several other household names.…

  • A Conversation with Alia Malley

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    I don’t remember where or how I came across Alia Malley’s 2009/10 Southland, but I do remember the photography stayed with me for a while. There was something about those landscapes that struck me. Recently, someone pointed me to Alia’s new series A Cavalier in Sight of a Village, for which she was (in fact…