Category: Interviews
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Kira Pollack in Conversation with Adriana Teresa
Adriana Teresa: What would you say is the most significant progression in photography today? Kira Pollack: Speed. In the digital world, the speed and the demand for speed that stories need to be communicated—and published—is astronomical. The most critical thing that we can do as editors is to be as thoughtful as possible in response…
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Simon Roberts
Simon Roberts MW What inspired you to start taking photographs, and what is the primary inspiration for you to keep working in this field? SR My form… Link: http://2waylens.blogspot.com/2011/04/simon-roberts.html In my opinion there is no right or wrong time to start promoting your work, only hindsight can answer this question. The most important piece of…
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Tim Hetherington’s Last Interview
Outside magazine called over a month ago to ask if I would interview a photographer for their summer
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R.I.P. Miroslav Tichý
A couple of years ago we featured a selection of pictures from Miroslav Tichý in our annual Photo I
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Dan Winters Interview – Part 3
Dan Winters Interview – Part 3 – A Photo Editor Dan Winters interview part 3. Part 1 is (here). Part 2 is (here). Rob: So when did you move to Austin? Dan: We moved in 2000. I knew going into this that there’s no market in Austin. There are a lot of photographers here… Rob:…
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Dan Winters Interview – Part 2
Dan Winters Interview – Part 2 – A Photo Editor Dan Winters interview part 2. Part 1 is (here). Dan: I worked for Chris for exactly a year. When my year was coming up, and I said, ” two more months left.” And he’s like, “you’re really going to stop?” and I said, “yeah, I…
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Antonella Monzoni: Armenian Wound
Q: You photograph both in color and in black and white. Why did you decide to go black and white for this series? Was it a way to tell the long story of this people and at the same time to create a sort of distance from a raw reality? A: As soon as I…
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Dan Winters Interview – Part 1
Dan Winters Interview – Part 1 – A Photo Editor Dan Winters is one of the most recognizable, awarded and sought-after editorial photographers in the world. I’ve worked with him a number of times, even visited his studio in Austin, but it wasn’t until I got the chance to interview him that I fully under…
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Interview with Jake Shivery
I chafe a little at the idea that I’m an “antiquarian” photographer. I use the Deardorff because I’m in love with it. Because it and I work in synthesis, and because it does a great job of intimidating my subjects into holding still. I’m after a look that I think of as “classic”, but I…
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David Bailey in conversation with Andrew Graham-Dixon – Telegraph
David Bailey in conversation with Andrew Graham-Dixon The profane photographer on stars, snobbery, sculpture and why he couldn’t give a monkey’s about posterity. via Telegraph.co.uk: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/8418600/David-Bailey-in-conversation-with-Andrew-Graham-Dixon.html The profane photographer on stars, snobbery, sculpture and why he couldn’t give a monkey’s about posterity.
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Restrepo: A Conversation with Sebastian Junger
Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington visited Columbia University to discuss their documenta
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INTERVIEW: "Billy Maynard" (2011)
An Interview with Billy Maynard (2011) Billy Maynard Q & A – Trans/Tender How old are you? 19 Where were you born? Auckland What do you want to explore in your work now and in the future? I want to photograph a feeling I’ve had building inside since a young age. But without constru via…
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Thirty Days on the Ground in Libya
Goran Tomasevic of Reuters arrived in Libya on Feb. 23, having covered the upheaval in Egypt. (“Even the Middle Ground Is Perilous in Cairo,” Feb. 4.) These images, presented in chronological order, convey some sense of what a tumultuous month it has been. Kerri MacDonald interviewed Mr. Tomasevic by e-mail last week. Link: Thirty Days…
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Patrick Baz Is in His Element in Libya
Believe me, when I looked at the pictures on the screen, my hands were shaking. My heart was beating. I realized that this is a picture you take once in a blue moon. It’s being there at the right time, at the right moment, at the right place, with the right lens. If you want…
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INTERVIEW: " Lise Sarfati – The New Life Interview" (2011)
Lise Sarfati – ‘The New Life Interview’ (2011) Sloane #34, Oakland CA “Suddenly when I tried to speak with people they would not answer me. So there we were completely isolated in America while the US was at war.” By Robert Wiedenfeld for ASX, March 2011 Robert Wiedenfeld: Initially how d via AMERICAN SUBURB X:…
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L E N S C R A T C H: Success Stories: Michael Kirchoff
Sometimes you meet someone whose person and work is filled with grace and dignity. Michael Kirchoff is one of those people–kind, enthusiastic, talented, capable, and shows up prepared. And more importantly, just plain shows up. On the eve of his first solo exhibition, An Enduring Grace: Exploring the Cultural Landscape of Russia, I thought that…
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Elisabeth Biondi by Elizabeth Avedon | La Lettre de la Photographie
“A photograph is an entity. You don’t crop it, you don’t butcher it, you don’t plaster text over it, you treat it with dignity.” Link: Elisabeth Biondi by Elizabeth Avedon | La Lettre de la Photographie
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INTERVIEW: "Thomas Kern – A Drug Free Land" (2010)
Interview with Thomas Kern: “A Drug Free Land” (2011) Zabriskie Point, Death Valley, California, 2003 Thomas Kern – Interview A DRUG FREE LAND By Christian Reister, 2011, originally published by Seconds2Real Q: Thomas, tell us a little about your photographic career. TK: I became fascinated by ph via AMERICAN SUBURB X: http://www.americansuburbx.com/2011/03/interview-thomas-kern-drug-free-land.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Americansuburb+%28AMERICANSUBURBX%29 The photographs I…
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In the Thick of Libya's Brutal Fighting: Tyler Hicks Describes One of the Toughest Battles He's Ever Photographed – NYTimes.com
In the Thick of Libya’s Brutal Fighting Tyler Hicks has covered Kosovo, Chechnya, Congo, Ethiopia, Sudan, Iraq and Afghanistan. He said the battling Wednesday in Libya ranked among the worst he has seen. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/09/in-the-thick-of-libyas-brutal-fighting/ When Tyler Hicks says that he has just witnessed what may have been the “thickest fighting in a…
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Michael Wolf welcomes World Press Photo controversy – BJP
A month after receiving a honorable mention in this year’s World Press Photo contest, photographer Michael Wolf catches up with BJP. Video interview Link: Michael Wolf welcomes World Press Photo controversy – British Journal of Photography