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
Category: Interviews
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Michael Wolf welcomes World Press Photo controversy – BJP
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Conscientious Extended | A Conversation with Nadav Kander
The work of Nadav Kander has always fascinated me. My curiosity only grew when seeing Obama’s People and later working on the review of Yangtze, The Long River. I finally approached Nadav and asked him whether he had a moment to talk about his work. I’m grateful he did.
Link: Conscientious Extended | A Conversation with Nadav Kander
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Finding a Place in Bahraini Society: Hazel Thompson Photographs Five Accomplished Women – NYTimes.com
Finding a Place in Bahraini Society
In photographing the women of Bahrain, Hazel Thompson learned that she had to pierce a veil of her own preconceptions.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/finding-a-place-in-bahraini-society/
For her “Measure of a Woman” project, Hazel Thompson spent six months in 2007 and 2008 in Bahrain and Qatar, documenting women’s roles in modern Arab culture. James Estrin interviewed her in New York last week about her experiences in Bahrain.
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10 minutes with Melissa Golden – this is the what
10 minutes with Melissa Golden
When did you first know that you wanted to be a photographer? I went to college to study international affairs. I wanted to be a diplomat, but I’m about as diplomatic as a box of grenades. I…
via this is the what: http://www.thisisthewhat.com/?p=1156
My primary goal for this year is to establish myself in LA. While I’m not exactly starting from scratch, moving to another city does tend to cause career coma. I knew that before I made the decision to relocate and all I can do now is market myself well and produce fresh, eye-catching work.
Along those lines, I want to shoot at least three personal projects in 2011.
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B: Q & A with Nancy Rexroth
Q & A with Nancy Rexroth
Self Portrait, Athens, Ohio 1969, Nancy Rexroth • from the preface to Nancy Rexroth’s Iowa • Since its publication in 1977 Nancy Re…
Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2011/02/q-with-nancy-rexroth.html
Since its publication in 1977 Nancy Rexroth’s book Iowa has become an underground classic. Shot in the small rural country of Southeastern Ohio using a Diana camera with a plastic lens, and named after her childhood memories, the book is mysterious on many levels. It has long been out of print and copies are scarce. I found one at the University of Oregon library, quickly fell in love with it, and eventually tracked down its author to ask some questions about Iowa, Diana, and photography.
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World Press Photo: Is Google Street View photojournalism? – British Journal of Photography
German artist and photographer Michael Wolf received an honorable mention in this year’s World Press Photo for his work A Series of Unfortunate Events based on Google Street View. He speaks with BJP
Link: World Press Photo: Is Google Street View photojournalism? – British Journal of Photography
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'The Sweet Things' in a Changing Brooklyn Neighborhood – NYTimes.com
Love, Family and Change in Brooklyn
Russell Frederick set out to document the “sweet things” about Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/05/love-family-and-change-in-brooklyn/
Russell Frederick has been documenting the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn as part of an ongoing project since 1999. Mr. Frederick, 40, is a member of Kamoinge, a New York-based collective and is working on his first solo exhibition “Black.” Mr. Frederick spoke with me this week in New York.
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Getting Into Cairo's Byways: Ed Ou Describes His Approach in Egypt – NYTimes.com
Getting Into Cairo’s Byways
There is safety in numbers in Cairo, but Ed Ou is trying, when he can, to break away from the photo pack.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/getting-into-cairos-byways/
Ed Ou was an intern at The Times (“A Dozen Promising Photographers“) and is now a freelancer, represented by Reportage by Getty Images, shooting for The Times in Egypt. He has photographed in the Middle East, Africa and the former Soviet republics. James Estrin spoke with him by phone early Sunday morning and early Monday morning, Cairo time.
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Rania Matar: Personal and Poetic, Part 2 « The Leica Camera
Rania Matar’s work focuses mainly on women and women’s issues. She has created searing documentaries of the lives of women and children in the Middle East, the Palestinian refugee camps, the recent spread of the veil and its meanings, the aftermath of war and the Christians of the Middle East. The universal theme: revealing the day-to-day existence of people who have been forgotten or misunderstood with singular compassion and sensitivity. At her home Boston, Massachusetts, she photographs her four children at all stages of their lives and is currently working on a new body of work, “A Girl and her Room,” photographing teenage girls from different backgrounds
Link: Rania Matar: Personal and Poetic, Part 2 « The Leica Camera
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Donald Weber's Interrogation Room – British Journal of Photography
Donald Weber spent four months shooting inside a police interrogation room in the Ukraine, creating a complex portrait of petty criminals as they undergo their “trial by ordeal”, captured at the moment of confession. Diane Smyth questions him.
Link: Donald Weber’s Interrogation Room – British Journal of Photography
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INTERVIEW: "Pieter Hugo in Conversation with Joanna Lehan" (2007)
I’d been working as a photojournalist for newspapers but was never really any good at it. I found that my presence would affect a situation very much, and for me, trying to be a fly on the wall, capturing some sort of instant, just wasn’t working. I managed to buy a second-hand Hasselblad and took a trip to Namibia. Along the way I shot everything that caught my eye, including some railway workers who lived in the middle of the desert along the tracks. When I printed their portraits I felt more resonance with these prints than I ever had before with my photographs.
Link: INTERVIEW: “Pieter Hugo in Conversation with Joanna Lehan” (2007)
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CHRISTOPH BANGERT: 'Nobody is trying to get rich here' | Emphas.is Blog
German photographer CHRISTOPH BANGERT is part of a new generation of photojournalists that came of age post-9/11 and well into the internet era. “The difference with former generations is perhaps that we take a broader view. We know that it is not enough to have good pictures; you have to be good at communicating too.”
Link: CHRISTOPH BANGERT: ‘Nobody is trying to get rich here’ | Emphas.is Blog
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Must read: Emphas.is blog interviews | dvafoto
Emphas.is is starting the new year off with a bang on their blog with a great series of interviews looking at the current state of photojournalism and people who are pushing beyond the traditional bounds of newspaper and magazine photography.
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B: Q & A with Joni Karanka
Q & A with Joni Karanka
It’s been less than a year since Cardiff’s Third Floor Gallery opened last Feb. 12th with a show of Peter Dench photographs. Since then it …
Link: http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2011/01/q-with-joni-karanka.html
It’s been less than a year since Cardiff’s Third Floor Gallery opened last Feb. 12th with a show of Peter Dench photographs. Since then it has quickly matured into one of the UK’s strongest photo galleries. I caught up recently with gallery co-founder Joni Karanka to talk about Third Floor and related topics.
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Ruins of Detroit | La Lettre de la Photographie
Roman Meffre and Yves Marchand are two young French men who spent five years taking pictures of the city of Detroit, the world’s now
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Covering Marines at War, Through Facebook: Teru Kuwayama and the Basetrack Project – NYTimes.com
Covering Marines at War, Through Facebook
Teru Kuwayama, one of the photographers of Basetrack, tells Michael Kamber why the future of journalism may be on Facebook.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/21/covering-marines-at-war-through-facebook/
Basetrack is a Web-based reporting initiative with the photographers Teru Kuwayama, Balazs Gardi and Tivadar Domaniczky. Its “forward crew” is embedded with the First Battalion, Eighth Marines in Afghanistan. The rest of the team tracks regional news and relevant information, adding it to material transmitted from Afghanistan.
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Mongolian Diptychs Tell of Profound Change: A Yin and Sim Chi Yin Talk About His Work – NYTimes.com
Mongolian Diptychs Tell of Profound Change
A Yin’s reward for living in a village of gers has been the chance to record a vanishing way of life in China. Sim Chi Yin interviews him.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/20/mongolian-diptychs-tell-of-profound-change/
A Yin is documenting his home province of Inner Mongolia. He is a self-taught anthropologist-photographer who has made it his mission to record the last of the nomads there. The phenomenal changes he captures tell the broader story of China’s transformation. Mr. Yin was cited by the National Geographic All Roads Film Project in 2007. Sim Chi Yin, a photographer and writer based in Beijing, interviewed Mr. Yin for Lens.
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Nii Obodai: Ghana, Who Knows Tomorrow? « The Leica Camera
If you don’t play, your mind can’t grow. I started exploring photography because the image can be so much fun and the more I grew, the more I tended to perceive through photographs the special relationship between myself and Ghana, the country of my birth.
Link: Nii Obodai: Ghana, Who Knows Tomorrow? « The Leica Camera
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Interview with Marisa Portolese
Marisa Portolese: The representation of women is at the root of my practice. In most of my projects with the exception of a few, women figure prominently and the female psyche is widely explored. I firmly believe that the world belongs to men and that women are still severely underrepresented. It is with the project entitled “Belle de Jour” that I began to work specifically with women as my primary subjects.
