Category: Interviews
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.”…
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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. Link: Must read: Emphas.is blog interviews | dvafoto
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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…
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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 abandoned car construction capital. Link: Ruins of Detroit | La Lettre de la Photographie
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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,…
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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…
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camerabag.tv – FRANK OCKENFELS
Link: camerabag.tv – FRANK OCKENFELS via: » Blog Archive » Interview with Frank Ockenfels
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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…
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Lessons from a Portfolio Review – A Picture's Worth
Earlier this fall, way back in October, we offered one photographer the chance to attend NYC Fotoworks portfolio review in NY. This two-day event brought together some of the top editors and photo buyers in the industry with photographers from around the world. It was a great opportunity to get face time with a lot…