Category: Interviews
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Q&A: Chris Zedano, New York – Feature Shoot
Link: Chris Zedano, originally from Lima, Peru, has been living and working in New York since 2002. For this project, Staple Street, he has photographed some of New York’s most interesting characters on a street in Tribeca (Staple Street) that dates back to at least the early 19th century.
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2010: What Does it all Mean?! Also: Hero James Muspratt. | A Photography Blog
Link: I redesigned and relaunched my own portfolio site recently, and I worked with the wonderful James Muspratt to make it happen. So here is an interview with the fellow.
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Interview: Christopher Morris talks about his videos of the American presidents | dvafoto
Link: You probably already know Christopher Morris‘ work. One of the founding members of VII, his conflict photography is unparalleled and his recent work on American politics, including the book “My America,” has redefined visual coverage of the White House. You might not know that Morris has been making videos in addition to his still…
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Inside the Minds of Bill Stockland and Maureen Martel | RESOLVE
Link: Stockland Martel, founded in 1980 by Maureen Martel and Bill Stockland, is one of the best-known and respected photo-representation agencies in the country. In this interview conducted by Kristina Feliciano, who runs the Stockland Martel blog, Bill and Maureen explain how they built their auspicious roster, which includes Nadav Kander, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, and Doug…
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Lens Culture Conversations with Photographers: Simon Roberts
Link: British Photographer Simon Roberts chooses to embark on long-term, in-depth visual studies of people and the places they live. He describes his work as socio-documentary photography, which when viewed as a whole, can be seen as a rich, subjective source of visual anthropology of contemporary life.
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On Assignment: Prayers in the Dark – Lens
On Assignment: Prayers in the Dark Damon Winter of The New York Times arrived in Port-au-Prince on Wednesday. James Estrin spoke with him at midnight Thursday. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/15/assignment-19/ Damon Winter of The New York Times arrived in Port-au-Prince on Wednesday. He has been traveling through the city in a car shared with Ron…
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AMERICANSUBURB X: INTERVIEW: "Interview with Walker Evans (1971)"
Link: The following oral history transcript is the result of a tape-recorded interview with Walker Evans conducted by Paul Cummings for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. The interview took place at the home of Walker Evans in Connecticut on October 13, 1971 and in his apartment in New York City on December 23,…
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Behind The New York Times Magazine's Redesign with DD Arem Duplessis – Grids
Link: In June of this year, The New York Times unveiled a major redesign of their Sunday magazine, the first in almost a decade, and one of only a handful ever in its more than 100 years. Under the leadership of Design Director Arem Duplessis, a more lithe version of the magazine (smaller by about…
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Ron Haviv in Haiti: “Silence and Submission” – Lens
On Assignment: “Silence and Submission” Ron Haviv of the VII agency has been to Haiti at least 15 times. On arrival last week, he felt something new: the “overwhelming power of silence and submission.” via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/19/assignment-21/ Each time is a different experience. I usually am here due to some major force; perhaps an…
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APhoBlo Interview: Erin Nicole Johnson! | A Photography Blog
Link: Today we have an interview with Erin Nicole Johnson, a photographer I find really thoughtful and funny and interesting. I think you will too. read read read. look look look.
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Wonderful Machine » Haiti From Our Photographer’s Eyes
Link: My arrival in Haiti was shocking…the amount of people in the streets, people wandering around wounded from the earthquake (broken limbs, open head wounds etc.)…people were now living on the streets for fear of another earthquake or due to the loss of their homes.
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AMERICANSUBURB X: INTERVIEW: "Monkeys Make the Problem More Difficult – A Collective Interview with Garry Winogrand" (1970)
Link: Garry Winogrand (1928- ) spent two days in Rochester, New York, in October, 1970. On Friday, the 9th, he was the guest of the Rochester Institute of Technology. On Saturday, the 10th, he visited the Visual Studies Workshop, also in Rochester. The format was identical on both occasions: Winogrand, without comment, showed slides of…
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Q&A: Mark Leong, Beijing
Link: ‘In any case, the subject was very fresh to me, exciting but also daunting because of the massive scale and steep learning curve (of which I’m still somewhere down near the foot). There has already been some good photo reportage on the trade, so when my editor Kathy Moran and I mapped out our…
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The Visual Student » Two of a Kind, Photographer Couples: Jenn Ackerman and Tim Gruber
Link: This is first part of a series about photographer couples, called “Two of a Kind.” Part one features Jenn Ackerman and Tim Gruber.
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AMERICAN SUBURB X: INTERVIEW: "Extending the Frame: An Interview with Susan Meiselas" (2006)
Link: As for “new documentary,” I find some of these approaches of interest, particularly the focus on a more distanced “aftermath,” rather than “decisive” moments of engagement. I still feel the dividing line is when photographers re-enact, which is closer to the tradition of docudrama than reportage. Sometimes it is very effective but defining the…
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Week 56: Daniel Puissant
Link: For as long as I can remember I have always noticed the small shifts in reality, things that don’t readily register as incongruous or shocking, but rather the things that make me smile or think about how people function. I would constantly tell whomever is standing next to me: did you see this? there,…
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Dossier Journal » Ryan McGinley Interview
Link: This Thursday, Ryan McGinley will have his third solo show at Team Gallery. An exhibition of new work, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, will run from March 18 through April 17 and will be accompanied by a monograph published by Dashwood Book. David Strettell, the book’s publisher (also, of course, the owner of the…
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Combat Photography, Wounded Warriors & The Long Wait for Help – A Picture's Worth
Link: We caught up with PhotoShelter member Stacy Pearsall last week at the 2010 D.C. Shoot Off. Stacy is a retired Air Force Staff Sergeant and two-time winner of the Military Photographer of the Year award. She did three tours of duty in Iraq.
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Idurre Alonso (Curator, MoLAA): In Conversation – The New York Photo Festival
Link: IA: Since photography in Latin America encompasses all types of aesthetics including documentary, conceptual and experimental formats, among others, heterogeneity is probably its only unifying element. What is clear to me is that Latin American photography moves in multiple ways; in some instances the works reflect the contextual realities of their site production while…