Category: Interviews

  • Our red cloth na im be our guns

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    Daniel Alabrah of The Sun News On-line says:

    “Will you be willing to tell me your name?” I asked politely, smiling warmly. He responded almost immediately in pidgin English, laced with heavy Ijaw accent.

    “They call me Two-minute Fighter.”
    What a name, I muttered to myself, ready with the next question.
    “Why Two-minute Fighter?” I threw another one, as I tried to settle down.
    “It is because of the way I operate,” he retorted.
    Somehow, this reporter sensed that his initial suspicion had subsided and the following encounter ensued.

  • Susan Burnstine: Between Worlds

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    PHOTOGRAPHERS SPEAK says:

    Finding the right camera to express one’s vision is a challenge that every photographer must deal with at some point. When conventional cameras proved unsatisfactory for Susan Burnstine, however, she simply decided to build her own in order to channel the haunting, dreamlike imagery that has won her widespread critical acclaim over the past several years.

  • For photographers, pursuing passions always pays off

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    RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog says:

    Daniel Beltra has turned his passion for nature and his frequent work for Greenpeace into an award-winning career, including World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year International, National Press Photographers Association, and Lucies awards — he calls his recent success “a snowball.” We couldn’t help but ask what got the snowball rolling in the first place.

  • Videos: New York Photo Festival Curators

    PDN says:

    The New York Photo Festival is running through Sunday. On our PDNPulse blog, we are posting short video interviews with each of the four main curators

  • Two Way Lens: Susan Wides

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    Susan Wides says:

    My photographs explore what I see and what it sparks in me– the way the physical phenomena of the world are experienced by the senses and imagination. Intuitive insights, states of awareness, and visual thinking – manifestations that exist only in fleeting perception are at the center of my work.

  • Anthony Suau interview < words on photography

    Via Tom Leininger

  • plus1mag | Issue 12 Out Now. Ha-Ha

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    Interview with photographer Boogie in this issue.

  • Surfing Magazine Photographer Jeff Flindt Shoots the Curl!

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    Marc Silber says:

    As an avid surfer myself,  if was especially fun interviewing Surfing Magazine’s Senior Staff photographer, Jeff Flindt

  • Will Steacy – BOMBLog

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    BOMBLog says:

    Will Steacy is like the lovechild of Charles Bukowski and Dorothea Lange. I first saw his work when he won the Magenta Foundation Emerging Photographers Award. His writing drew me closer. The son of a Philadelphia reporter, he is the author of the first blog I was ever compelled to read in its entirety

    Via APhotoEditor

  • Q&A: Paul Sika, Cote d’Ivoire

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    Feature Shoot says:

    Fashion and advertising photographer, artist and creative director Paul Sika was featured in the 2007 summer edition of Olympus User Magazine UK. For this vibrant series, Sika created the environments using actors and carefully staged sets to convey a powerful social narrative.

  • PHOTOGRAPHER’S Q&A – VERONICA HENRI

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    NPAC – News Photographers Association of Canada says:

    The Photographer’s Q&A focuses on Canadian photographers and visual journalists. This is an ongoing series posted every Monday.

    This week’s Q&A is with Veronica Henri, Sun Media.

  • Matt Black: A Commitment to Truth

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    PHOTOGRAPHERS SPEAK says:

    I think that the collective understanding of this country is very superficial, and big parts of it are just left out, deemed unimportant. It’s not just about being unfair; it’s something that makes for the kind of places where things are allowed to fester. It’s a whole other world, an alternate America. To the extent that my photographs can play a part in addressing some of that, I’m more than proud.

  • Saul Leiter: The Quiet Iconoclast

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    PHOTOGRAPHERS SPEAK says:

    No, they did not. My mother thought I could be a rabbi and still paint on the third floor. “Who would know?” she would say. My father thought photography was done by lowlifes. My family was very unhappy about my becoming a photographer—profoundly and deeply unhappy. That’s not what they wanted for me, but I don’t want to go into it.

  • Krzysztof Pruszkowski: Photographing What Doesn’t Exist

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    PHOTOGRAPHERS SPEAK says:

    I created the “total vision” concept of Photosynthesis in opposition to the dogmatic concept of the “decisive moment” formed in the middle of the 20th century by Henri Cartier-Bresson. That aesthetic became the “canon obligatoire” in photography, and it also became a nice product for the export of French culture and lifestyle. The paradoxical fact is that the exceptional quality of Cartier-Bresson’s reportage, and the quality of documentary photography in France in general, brought photography to a standstill—like painting in the 19th century—and inhibited French photographers from developing a modern vision.

  • It Takes a Village Part I: Ingrid Spangler and Adoramapix

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    A Photography Blog. says:

    So as I was saying, a few ladies and I have put together a landscape show for the The New York Photo Festival. I’ve curated things before, but largely for an online arena, and let me tell you– there are a lot of details involved in a 17-person show. And you know who is in the details? Yup, The Devil.

  • whats the jackanory ? – this american youth


    American Youth May Gallery – Images by Redux Pictures

    whats the jackanory says:

    To get our festival coverage started we approached Jasmine DeFoore the Director of Marketing for and producer of Redux Pictures American Youth book, which is being launched at the festival, for a bit of a Q&A

  • Shooting a prince’s photo book to fight global deforestation

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    RESOLVE — the liveBooks photo blog says:

    Conservation photographer Daniel Beltrá was named the winner of The Prince’s Rainforests Project (PRP) Award on April 16 at this year’s Sony World Photography Awards Gala ceremony in Cannes, France. The award includes a three-month expedition to document threatened tropical rainforests in the Amazon, Africa, and Indonesia, all fully funded by Sony Eco.

  • Russian Youth, Prisons & the Icon: An Interview with Yana Payusova

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    From Prison Photography:

    Yana Payusova’s Russian Prison Series is a complex portrait with embedded cultural memes and fierce visual détournement. It is a strong and commited project. Russian Prisons Series, painted photographs of forgotten incarcerated Russian youth is Payusova’s most extensive use of photogaphy in her many series

    Check it out here

  • chairman of the boards: ben baker

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    From whats the jackanory ?:

    I was leafing through the new edition of Fortune magazine the other day, the annual Fortune 500 issue to be specific. Amongst all the facts, figures, graphs and charts I was excited to see a massive photo spread with the directors of some of America’s largest companies from my old mucker Ben Baker.

    Check it out here

  • Elizabeth Avedon

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    From A Photo Editor:

    I was corresponding with Elizabeth Avedon after I posted several pages from Rolling Stone Magazine’s seminal political photo essay “The Family” shot by Richard Avedon, because as it turns out Elizabeth was working in the photographer’s studio at the time designing the cover of the book “Portraits.” She was telling me some fascinating stories about working with Richard Avedon along with revealing the fact that she designed that issue of RS and so I asked her a few question. The first obviously was if she’s related to Richard to which she replied that at one time she was married to his son.

    Check it out here