Category: Interviews

  • The F STOP » Professional Photographers Discuss Their Craft » Article Archive » Guy Neveling

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    : Compared to the monkey, everything else was a cinch, says Guy Neveling, when asked about the production of our featured image, an advertisement for Volkswagen. “The monkey was all over the studio.” That is, until the time came for something rarely heard of in stateside shoots—his afternoon nap. A skilled photographer working in a…

  • A Photo Essay's Long Journey – – PopPhotoJanuary 2008

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    : From his first job at a small south Chicago paper to his current position as a staff photographer for the Chicago Tribune, Scott Strazzante has carried with him a personal project about a family farm near Lockport, Illinois. Now presented as a  slide show for the Chicago Tribune Magazine titled Another Country, Strazzante’s diptychs pair…

  • Gulfnews: Marriage wows – Denis Reggie

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    : At a wedding, Denis Reggie rarely asks the couple to pose for pictures. In fact, they often do not even know that he is shooting photographs which will make it to their wedding album. Then why are clients willing to pay upwards of $25,000 for their wedding pictures? Ritu Raizada finds out. Check it…

  • Behind the Lens with Brian Skerry – – PopPhotoJanuary 2008

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    : This month we focus on Brian Skerry, an underwater photographer with National Geographic Magazine. Skerry has been on nearly 10,000 dives throughout his career, visiting dive sites around the world. Skerry’s incredible talent for capturing marine life has led not only to his career at National Geographic, but has helped his work stand out…

  • SpearTalks: Heather Powazek Champ – Josh Spear

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    : To my eye, there’s something integral to photography that’s not translating from film to digital. This isn’t to say that I think that digital is crap, but there’s definitely something missing. I also think that a photographer’s relationship with shooting is quite different when it’s film and when it’s digital. If I buy fresh…

  • Nextbook: Fighting Shots

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    : Even if you’ve never heard his name, chances are you know the work of David Rubinger. For roughly six decades he worked as a Time-Life photographer, documenting Israel’s tumultuous history. Some of his photographs, such as the 1967 shot of Israeli paratroopers reaching the Western Wall, have become icons. In 1997 he was awarded…

  • MoMA.org | Exhibitions | 2008 | Jan De Cock | Interview

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    : Photography is a medium that feels natural to me. Once you place the camera in front of the eye, it constructs the world. The camera foregrounds the power of temporal and spatial affectivity as seen and thought. In fact, you could say that what I do is create frameworks. I frame the space within…

  • Steve McCurry: An Interview with PDN

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    Check it out: : Steve McCurry: An Interview with PDN Long before he became a contributor to National Geographic, published dozens of books on Asia or took his famous portrait of “Afghan Girl,” Steve McCurry found his voice as a photographer during the during years he spent touring India and the subcontinent in the late…

  • whats the jackanory ?: London calling

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    whats the jackanory ?: London calling: “I did a shoot for Sunday Times on the 3rd Jan. The wold champion female track cyclist. A Brit. Big hopes for the Olympics. Great ! A job immediately after the new year – it gets your confidence up and your new year is out the traps. I got…

  • Interview with John Sexton

    Interview with John Sexton

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    Digital Outback: We conducted our first interview with John Sexton. John is a highly regarded master B&W photographer and printer. Bettina and I had the chance to meet John and his wife Anne in his Carmel Valley studio. We add some of John’s pictures to present the interview in the context of John’s masterful images.…

  • Audio interview with Joachim Ladefoged

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    From Journal of a Photographer: I know Joachim Ladefogeds work for quite some time now. I met him during the New York VII Seminar on October 16th 2005 were we also recorded this interview in an empty classroom at the School of Visual Arts. The total length of the interview is 41:50 minutes. Here.

  • The God Effect: an interview with John Cliett

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    Cool interview with photographer Cliett, from Cabinet Magazine: On November 1, 1977, Walter De Maria completed The Lightning Field, a monumental array of 400 polished stainless steel poles arranged in a rectangular grid roughly one mile by one kilometer in size. The following year, New York-based photographer John Cliett moved to site of the work,…

  • Q&A with photographer shot in Iraq

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    From PDN, Q&A with Toby Morris of ZUMA Press: When it first happened, I was really embarrassed to be the photographer who got shot. Because you know that your peers might say, “That guy Toby, he’s a hot dog.” But I’m not Robert Capa, man, I wasn’t standing on top of the trench. I was…

  • The Web This Morning

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    Punk – Anti-Flag releases third song from their upcoming major label album, “For Blood and Empire” (I’ve heard the album, it ain’t bad. Listen to the song The Press Corpse to hear Anti-Flag at their best.) Punk – FatWreckChords new podcast Photography – Getty Images editorial photography grants to Andrew Testa and Kristen Ashburn (portfolios)…

  • David Leeson Interview

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    I met photographer David Leeson a few years ago when we were speaking at the same photojournalism workshop in Omaha. It was like finding a long lost brother, so many things did we have in common. We shared the same obsessive compulsive immersive behaviors, the inability to stop or slow down, and as the conversation…