Category: Interviews

  • A Conversation with CPC 2012 Winner Olivia Locher

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    I think that the first step to a good photograph is the importance that it holds to the creator. I myself find that I am attracted to artists who follow their vision and make work without consideration for an audience

  • Intriguing Portraits of Town Wanderers

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    Photographer Allison Sexton earned her MFA in Photography from Yale University and was the 2010 recipient of the Tracey Baran Award. She currently lives in Greenfield, Massachusetts and is an adjunct professor at the Greenfield Community College. She recently talked to us about Striders, a series of intimate portraits connecting photographer and subject.

  • Jim Goldberg: Postcards from America, Magnum Miami

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    Magnum Miami’s purpose is to examine the citizens of Florida around the time of the U.S. presidential election. It is part of  the Postcards from America  project where Magnum photographers have come together to work collaboratively. Previously, we’ve featured Mikhael Subotzky and Bruce Gilden’s reportage. In this next installment, Jim Goldberg discusses his participation in the project.

  • Leslie Baldwin

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    Leslie Baldwin is one of the most sought after photo editors in Texas.   She shares her insights, favorite TM covers, and advice on approaching photo editors.  ” You have to be totally passionate and dedicated or you’re going to get steam-rolled. Next comes perseverance and patience. Oh, and be nice!  That’s very, very important.”

  • Photographer Embarks on the Great American Road Trip and Finds a Country “Falling Short”

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    Traveling the country I repeatedly came across social centers that had shifted into parking lots, main streets that had disappeared in the wake of big-box stores, and a country where soda has become cheaper than water. I encountered figures that walked with their heads hung low past a landscape covered in signs for credit repair, CEO Income from Home, vasectomy reversal, cigarette sales, fast food, and liquor stores

  • Interview and Portfolios: Evan Baden

    Interview and Portfolios: Evan Baden

    Lauren, 2010 from Technically Intimate — Evan Baden We are pleased to announce that three new portfolios of photographs by Evan B…

    Link: https://blog.photoeye.com/2013/04/interview-and-portfolios-evan-baden.html

    Working on Technically Intimate and seeing the way that young people posed for the camera got me thinking about the way that they learn those poses; which is how I ended up focusing on the way that popular culture and media effect those who grow up surrounded by it

  • Live Through This by Tony Fouhse & Stephanie MacDonald

    Live Through This by Tony Fouhse & Stephanie MacDonald

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    We had many, many talks about whether what we were doing should be made public in a serialized way. I was much more worried about it that she was. I didn’t want to turn what we were doing into a reality show and I didn’t want to jeopardize her safety in any way, either on the street amongst her peers or with the police (who, after a while, were following the blog).

  • A rambling conversation with Greg Gorman

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    If you get down to the nitty gritty – it’s about one concept: People. Relationships. Communication. Connection. That’s what gets my motor going. What’s great about meeting the wine-makers is it’s like meeting the stars I met before. They’re like my new heroes. My movie stars of today. They’re really glorified farmers – and awesome people

  • Chris Pichler: The book maverick by Jeff Dunas

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    Nazraeli has published over 400 titles in the 25 years Chris Pichler has been exercising his vision for photo books. Jeff Dunas sat down with the maverick and tried to figure out what makes his publishing house so different from the others.

  • Maggie Steber: Seeing Past the Veil, Part 1

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    When I applied for my first job at a small Texas daily paper, the managing editor told me the position would go to a male applicant. I talked him into giving me 24 hours to prove myself. I went out, found a story, photographed it, interviewed people, wrote the story, printed the pictures and returned to his office 24 hours later with a story of importance in the small town, ready for publication. He hired me on the spot. I never say die!

  • Maggie Steber: Seeing Past the Veil, Part 2

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    Here, is the second and final installment on her amazing career, including her thoughtful views on her personal goals and achievements and her observations on the role and relevance of photography in today’s rapidly changing world of digital imaging

  • Grazia Neri: The Lady of Photography

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    Avoid cliché, wonder if the photo has a real meaning before presenting it to a magazine or to a gallery. Live your life, especially when young in the middle of photography (exhibitions, festivals, conference and web where you have many contents for free). Learn about copyright laws. Be friend with other photographers: they could be the best critics of your pictures.

  • Visa pour l’Image: Jean-François Leroy on social media, the future of photojournalism and the need for greater cooperation (2/2)

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    “Unfortunately, we are in a business where there is no joint effort; it’s every man for himself,” says Jean-François Leroy in an interview with Lucas Menget and Olivier Laurent, addressing the future of photojournalism and the role of social media

  • A conversation with Scott Strazzante about Common Ground

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    The vast majority of my successful diptychs have come about when I just shoot without looking to match farm photos. Only two of the pairings were planned before hand. One was the aerial comparison and the other was shooting out of a second floor bedroom window in the Grabenhofer home to match a photo I had from the second floor of the Cagwin farmhouse. The rest happen when something I shoot on Cinnamon Court reminds me of a farm photo or I make an image that I really like and I pore through my farm negs looking for a match. I don’t really put much thought into the project as a whole when I am shooting at the subdivision. I photograph there like I do when I shoot any other assignment.

  • David Hobby – Conversation

    David Hobby – Conversation

    Conversation with David Hobby   David Alan Harvey: You are a force in the social media/blog world. You have hit it very big with Strobist. We both started out as newspaper photographers. David…

    via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/in-the-spotlight/2013/08/david-hobby-conversation/

    I don’t see it is a job so as much as a religion. And you don’t know that until maybe you leave newspapers and you realize how much of a religion that process was. But, I still have that dream like I am on an assignment, this is, you know, six years later, and I can’t get the camera out of the trunk fast enough. My hands just aren’t working and I realize that I am right back in newspaper photography. I said “we” about the Baltimore Sun for four or five years after I left.

  • Interview: Asim Rafiqui’s “Bagram: The Other Guantanamo”

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    The project features portraits and interviews with family members of the nearly 40 Pakistani men still detained at the Bagram base in Afghanistan and is presented in a highly organized and internally referenced website that links the families, prisoners and their stories

  • John Gossage Interview – Part 1

    John Gossage Interview – Part 1

    John Gossage: I was just coming over to answer the phone, and I was thinking, “What if the interview is just all lies?” Jonathan Blaustein: Lies? I’m just interested in things tha…

    via A Photo Editor: https://aphotoeditor.com/2013/09/23/john-gossage-interview-part-1/

    Let’s just say, in the US, though of course it’s a world-wide community of photography, there are 25 serious voices working today that will be kept. It’s true, there’s a lot more to be disposed of now.

    Look at photo books. Someone said we’re in “the renaissance of photo books and the dark ages of content.” That was the quote

  • Peter Turnley: French Kiss – A Love Letter to Paris

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    In his new book “French Kiss – A Love Letter to Paris,” he reveals moments of poetry and beauty he witnessed as a street photographer during the past 40 years of documenting the city of love, which is his adopted home.

  • L’entretien. Prix Bayeux : James Nachtwey débarque en Normandie

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    The first bit of advice I would give to someone who aspires to cover wars is not to do it. Are you really sure you know what you’re getting into? Have you thought deeply about the potential consequences for yourself and for your family? Why don’t you find something else to do that would make a difference but not subject yourself to danger and hardship. 

  • Alan Chin: Another Home 8,000 Miles Away

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    Alan Chin is currently running a Kickstarter campaign for his new project Toishan, China: Another Home 8,000 Miles Away. Chin’s project will take him back to his family’s home in the Toishan region of China, an area that is undergoing rapid development since his first visit in 1989.