Category: Interviews

  • Leslie Baldwin

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    Link: 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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    Link: 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…

  • Live Through This by Tony Fouhse & Stephanie MacDonald

    Live Through This by Tony Fouhse & Stephanie MacDonald

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    Lån med betalingsanmerkning – Slik blir du kredittverdig – lpvmagazine.com Lån med betalingsanmerkning – Slik blir du kredittverdig En betalingsanmerkningRead More via lpvmagazine.com: http://lpvmagazine.com/2013/04/live-through-this-by-tony-fouhse-stephanie-macdonald/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LaPuraVida+%28LPV+Magazine%29 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…

  • Interview and Portfolios: Evan Baden

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    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;…

  • A rambling conversation with Greg Gorman

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    Link: 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…

  • Chris Pichler: The book maverick by Jeff Dunas

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    Link: 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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    Link: 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…

  • Maggie Steber: Seeing Past the Veil, Part 2

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    Link: 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

  • 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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    Link: “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

  • Grazia Neri: The Lady of Photography

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    Link: 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…

  • A conversation with Scott Strazzante about Common Ground

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    Link: 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…

  • David Hobby – Conversation

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    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…

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

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    Link: 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

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

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    Link: 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.

  • John Gossage Interview – Part 1

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    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…

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

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    Link: 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…

  • Alan Chin: Another Home 8,000 Miles Away

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    Link: 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.

  • Outtakes: Mike Smith

    Outtakes: Mike Smith

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    Outtakes: Mike Smith Outtakes is a series of interviews with contemporary photographers who have been asked to share alternate versions of some of their most me… Link: http://www.fototazo.com/2013/10/outtakes-mike-smith-by-joshua-dudley.html Outtakes comes from photographer Joshua Dudley Greer and begins today with images from Mike Smith.

  • Michael Walker-Toye: Opening up Access

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    Link: Londoners are suspicious at the best of times, so I don’t sneak around. I observed years ago that tourists are unashamedly pushy when they want to take a photograph, so I try to be bold. Move in, lock in focus, shoot and move on. If I’m caught I’ll smile or wave, but I still…

  • John Vink: ‘The photographer is not a hero’

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    Link: Based out of Cambodia for the past 13 years, Belgium born photojournalist John Vink, member of the prestigious Magnum Photos is known for his long-term photographic ventures. His works, conducted in different corners of the world, are instrumental in giving an insight into the daily struggles of humankind for shelter, water or simply, survival.…