Letting Photos Reveal Themselves in Haiti Rather than parachute in for quick assignments covering chaos, Thomas Kern worked away from the pack, taking his time to find moments and scenes of universal appeal. via Lens Blog: https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/04/06/in-haiti-taking-time-to-take-pictures-thomas-kern/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs®ion=Body&_r=0 Distance and finances would keep Thomas Kern from dropping everything and dashing to Haiti to cover the latest…
Thomas Kern’s Haiti Thomas Kern’s Haitian images are first of all reactive. The German-speaking Swiss photographer, aged 51, traveled to the island for the first time in 1997, on assignment from Du magazine. Shortly thereafter, he moved to the States. He quickly felt uncomfortable with the stereotypes reported by the American media on the permanent…
Interview with Thomas Kern: “A Drug Free Land” (2011) Zabriskie Point, Death Valley, California, 2003 Thomas Kern – Interview A DRUG FREE LAND By Christian Reister, 2011, originally published by Seconds2Real Q: Thomas, tell us a little about your photographic career. TK: I became fascinated by ph via AMERICAN SUBURB X: http://www.americansuburbx.com/2011/03/interview-thomas-kern-drug-free-land.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Americansuburb+%28AMERICANSUBURBX%29 The photographs I…
