David Schonauer
nofilmschool Tuesday June 25, 2013
Film financing is moving online, and the new Slated platform might be leading the way: Launched earlier this year at Sundance, Slated has
aggregated film investors representing hundreds of millions of dollars and has forged partnerships with some of the world’s leading financing, sales, and film companies, notes NoFilmSchool,
which features an interview with Slated co-founder and CEO Duncan Cork. “We designed it in order to ensure that the people who are signing up are the people they say they are,” says
Cork. Read the full Story >>
DP Review Wednesday June 18, 2025
On 2024, Wired reported that 28 Years Later, the upcoming sequel to the classic zombie movie 28 Days, was being filmed using an iPhone 15 Pro Max. Now an IGN interview with the film's director, Danny Boyle, confirms that at least some parts of the new movie were shot with iPhones. One shooting rig held up to 20 iPhones to create what Boyle calls "basically a poor man’s bullet time,” notes DP Review. Boyle said he decided to use iPhones as a callback to the vibe of the original film.
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BuzzFeed Thursday December 24, 2020
We recently spotlighted a viral photo taken on Thanksgiving by Houston-based photographer Go Nakamura at Houston’s United Memorial Medical Center. The image, shot for Getty Images, showed Dr. Joseph Varon comforting a patient in the hospital’s covid-19 intensive care unit. Now BuzzFeed has an interview with Nakamura about his work there. "When I am in the COVID ward, adrenaline is pumping, and I can hold it together,” he says. “When I get out of the hospital and look at the pictures … that's when it hits me so hard.” Read the full Story >>
npr Wednesday July 19, 2017
“When he died in 2013,
my dad, Howie, was 58. My mom, Laurel, was 59 when she died one day shy of the anniversary of my dad's death. But what was most notable was how those final months were filled with love and
life.” So notes photojournalist Nancy Borowick in an interview at NRP. When Borowick’s parents were diagnosed with stage-four cancer, she decided to do what she knew best and documented
their lives. Her work is collected in the new book Nancy Borowick: The Family Imprint: A
Daughter's Portrait of Love and Loss. Read the full Story >>
By
Peggy Roalf Wednesday January 3, 2024
Having recently streamed The Andy Warhol Diaries on Netflix, I was struck by one of those out-of-the-blue questions I sometimes get waiting for the F train: What if Andy had an iPhone?
The iconic American Pop artist, who anticipated the issues, effects, and pace of our current digital age, styled himself a machine; made duplication and repetition key features of his output, … Read the full Story >>
British Journal of Photography Thursday June 12, 2014
London is currently hip-deep in a series of events celebrating the photo book, including a talk by
photographer Martin Parr at the Tate Modern to mark the publication of The Photobook: A History,
Volume III, the final volume of his epic review of the art. To mark the occasion, the British Journal of Photography features a recent interview with Parr at his home in Bristol. There, he and
writer Colin Pantall delve inside Parr’s unparalleled photo book collection. Read the full Story >>
THE VERGE Tuesday January 7, 2014
Robert Greenwald has made films for more than three decades; recently, that’s meant small-budget guerrilla documentaries promoted via social media. His most recent film, Unmanned:
America’s Drone Wars, investigates US drone policy and includes testimony from drone-attack survivors. The Verge has a trailer for the new doc and an interview with Greenwald about the
making of the film. “The drones were another example to me of a belief that there is a silver bullet” against our enemies, says the filmmaker. Read the full Story >>
ADWEEK Friday January 8, 2016
Fans of the 1970s Brit sitcom Fawlty Towers will rejoice to learn that tetchy hotel owner Basil Fawlty has returned. Monty Python alum John Cleese invented the incompetent but supercilious
character and now has resurrected him for the first time ever in TV spot for the optical company Specsavers. The ad’s script pays homage to a famous Fawlty Towers scene, while director
Tim Bullock propels the piece toward its twist ending. There’s also a behind-the-scenes video about the making of the ad and an interview with Cleese. Read the full Story >>
BuzzFeed Wednesday January 25, 2017
Photographer João Pina’s images of life in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro and the impact of gangs in the city, shot over the past nine years,
“stands out for its elegant juxtapositions of violence and everyday life,” notes BuzzFeed. “It is a portrait of my experience of a city that is beautiful, but has been ignored in
many aspects,” Pina says, describing his project in an interview. “I am going to the ignored aspects, turning my lens on that. Life has a different meaning in those
areas.” Read the full Story >>
The Creators Project Monday February 6, 2017
It took just 11 hours for
Beyoncé’s maternity photo to become the most-liked Instagram image of all time last week. Shot by LA- and New York-based artist Awol Erizku, the photo was just part of a larger set also
released in which Beyonce poses underwater and references classical artworks like Botticelli's “The Birth of Venus,” notes The Creators Project. "I make things that I want to see in the
world," Erizku told TCP in a 2015 interview. "I’m deeply interested in color and composition.” Read the full Story >>
npr Thursday July 12, 2012
As Jean Francois Leroy points out in his interview, much of the news from the past year has been about economics—not an inherently photographic subject. That’s why “The Poverty Line,” a project by photographer Stefen Chow and economist Lin Hui-Yi, is so intriguing. The project focuses graphically on the food
choices of people around the globe living at the poverty line. For instance, in the U.S., the options might be one lobster, two pomegranates, or 39 Oreos. In Thailand, three fried fish. In Brazil, a
piece of watermelon. Enlightening. Read the full Story >>
Chicago Art Institute Wednesday November 23, 2022
The Art Institute of Chicago has been exhibiting photography since 1900 and collecting it since 1949. The exhibition “A Field Guide to Photography and the Media” (through April 10, 2023) celebrates that long (if rather unsung) history by spotlighting the museum’s collection. Divided into eight sections, the presentation features more than 150 works that cut across time, space, and genre. There’s also an accompanying book—the first book about photography published by the museum. See also: this interview with curator Elizabeth Siegel.
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CBS News Wednesday March 5, 2025
The world only knew him as “Caesar”—a photographer whose harrowing images, smuggled out of Syria at great risk, offered an unfiltered glimpse into torture and mass killing inside former President Bashar al-Assad's prisons. Caesar remained a faceless witness for over a decade, but the dictator's collapse in December allowed him to step forward, notes CBS News. In a televised interview with Al Jazeera in February, he revealed himself as Farid al-Madhhan, the (former) head of the forensic evidence department at the military police in Damascus.
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nofilmschool Friday August 2, 2013
Because of its very nature, guerrilla filmmaking requires a lot from its practitioners. The lack of money, crew, and gear sometimes means that filmmakers must put themselves in compromising
situations, as Jon Reiss did when he made his recent Kickstarter documentary about indigenous street art around the world, Bomb It 2. “I’ve done a fair amount of crazy things, climbing into rail and subway yards, into sewers
in São Paulo and Hong Kong,” he tells NoFilmSchool in an engaging interview. Another time, he faced down fire ants. Read the full Story >>
PDN Friday November 23, 2018
Photographer Shahidul Alam
walked out of the Dhakha, Bangladesh, jail on Tuesday evening, 108 days after he was dragged from his home by police and five days after a high court granted him bail. Alam, the founder of the photo
agencies Drik and Native and the renowned Pathshala South Media Institute, was taken from his home by plainclothes police on August 6, shortly after he gave an interview to Al Jazeera about student
protests in Dhaka. His imprisonment was widely criticized by photographic and journalism organizations around the world. Read the full Story >>
Society of Environmental Journalists Thursday August 30, 2018
Dennis Dimick began his career
as a photographer and photo editor at several newspapers before going to work at National Geographic, where over the next 35 years he rose to become executive editor for environment. In an interview
with the Society of Environmental Journalists, Dimick talks about his career and how the SEJ hopes to ignite interest in a new generation of visual documentarians who can use scientific bases to
understand how the planet’s big biochemical cycles. See also: This presentation at the 2018 Planet Forward
Summit at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Read the full Story >>
British Journal of Photography Tuesday October 2, 2012
Last week we spotlighted a probing essay by curator and writer Mary Panzer focusing on
whether Magnum Photos—and photojournalism in general—had a relevant place in the modern world. The agency's CEO, Giorgio Psacharopulo, certainly thinks they do. In a recent interview with
the British Journal of Photography, Psacharopulo talks about pushing Magnum’s online activities … and describes how he manages a photo entity whose board of directors he describes as
“kind of a representative parliament.” Read the full Story >>
By
Peggy Roalf Thursday October 17, 2019
Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back opens this weekend at The Art Institute of Chicago. More than 400 works offer a new view of the iconic American Pop artist, not only illuminating the breadth, depth, and interconnectedness of Warhol’s production across the entirety of his career but also highlighting the ways that he anticipated the issues, effects, and pace of our current … Read the full Story >>
CTV News Thursday July 27, 2023
The Toronto Zoo is advising its visitors to avoid showing videos and photos on their cellphones to its gorillas because they distract the apes, reports CTV News. "We just want the gorillas to be able to be gorillas," Hollie Ross, behavioral husbandry supervisor at the zoo, said in an interview. Ross said one of the zoo’s gorillas, Nassir, has become enthralled with videos visitors are showing him. “I think, mostly, he was seeing videos of other animals. But, I think what is really important is that he's able to just hang out with his brother and be a gorilla,” Ross says.
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KEN WEINGART Friday March 27, 2015
Fine-art photographer Arne Svenson has earned a reputation for work that surprises viewers—and his neighbors, one of whom sued him after learning that Svenson had been photographing his high
rise without permission. (Svenson won the legal battle.) For another series, he created portraits of forensic
facial reconstruction sculptures. His latest project, “Workers,” goes on view on April 9 at New York’s Julie Saul Gallery. Recently, photographer and blogger Ken Weigart spoke with Svenson to learn the stories behind the
challenging imagery. Read the full Story >>
