David Schonauer
DEADLINE HOLLYWOOD Friday September 14, 2012
On Tuesday we noted that the commercial success of the anti-Obama documentary 2016 Obama’s America might launch a wave of right-wing nonfiction films. Now Deadline Hollywood reports
that Dinesh D’Souza, co-director of the documentary, is answering criticism of the film from the Obama-Biden campaign. “I welcome Obama’s critique of the film. He has probably
figured out that he cannot ignore it any longer,” says D’Souza in an interview. The film’s producers are looking for a TV network to air it before November. Read the full Story >>
GIZMODO Wednesday March 3, 2021
It’s not easy to find images of ICE detection centers, many of which are privately owned, but, notes Gizmodo, David Taylor, an artist and professor at the University of Arizona, thought of an innovative way to get around the facilities’ iron grip on cameras: He decided to use a drone to photograph the ICE detention centers from the sky. “The ICE detention centers located throughout the United States are a manifestation of border space,” Taylor tells Gizmodo in an interview and slideshow. Read the full Story >>
DIYPhotography Wednesday March 22, 2023
Canon’s EOS M APS-C mirrorless camera system has been fading away for a few years, with little-to-no updates and few comments from Canon about its future. And last month, when Canon announced the EOS R50, many saw it as the final nail in the coffin for the M system. But, notes DIY Photography, in a recent interview at the CP+ 2023 event, Canon execs stated that the EOS M system is not dead, as far as they were concerned. The M system is still a very big income generator for Canon: In Asian countries, the Canon M50 and its Mark II successor have been Canon’s top-selling cameras.
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VICE Wednesday January 27, 2016
Lindsay Dye is a cam girl and an artist. As a cam girl, she performs for anonymous clients online. As an artist, Dye takes screenshots of other cam girls to create clothing and prints with messages
about copyright infringement. “I'm past being frustrated with being naked on the Internet. Instead, I want the circularity of my projects to work in my favor,” she says in this interview. She also receives many gifts from her clients.
Vice features photographer Elizabeth Herring’s still-life assemblages of Dye’s varied donations. Read the full Story >>
nofilmschool Wednesday July 24, 2013
As we noted in item one, among Filmmaker mag’s 25 new faces for 2013 is Rodrigo Reyes, whose Purgatorio: A Journey Into the Heart of the Border premiered to sold-out crowds at the recent
LA Film Festival. The film is at the vanguard of genre-pushing documentary work, notes NoFilmSchool, which features an interview with Reyes. “Most of us have a tendency to…just get as
close to the action as possible,” he says. “I decided what I needed was to force myself to compose a shot and make a commitment to the point of view in the scene.” Read the full Story >>
Production Paradise Thursday August 1, 2019
A reminder that the final
deadline for entering the Latin American Fotografía 8 competition is August 6. You can find details about eligibility and how to enter at the AI-AP website. Meanwhile you can find out all about the competition in an interview with contest director Mark Heflin at the website of Production Paradise, an international
directory and showcase platform for photographers. “Our ongoing goal is to introduce Latin American artists to North American creatives and art buyers, and vice versa,” notes
Heflin. Read the full Story >>
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Tuesday February 26, 2019
“Thirty years should
make for a huge body of work. But truly, I only feel like my work in the last five to 10 years is work I look back on and say, OK, there’s a picture I feel good about.” So says Bill Ingalls, who for the past three decades has been NASA’s senior contract photographer, in an interview at National
Geographic. Ingalls, a Pittsburgh native who studied visual communications and English at Waynesburg University, got the job after landing a NASA internship … and then hounding the agency for a
job. Read the full Story >>
Steidl Verlag Wednesday June 7, 2023
In the spring of 1976, photographer Mary Ellen Mark and her friend Karen Folger Jacobs, a writer and mental health professional, embarked on a trip to a women’s mental institution: Oregon State Hospital’s Ward 81. There, notes AnOther, they stayed for a month, photographing and interviewing the women confined within its walls. The result was the landmark 1979 book Ward 81. Now Steidl is releasing Ward 81: Voices, an expanded edition of that includes previously unpublished photographs and interview excerpts.
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LensCulture Wednesday November 2, 2016
We recently spotlighted photographer Fabricio Brambatti’s series “My Sweet Paradise,” which was named a winner of LensCulture’s 2016 Street
Photography Awards. The series is a collection of portraits featuring the drug addicted, the injured, the homeless and the hopeless Brambatti has encountered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
“Paradise seems very far away for these people. But the truth is that every human being is in pursuit of happiness,” he says in a follow-up interview. Read the full Story >>
Poynter. Wednesday September 4, 2013
Last month we spotlighted the Kickstarter campaign for Frame By Frame, a documentary that
features four Afghan photojournalists who talk about how their work in the war-torn country has changed since the Taliban were pushed from power. The campaign originally aimed to raise $40,000, but
Poynter reports that as of late last week the creators of the film had raised more than $70,000. Production of the documentary began last year, and the Kickstarter money will enable Mo Scarpelli and
Alexandria Bombach to return to Kabul this fall and finish the documentary. Go here for an interview with Scarpelli.
Read the full Story >>
Motionographer Wednesday January 28, 2015
What is originality? Does it even exist? If so, how can creatives be original? Those are the questions, notes Motionographer, that Toronto-based designer Andrew Vucko explores in Original, an animated short film that epitomizes the flat design movement that has become ubiquitous across the Internet. Drawn from the thoughts of people like Pablo Picasso,
Woodrow, Wilson, and Jean Luc Godard, the piece is a meditation on novelty and perfection that ends with some succinct advice. “I wanted to develop a piece that I could fully immerse myself in,
but I had trouble finding a unique enough idea that I could commit to,” Vucko says in an interview. Read the full Story >>
Verve Thursday December 13, 2012
We look at the remarkable blog Verve Photo almost every day, but today is milestone because Verve is featuring its 700th photographer—an interview with documentary multimedia
producer Katrina Cizek. The blog, which spotlights what it calls “a new breed of documentary photographers,” is the creation of veteran photographer Geoffrey Hiller, who is nothing if not
full of verve. “Some people are content to sit back and watch the world change. I'm not one of them,” he notes on his own web
page. Read the full Story >>
branding in asia Monday April 28, 2025
“AI isn’t just advancing—it’s bulldozing its way into the visual industry. When the hype first started, I was amazed by what AI could do and excited about its creative potential. I still am! AI enables creatives to push visual boundaries.” So says Dr. Rebecca Swift, Senior Vice President of Creative at Getty Images, in an interview at Branding in Asia. For Dr. Swift, the path forward isn’t about choosing between AI and photography, but understanding how the two can coexist to create more meaningful content, notes the website.
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PHotoEspaña Wednesday June 12, 2013
Through July 28, the annual PHotoEspaña photography festival in Madrid will be featuring an array of international work. (Go here for an overview of the festival and an interview with its director, Claude Bussac.) This year the festival will include an
exhibition of contemporary photography from 14 Latin American photographers at the Tabacalera Espacio de Promoción del Arte in Madrid, an arts space that was once a tobacco factory. The
exhibition gathers together work from the Transatlántica portfolio reviews held in Costa Rica and Mexico. Read the full Story >>
PetaPixel Thursday July 22, 2021
Fujifilm is most widely associated with photography, but the pandemic and the weakening photo industry overall has changed that. Imaging solutions now makes up just 13 percent of the company’s revenue, and, notes PetaPixel, the new CEO is investing heavily in pharmaceuticals as the brand continues to pivot. Teiichi Goto took over as CEO of the Fujifilm Corporation on June 29 and since then the company has made its pivot to healthcare obvious through two major financial decisions. Goto said in a recent interview that he would not turn away from photography, however. Read the full Story >>
MY MODERN MET Monday July 15, 2019
Photographer and filmmaker Sue
Flood has spent a decade traveling to Antarctica to capture emperor penguins, a species that is facing critical challenges now because of climate change. Her book Emperor: The Perfect Penguin, chronicles the daily lives of the birds as they carve out lives
in the harsh habitat, notes My Modern Met. “They are, quite simply, the most beautiful creature I’ve ever seen,” Flood says in an interview. “I particularly enjoy trying to
capture the wonderful relationship between the adults and chicks,” she adds. Read the full Story >>
Magnum Photos Wednesday October 26, 2016
“I work extremely intuitively. I wander, I respond,” says photographer Alex Webb in an interview at Magnum Photos’s new website. Webb recently released
the book La Calle: Photographs from Mexico, a
collection of work he began shooting in 1975. His early black-and-white images later gave way to color inspired by the light a street life of Mexico. “That very first time I walked across the
bridge into Mexico, I was startled and fascinated by this place so close geographically to the US, but so far culturally,” he says. Read the full Story >>
Magnum Photos Thursday October 13, 2016
“I work extremely intuitively. I wander, I respond,” says photographer Alex Webb in an interview at Magnum Photos’s new website. Webb recently released
the book La Calle: Photographs from Mexico, a
collection of work he began shooting in 1975. His early black-and-white images later gave way to color inspired by the light of street life in Mexico. “That very first time I walked across the
bridge into Mexico, I was startled and fascinated by this place so close geographically to the US, but so far culturally,” he says. Read the full Story >>
Art of the Title Thursday January 30, 2014
If you’ve seen HBO’s new series True Detective, you’ve probably taken note of its title sequence, the work of creative director Patrick Clair in collaboration with the Elastic production studio. The sequence evokes the poisoned wasteland of the Gulf Coast, where industry and old-time religion meet menacingly and two
lawmen, both emotionally damaged, hunt a serial killer. In an interview with Art of the Title, Clair explains how it was done. “Visually, we were inspired by photographic double
exposures,” he says. Read the full Story >>
DAZED Wednesday December 6, 2017
David LaChapelle’s
color-blasted and surrealist photographs of Pamela Anderson, Paris Hilton, Amy Winehouse, Tupac Shakur, Hillary Clinton and other icons redefined the magazine portrait, notes Dazed, which spotlights
the final two of a five-volume anthology of books looking back at his career. Lost + Found and Good News feature his celebrity photos and fine-art work.
“I never did it for fame. Never did it to shock people,” LaChapelle reflects in a wide-ranging interview. Read the full Story >>
