David Schonauer
Motionographer Tuesday March 17, 2015
“Unlike most news apps I use, it doesn’t suck.” So says Justin Cone at Motiongrapher, describing the Reuters TV app, which, he
notes, features “elegant, real-time graphics and news in custom-sized feeds that you can easily read on the subway.” Cone went in search of the man behind the app’s design, Marcus
Eckert, who in an engaging interview tells the story behind its development. He also has encouraging words about the accessibility of coding and tools for motion designers. Read the full Story >>
Women’s Wear Daily Wednesday June 19, 2013
Italian photographer Piero Cristaldi’s specialty was runway fashion photography: Cristaldi, who died of a heart attack in Milan on Saturday, started taking photos at age 17. Before joining
WWD as a fixture runway photographer two years ago, he worked for 26 years for Gap Japan fashion magazine. “My colleagues called me the marathon man because of the constant trips around the
world I subjected myself to,” Cristaldi said in a recent interview. “But that was my world, with all the discoveries that it presented me with on the way.” Read the full Story >>
PDNPULSE Wednesday August 20, 2014
Venezuelan photographer Alejandro Cegarra has been awarded the 2014 Ian Parry Scholarship for his project “The Other Side of the Tower,” notes PDN Pulse. The series looks at people living
illegally in the Tower of David, an unfinished skyscraper in Caracas. Cegarra will receive £3,500 (approximately $5,450) and equipment from Canon and is named to the shortlist of photographers
selected for World Press Photo’s Joop Swart Masterclass. Time LightBox has a portfolio and interview with Cegarra. Read the full Story >>
The New York Times Thursday January 8, 2015
Oscar shortlisted documentary Virungafocuses on the rangers who manage the titular Congo national park—a land of mountain gorillas surrounded by armed rebel groups and besieged by
poachers. In an interview with the NewYork Times, it’s director, Orlando von Einsiedel, talks about the challenges of telling a multilayered story in a war zone and working with animals.
“There were little moments when they destroyed a lot of equipment,” he says of the gorillas. But there were also laughs: “It was very tense,” says the filmmaker, “and we
would be there and suddenly a gorilla would just let go with the loudest fart.” Read the full Story >>
Vimeo Tuesday February 21, 2017
You say you want some straight-up facts and insightful human discourse? Don’t look to the Trump White House, for sure. And, notes Vancouver-based filmmaker Lewis Bennett, you might want to skip your family and friends. His new documentary, Say Something Intelligent, pokes fun at our ability
to do just that. The film is an assemblage of home movies that his father shot in the 1990s. While watching the videos, Bennett noticed that his father kept uttering the same phrase, “Say
something intelligent.” “[T]hose three words are etched into my memory,” Bennett
says in a Vimeo interview. Read the full Story >>
DAZED Digital Thursday February 14, 2013
Emerging photographer Tyler Udall has already made an impact in American photography, notes Le Journal de la Photographie: In the past two
years he’s shot for several fashion and art mags and published a book, following an earlier career as senior fashion editor at Dazed & Confused magazine. Dazed Digital features an interview
with Udall on the occasion of his new exhibition at London’s Little Black Gallery, which brings together a range of the black-and-white and color work that has been compared with that of Ryan
McGinley and Juergen Teller Read the full Story >>
Motionographer Friday January 22, 2016
Meanwhile, at Motiongrapher you’ll meet Liz Baker, whose book Animated
Storytelling is a step-by-step guide that takes aspiring storytellers from raw idea to final render to distribution. The book attempts to demystify both motion graphics and traditional,
character-based animation, notes the website. Why tell stories through animation? “A storyteller should use animation because it’s limitless – both in its ability to achieve
the fantastical and in its fantastic ability to charm an audience.” Baker says in an interview. Read the full Story >>
DIYPhotography Thursday September 17, 2020
JIP (Japanese Industrial Partners), the company that earlier this year announced it would take over the imaging division from Olympus, has affirmed its commitment to the
brand and the Micro Four Thirds format, notes DIY Photography. Shinichi Inagaki, managing director at JIP, noted in a recent interview that JIP is not
planning to sell Olympus or to piece it out for its intellectual property. He said there will be no withdrawal from the market and that JIP will continue to support existing Olympus systems. He also
said the brand would be shifting from a primarily consumer-oriented market towards a more business-oriented one, with a focus on video. Read the full Story >>
HDVideoPro Wednesday October 1, 2014
The buzz over director David Fincher’s latest feature, Gone Girl, has been building since its debut at the New York Film Festival. Based on the novel by Gillian Flynn, the movie marks
another collaboration between Fincher and cinematographer Jeff Cronenweth, who also worked on Fincher films and shot The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo with the RED Epic camera. In an interview
with HDVideo Pro, Cronenweth explains why and how the new film was shot with a 6K RED Epic Dragon. Read the full Story >>
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Monday November 11, 2013
Does gender play a role in how women photographers work? The answer is yes, say photojournalists Maggie Steber and Lynn Johnson in an interview at National Geographic. Steber and Johnson, who have
work included in the National Geographic exhibition “Women of Vision,” provide insight into how being women has shaped their work.
“It didn’t matter what the gender landscape was wherever I was working—the story had to lead,” says Johnson. “Your anger, your past, whatever you carry inside cannot
lead.” Read the full Story >>
American Society of Magazine Editors Wednesday April 4, 2012
The American Society of Magazine Editors has announced the finalists of the 2012 National Magazine Awards. In the overall Photography category, the finalists are GQ; Interview; National
Geographic; Virginia Quarterly Review; and Vogue. Finalists in the News and Documentary Category include Harper’s for Richard Ross’s photo essay on juvenile
prisoners. In fact, the venerable mag known for its long-form journalism and text-heavy essays received two nominations in the News and Documentary photo category. Read the full Story >>
British Journal of Photography Tuesday August 9, 2016
We have previously spotlighted Crofton
Black and Edmund Clark’s book Negative Publicity, a study of the global
“extraordinary renditions” program led by the United States as part of the war on terror. Winner of the Rencontres d'Arles 2016 Photo-Text Book Award, the book is now the subject of an
exhibition at the Imperial War Museum in London. The British Journal of Photography recently talked with Clark and Black about the project in a probing interview. Read the full Story >>
DIYPhotography Friday March 10, 2023
In an interview with PhotoTrend, Sigma CEO Kazuto Yamaki says that the company has no plans to develop new Micro Four Thirds lenses, noting that “demand for this format is decreasing very sharply.” This is the first manufacturer to publicly come out and abandon the Micro Four Thirds format that Panasonic and OM System both appear to be pushing with vigor, notes DIY Photography. The news doesn’t come as much of a surprise, given that Sigma hasn’t actually developed MFT lenses before—only APS-C lenses with MFT mounts.
Read the full Story >>
AnOther Monday January 25, 2016
“Photography is much like writing to me,” says photojournalist Paolo Pellegrin in an interview at AnOther. “It’s a voice. The voice of the photographer and the voice
that’s so informed by what we encounter.” Pellegrin talks about his latest series, which focuses on Libyan refugees making sea crossings to Europe, as well as his influences. “I
studied history of art so there’s a strong grounding of that in my work,” he says. “I also love…cinema. I love [Andrei] Tarkovsky, but I also love movies from
Hollywood’s Golden Era.” Read the full Story >>
DIYPhotography Wednesday June 26, 2019
Nikon has been making some
mirrorless news recently. PetaPixel reports that the company will be making a a “mid-level” Z mirrorless camera that may cost as little as $900. But there’s more: Nikon President Toshikazu
Umatate confirmed the company’s plans to launch a higher-end camera in an interview with Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, a Japanese manufacturing newspaper. This will be a flagship mirrorless model,
equivalent to Nikon’s flagship D5 DSLR. DIY Photography has more. Read the full Story >>
LensCulture Wednesday October 19, 2016
Recently at Dispatches From Latin America we 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 an interview. Read the full Story >>
PDN Tuesday April 2, 2019
Actress Brie Larson has
dazzled audiences with her turn as “Captain Marvel,” the first in the Marvel cinematic franchise to feature a female superhero as the lead. Fittingly, notes PDN, Larson is using her press
junket for the blockbuster movie to advocate for women photographers and for reporters and photographers of color. An interview with Larson on the fashion site Who What Wear notes that the actress
“hand-selected local female photographers to do shoots at different stops” on the tour. Read the full Story >>
Art Territory Thursday March 3, 2016
Daniel Wolf re-shaped the landscape of fine-art photography in the 1970s and 1980s as a collector and dealer. Most importantly, notes L’Oeil de la Photographie, Wolf
originated the Getty Museum’s acquisition of some of the most important photographic collections in the world, including that of Sam Wagstaff. (The Getty spotlights the Wagstaff collection this month.) Writer Una Meistere has interviewed Wolf at Art Territory about his history with photography and how he views
the role of the collector in the modern world. Read the full Story >>
Photo Attorney Monday December 9, 2013
The average cost to litigate a small copyright infringement lawsuit can easily climb to hundreds of thousands of dollars, making it impractical for most independent creators and small businesses to
protect their work, which is why the U.S. Copyright Office conducted a new study to develop alternatives ways for creators to pursue infringement claims. Among the recommendations: a centralized
Copyright Office tribunal that would administer proceedings through online and teleconferencing facilities. The Photo Attorney blog explores the report in an interview with Jacqueline Charlesworth,
General Counsel of the U.S. Copyright Office. Read the full Story >>
Nerve Monday August 31, 2015
Photographer-turned-filmmaker Larry Clark can be depended on to stir up the culture: 20 years ago, his movie Kids introduced the world to Chloe Sevigny, the term “virgin surgeon”
and the idea that kids were killing kids with sex, Most recently, Clark has contributed to Destricted, a series of uncensored short films about sex. “It’s just kind of my
territory,” he tells Nerve in an interview. “It started back when I was a kid in Tulsa and started making photographs of my friends.” Read the full Story >>
