David Schonauer
AnOther Wednesday May 11, 2016
Egyptian photographer Laura El-Tantawy’s book Shadow of the Pyramids, which has earned her a nomination for this year’s prestigious Deutsche Börse Prize, represents “a new kind of visual storytelling, weaving parallel
narratives of selfhood and nation,” notes the AnOther blog. The book focuses on events in Cairo’s Tahrir Square during the 2011 Egyptian revolution. “I don’t believe in
neutrality in photography,” says Tantawy in an interview. The Deutsche Borse Prize winner will be announced on June 2. Read the full Story >>
THE VERGE Friday November 23, 2012
On the set of Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, where historical accuracy was considered sacrosanct, sound designer Ben Burtt might have faced the most challenging job of all: creating
sounds for an era that history has left silent. Nonetheless, Burtt still strove for the highest authenticity, as he explains in a recent interview with SoundWorks Collection. Such as: spending hours
at the White House recording sounds from three clocks and several mahogany doors that have survived since the Lincoln administration … and tracking down the pocket watch that Lincoln is
believed to have worn on the night of his assassination. The Verge has the story. Meanwhile, NoFilmSchool looks into the sound design of The Life of
Pi. Read the full Story >>
The New York Times Tuesday October 22, 2013
Robert Capa—born 100 years ago today—was a pivotal figure in photojournalism. In recent years, however, accusations that he set up one of his most famous images, “Falling
Soldier,” from the Spanish Civil War, have tarred his reputation, notes the NY Times. Capa, who was killed while covering the French Indochina War in 1954, has not been able to defend
himself—until now. The International Center of Photography has released a recently discovered October 1947 radio interview in which Capa describes what happened when the photo was taken.
Read the full Story >>
LENSCRATCH Wednesday April 2, 2014
Though he is only 19 years old, Gutemalan photographer Alejandro Medina’s work is earning rave reviews for its maturity. His first show was in the summer of 2010, at the impressive GuateFoto
photography festival, making him one of the youngest artists ever to exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in Guatemala. His photographs have also been seen in New York City’s Photoville event.
“In the last few years I have seen a growth in the art industry here in Guatemala. There is an art presence that is slowly manifesting itself and expanding, and therefore accepted by the
people,” he tells Argentinian photographer Eleonora Ronconi in an interview at Lenscratch. FotoVisura has more of his photography. Read the full Story >>
international documentary association Tuesday January 5, 2016
Haskell Wexler, the influential cinematographer who won Oscars for his work on the 1966 film Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and the 1976 Woody Guthrie biopic Bound for Glory, died
on Dec. 27 at age 93. Throughout his career, Wexler was noted for his versatile and intuitive approach, notes USA Today. As visual consultant on George Lucas' American
Graffiti, he hosed down streets to achieve a moody, reflective style, and he helped give Terence Malick's Days of Heaven a hazy, dreamlike atmosphere. See an interview with Wexler at MovieMaker. His friends and colleagues remember him at the International
Documentary Association. Read the full Story >>
feature shoot Tuesday February 2, 2016
Budapest-based artist Flora Borsi may not have the eye of the tiger, but she has the eyes of fish, doves, snakes and rabbits. Borsi’s series "Animeyed" came about when she took a selfie with her
dog and realized that the canine’s eye looked just like her own. “Borsi went all out in finding the perfect creatures for completing her photo series,” notes Feature Shoot. “My
favorite thing about photo manipulation is that I can create things that don’t exist,” Borsi told Create in an interview. Read the full Story >>
Art of the Title Thursday March 6, 2014
The stop-motion title sequence of The Lego Movie was built brick by brick, notes Art of the Title, which features an interview with creative director Brian Mah, VFX supervisor James Anderson,
and executive producer Kathy Kelehan of the Alma Mater design studio. The sequence features a side-scrolling flight through a series of brick-built dioramas
and vignettes that recreate scenes and settings from the very popular film. “We liked the idea of typography intertwined with the landscape around it,” says Mah. Read the full Story >>
By
Peggy Roalf Tuesday January 8, 2019
Year 2019 begins for me with a new take on the
long-running DART Q&A. That Proustean model has been advanced with the subject-based DART Interview, starting with Sergio Baradat. A long-time subscriber, subject, and if I may blow his cover, the brilliant mind behind the DJ tracks you've been grooving to
at The Party over the years. Sergio's multidisciplinary talents, his love art, … Read the full Story >>
By
Peggy Roalf Tuesday August 18, 2015
Brooklyn based photographer, Gabriela Herman, a DART subscriber and AP31 Selectee, has an intimate
connection to the recent Supreme Court ruling guaranteeing same-sex marriage nationwide. Her mother came out nearly 20 years ago, when she was in high school. Her parents separated, and
eventually Gabriela’s mother married her partner in one of Massachusetts’ first legal union. She writes, “It was a raw and … Read the full Story >>
L'Oeil de la Photographie Friday March 16, 2018
In January, curator Simon
Baker, former director of photography at the Tate in London, was appointed director of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, succeeding Jean-Luc Monterosso, director and founder of the
institution. He recently spoke to L’Oeil de la Photographie about his plans. “The context for photography, the reason for establishing the MEP has changed,” he says. “When
Jean-Luc created the MEP, photography was not broadly understood. It was almost a niche.” Read the full Story >>
The Huffington Post Friday August 19, 2016
“I knew from the outset that I wanted this exhibition to be an experience that you have to take very personally,” says International Center of Photography Curator In Residence Charlotte
Cotton, whose current exhibition, “Public, Private, Secret,” examines photography as a medium of
self-representation and surveillance. In an interview with MutualArt, featured at the Huffington Post, Cotton talks about the exhibition — the first at the ICP’s new location at 250 Bowery
in Manhattan — and photography as a “prescient medium.” Read the full Story >>
Edwynn Houk Gallery Thursday September 18, 2014
Photographer Mona Kuhn’s new series of nudes, “Acido Dorado,” was also made in the California desert: Set inside architect Robert Stone’s secluded palace in Joshua Tree
National Park, the images show the human body in a natural state, freed from cultural stereotypes, with her subjects’ postures mirroring the desert and man-made environments, notes New York
City’s Edwynn Houk Gallery, where the work is on view through October 18. See Elizabeth Avedon’s
blog for an interview with Kuhn. Read the full Story >>
The Huffington Post Tuesday October 23, 2012
In development for two years, Ayoub Qanir’s Koyakatsi is a “mind-bending marriage of grit, fantasy and style,” notes filmmaker Jason Silva at the
Huffington Post. Silva, a friend of the Qanir, talks with the director about the state-of-the-art sci-fi film, which explores the “potential break in the human continuum” as artificial
intelligence saturates the universe. “The primary objective was to work against the grain—building a story from the sciences up and not the other way around, as most films do,” says
Qanir. Read the full Story >>
DAZED Monday July 26, 2021
Photographer Scarlett Kapella’s Instagram page @therealbitchyoustrippin documents life inside famed Hollywood Boulevard strip joint Jumbo’s Clown Room, where, notes Dazed, she herself works shifts. Kapella began the project in 2018. “Because of my photography, I’ve gone beyond my Jumbo’s bubble into other pockets of the multifaceted LA stripper subculture,” Kapella says in an interview. “There are so many different scenes, from burlesque to kink, sex-worker activism to online stripper broadcasts.” Read the full Story >>
Tribeca Film Festival Wednesday April 6, 2016
How will virtual reality change journalism? Francesca Panetta, a special projects producer for the Guardian, has teamed up with co-producer Lindsay Poulton to create 6x9: An Immersive Experience
of Solitary Confinement, which will be featured this month at the Tribeca Festival Hub as part of the Tribeca Film Festival's
Storyscapes program. The project features interviews with prisoners and immerses viewers with sounds of prison spaces taken from footage shot by PBS for its Frontline documentary Solitary
Nation. Read about the VR experience at the festival website. Go to the New York Times for an interview about VR with
Tribeca programmer Loren Hammonds. Read the full Story >>
Image Source Tuesday January 28, 2014
“Fundamentally, everything has changed with the emergence of a visually sophisticated population that uses imagery as easily as conversation to exchange ideas and to express themselves,”
notes photo strategist Stephen Mayes in a thought-provoking interview with the blog of stock agency Image Source, where he was once creative director, before working at Getty Images and CEOing the VII
photo agency. Looking ahead, Mayes sees a future in which widespread visual literacy among consumers around the world allows commercial photographers to “really push the limits because anything
we do as professionals is being read in new ways.” Read the full Story >>
Vimeo Tuesday January 14, 2014
The film They Came at Night is the story of an abducted child soldier risking his life to flee from Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army in central Africa, after years of being
forced to fight. Based on true accounts, the 19-minute short is a compelling narrative—but its creators, Lindsay Branham and Andrew Ellis, state in the opening credits that it was not made for
you. Instead, it was made to be shown in central Africa to encourage communities to peacefully accept defectors from Kony’s army. NoFilmSchool features an interview with Branham and
Ellis. Read the full Story >>
theguardian Monday March 19, 2018
From the start of his
acclaimed photography career, Joel Meyerowitz “sought to explore the erotics of the street,” notes The Guardian. “The heat of the gazes between people, the charged mystery that
arises from capturing chance moments on the fly,” says the photographer in an interview. Meyerowitz looks back at his life and work in his latest book, Joel
Meyerowitz: Where
I Find Myself, a retrospective accompanied by an exhibition in Berlin. A lot of changed over the years, he notes, telling The Guardian that mobile photography has killed the sexiness of street
photography. The Cut has more. Read the full Story >>
VICE Wednesday January 29, 2014
Magnum photographer Olivia Arthur’s images of young women in Saudi Arabia were featured in the 2012 book Jeddah Diary. The
groundbreaking work, part of a wider project called “Middle Distance,” examines women’s lives along the fault lines between Europe and Asia and in societies often deemed closed
to the West, notes VICE, which features an interview with Arthur. “It's not a place where you can meet someone in the street and take photos,” she says. “As a woman I could be
invited into the home and could see these inner worlds.” Read the full Story >>
ideas tap Tuesday July 23, 2013
Approached merely as a job, documenting conflict in countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Tunisia, and Egypt is a matter of professional problem solving, notes Magnum photographer Moises
Saman in an interview at IdeasTap. “The hardest part is figuring out where to be and when to be there. A lot of it is pure luck and trusting your instincts,” says Saman, who offers a
number of insights into how he succeeds at his work. “Dealing with people, you have to be dignified, for example, by not jumping in front of them in an unsettling way,” he says.
“I’d recommend finding a specific story within the larger context of the conflict, something that you can really make your own.” Read the full Story >>
