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Fandor Friday February 10, 2017
Indiewire calls the documentary I Am Not Your Negro the most important Oscar nominee of the year. The film, from director Raoul Peck, uses the words of James Baldwin
— most memorably from his book-length essay on American cinema, The Devil Finds Work, as well as an unfinished manuscript on the deaths of Medgar Evars, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King
— to support a montage of images of Baldwin, past and present America, and racist scenes from Hollywood films, notes Fandor. “There cannot be a dream if it is based on a
lie,” Peck says in an interview. Read the full Story >>
WIRED Friday October 12, 2012
Director Rian Johnson hopes to get repeat customers for Looper … by offering a downloadable audio commentary for fans to listen to while watching his sci-fi film in theaters a
second time. The commentary supplies insights into the filmmaking and writing process. “It is totally different from the commentary track that will be on the Blu-ray/DVD, a bit more technical
and detailed,” says Johnson. If the time-travel plot of the film still has you confused, you can use Wired’s Looper timeline to help
figure it all out (but beware of spoilers). If you want to read more from Johnson about the making of the movie, IGC MAGAZINE has a behind-the-scenes interview. Read the full Story >>
CBS News Wednesday January 25, 2023
A photo in the news is back in the news: Disgraced former socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has claimed in a jailhouse interview that a decades-old photograph of Prince Andrew with Virginia Giuffre, who has accused him of sexual abuse, is “fake." Maxwell is imprisoned in Florida after her conviction and 20-year sentence for helping late financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse girls, notes CBS News. Giuffre has claimed she was trafficked by the pair to, among others, Andrew, King Charles III's younger brother. Now 39, Giuffre sued Andrew in a U.S. court, claiming they had sex in London when she was 17.
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Columbia Journalism Review Monday April 15, 2019
In the waning minutes of
Georgia’s recent legislative session, between votes on sex trafficking and organ procurement, a group of House Republican lawmakers filed
legislation to create a state Journalism Ethics Board to develop “canons of ethics” for journalists in Georgia. The bill would also grant interview subjects the right to request any
photographs, audio, and video recordings taken by a journalist, free of charge and at any time in the reporting process, notes the Columbia Journalism Review. The National Press Photographers Association has strongly criticized the bill. Read the full Story >>
The Huffington Post Tuesday April 9, 2013
Among the new trends in wedding photography: Sexed-up couples. Gone are the days when brides wore white for their wedding portraits; now they may wear nothing at all. Huffington Post’s
Wedding Trailblazers series, which focuses on wedding-industry professionals “doing creative new things,” features wedding photographer Matt Adcock and his team at Del Sol Photography, who specialize in what they call "Adam and Eve" photo shoots. “We started with the “Trash the Dress”
genre, [and then] it sort of grew by accident that brides would finish the shoot in the water and/or take their clothes off,” says Adcock. See also: Our recent interview with photog Roberto Falck. Read the full Story >>
LensCulture Friday June 22, 2018
Catherine Edelman launched her
eponymous Chicago gallery in 1987 with Nan Goldin’s “Ballad of Sexual Dependency” and has been a leader in the
fine-art world ever since, representing artists like Bruce Davidson, Michael Kenna, and Joel-Peter Witkin. In an interview at LensCulture, Edelman offers opinions on fine-art photography today:
“Right now I’m very interested in political work that has meaning—work where people who are affected by a crisis are doing the talking, as opposed to photographers going in, making
work, and then leaving,” she says. Read the full Story >>
DAZED Monday July 17, 2017
“There is a clear intent
in this project,” says South-African-based artist Zanele Muholi of her series “Somnyama Ngonyama,” on view at London’s Autograph ABP gallery through October 28. As Dazed notes in an interview with Muholi, she places emphasis on the
words “clear” and “intent.” The artist says the work centers of the idea of representation: “I’m confronting the politics of race and representation in South Africa
and beyond the South African borders in the most natural way I can – by presenting my own Black body.” Read the full Story >>
Interview Friday July 12, 2024
“It’s like you’re in my living room!” says Angela Hill, of IDEA books, the London bookstore she founded in 2009. Hill never planned to own a bookshop, notes Interview: She’s a fashion photographer who just loves collecting books and magazines. When a friend of a friend asked to buy her collection to sell in Paris, the grand idea of a bookstore materialized. From then on, Hill says, “it just got bigger.” Opened to the public in February, the cozy Soho bookshop features vintage books and more. "Tina Barney is a favorite photographer of mine,” says Hill.
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National Press Photographers Association Friday January 19, 2018
The National Press
Photographers Association has given its highest honor, the Joseph A. Sprague Memorial Award, to photojournalist David Burnett for a career stretching back 50 years. “He has worked to inspire
countless generations of photojournalists but also continues to give back. He's worked with Photographers for Hope to bring attention to homelessness,” notes the NPPA. “Adventure starts
and ends with being able to take your camera and go someplace,” Burnett says in an interview. Also receiving the award is Al Tompkins, a Poynter Institute faculty member and popular journalism teacher. Read the full Story >>
PetaPixel Monday October 28, 2024
In an interview with French publication Phototrend, Franck Bernard, the director of the imaging division of Fujifilm France, said that Fujifilm is the leader in the camera market that does not include full-frame cameras, possessing “around 40% market share.” While Fujifilm is a major player in the APS-C space with its X Series cameras, the company’s GFX medium-format system also comprises part of this 40%, explains PetaPixel: Of all Micro Four Thirds, APS-C, and medium-format digital cameras, plus some other niche offerings with other sensor sizes, Fujifilm has a significant piece of the total pie.
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Poynter. Wednesday September 26, 2012
When NFL officials signaled two different calls during Monday night’s football game between the Seattle Seahawks and the Green Bay Packers, Getty photographer Otto Greule was there to capture
it. Poynter has the story: “I was fortunate to be in the right spot,” Greule said in an interview. “When I saw the refs come over and sort of huddle around them, I thought, ‘Oh
good, the refs are here, keep shooting. Make sure you don’t cut off the refs’ hands and don’t zoom in too tight.’” Even if you didn’t see the game, Greule’s
photo tells the whole horrible story. Read the full Story >>
Motionographer Friday January 16, 2015
At first glance, H&M Conscious Films look 100-percent handmade. And, notes Motionographer, they are … in a sense. Directed by photographer Bela Borsodi, the animated shorts have a retro
vibrancy that underscores their message about the clothing retailer’s commitment to recycling. But while everything was shot in camera, the production processes relied heavily on high-tech
problem solving, explains technical director Michelle Higa Fox: “[A] lot of the pipeline tools I created for this project, which was very tactile, are the same tools I use when working in
‘high-tech’ interactive and projection-mapping projects,” she says in an interview. Read the full Story >>
BLOUIN ARTINFO Thursday December 26, 2013
For his latest exhibition, renowned fashion photographer Mario Testino went home—to Peru. Trekking repeatedly over five years to Cusco City, once the capital of the Inca Empire, Lima-born
Testino discovered a vast trove of costumes from the region so rich in color and heritage that he found himself delving deeper and deeper into a desire to document them, notes Artinfo, which features
an interview with the photographer. Inspired by pioneering Latin American photographer Martin Chambi, Testino captured a series of dazzling images showcasing traditional and festival clothing. The
images are on view the Queen Sofia Spanish Institute in New York through March 29, 2014. Read the full Story >>
NPPA Friday December 20, 2013
Is conventional photography dead? “No…but what’s conventional photography?” says noted photojournalist and mobile photo advocate Benjamin Lowy in an interview with photo
editor and blogger Jim Colton at NPPA, “If you asked purists 50 years ago,” says Lowy, “they would have said it was black & white. If you asked Ansel Adams, it would be
8x10…what’s this Leica bullshit? Conventional photography is the ‘norm’ of what the industry is using.” Lowy’s prediction for 2014: More change. Read the full Story >>
Roger Ebert Tuesday November 27, 2012
Cultural fascination with the Master of Suspense has been reignited this fall with the release of Hitchcock, about the making of Psycho, and the HBO movie The Girl, about
the making of The Birds. The films have prompted a number of interesting stories in the media, including recent interviews with Hitchcock stars Anthony Hopkins (at Vulture) and Helen Mirren (Wall Street Journal). More insightful is a Wired
essay exploring six ways that Psycho slashed Hollywood’s rulebook to shreds. But the story not to miss is not recent at all: At RogerEbert.com you can find a hilarious interview the
critic did with Hitchcock back in 1969. Any day you can read Ebert on Hitchcock is a good day. Read the full Story >>
The New York Times Wednesday November 2, 2016
We have previously featured the work of Rio de Janeiro-based freelance photographer Peter Bauza in Dispatches From Latin America and in AI-AP Profiles. Bauza, who is a past winner of the Latin American
Fotografia competition, has been roundly acclaimed for his series “Copacabana Palace,” a study of squatters living in abandoned buildings in Rio. The work has now been collected in Copacabana, a new book by Edition Lammerhuber. “A squatter is not born as a squatter,” Bauza said
in a recent interview with the New York Times. “Our society and the government forces them to be there.” Read the full Story >>
Fstoppers Thursday October 24, 2013
Whether you’re a filmmaker, photographer, or photographer transitioning to film, you’ll want to watch the visual set piece created by the Norwegian production house Slaughterhouse
Pictures as a promo for an upcoming feature film called Sønner av Satan, or Sons of Satan. The video successfully combines principles of both stills and motion work to create
high-impact visuals with zero budget and very limited resources, notes Fstoppers, which features a BTS clip and detailed interview with the filmmakers. Meanwhile, NoFilmSchool shares
three no/low-budget editing tips from filmmaker and editor Vashi Nedomansky. Read the full Story >>
The New York Times Monday July 27, 2015
Ingrid Sischy, a writer, editor and cultural critic known for her long associations with Interview magazine, The New Yorker and Vanity Fair, died on Friday in Manhattan at 63. Her death was from
breast cancer, reports the New York Times. Sischy, whose career began with an internship at the Museum of Modern Art, where she curated an exhibition called "In the Twenties: Portraits From the
Photography Department," and another on photographer Ansel Adams, went on to champion many artists, including photographers Cindy Sherman and Robert Mapplethorpe. Slate has more. The Observer collects some of her best writing. The New Yorker remembers Sischy, and does Vanity Fair's Graydon Carter. Read the full Story >>
feature shoot Wednesday July 3, 2013
David Rochkind’s book Heavy Hand, Sunken Spirit chillingly documents the social costs of Mexico’s violent drug
war, notes Feature Shoot, which has an interview with the Detroit-born, Haiti-based photographer. Rochkind began the work in 2007, with a trip to Nogales, Sonora. “At the time I was living in
Caracas, Venezuela, and didn’t know the exact shape that the project would take,” he says. In 2009 he moved to Mexico City to work on the project in more depth. At this point, he says,
Mexico is “defined as much by violence and tension as by history and culture.” Read the full Story >>
THE CREDITS Friday August 2, 2013
After working as an assistant editor on movies for the likes of Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, and Nora Ephron, and getting her break cutting Nicole Holofcener’s first feature
Walking and Talking (1996), Alisa Lepselter got the job of a lifetime—cutting Woody Allen’s Sweet and Lowdown (1999). She has now edited her 15th Allen film, the acclaimed
Blue Jasmine. “The way he makes films…[is] specific to him, he doesn’t want to edit the film until he’s shot the whole thing,” Lepselter says in a BTS interview
with website The Credits. Read the full Story >>
