David Schonauer
TIME LightBox Wednesday February 3, 2016
Since its publication in 1988, Chris Killip’s book In Flagrante has been hailed as an influential masterpiece of photojournalism that, notes Time LightBox, served as a savage
criticism of Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s reign in the U.K. Now Steidl is reprinting the book as In Flagrante Two. (The book is accompanied by an exhibition at New York’s Yossi Milo Gallery through Feb. 27.) The new edition is, in many ways, a different and better book, says Killip in an interview. Read the full Story >>
British Journal of Photography Thursday March 16, 2017
“I’ve never been a
photographer who has left much to chance. I don’t hunt my portraits, I set them up. There’s a difference between writing and poetry. Whereas I could write with the darkroom, I can make
poetry with digital.” So says photographer Nadav Kander in a probing interview with the British Journal of Photography. Kander talks about the evolution of his creative approach and the personal
issues he faced while photographing Donald Trump for Time’s 2016 Person of the Year cover. Read the full Story >>
DAZED Wednesday January 25, 2017
He goes by the name AboveGround, but his areas of specialty are the underground hip hop and graffiti scenes of New York and London. “I see underground culture
as an iceberg. The top is seen by everyone but to understand the size of the iceberg you have to go underwater,” he tells Dazed, which calls his images are raw and real. “I kind of feel
privileged to make sure that certain events, people or places are caught on camera," the photographer says in an interview. "I want to show people how the
meal was made.” Read the full Story >>
Indiewire Wednesday August 31, 2016
Mexico City-based filmmaker Federico Cecchetti is currently living in Paris as part of the prestigious Cinéfondation residency program, which was designed by the Cannes Film Festival to help
promising filmmakers with their first and second feature films. Cecchetti’s work focuses on indigenous communities, specifically Mexico’s Huichole and Tarahumara peoples, notes Indiewire.
In an interview, Cecchetti talks about how he weaves together psychology, philosophy and poetry in his films. Read the full Story >>
Indiewire Monday August 29, 2016
Mexico City-base filmmaker Federico Cecchetti is currently living in Paris as part of the prestigious Cinéfondation residency program, which was designed by the Cannes Film Festival to help
promising filmmakers with their first and second feature films. Cecchetti’s work focuses on indigenous communities, specifically Mexico’s Huichole and Tarahumara peoples, notes Indiewire.
In an interview, Cecchetti talks about how he weaves together psychology, philosophy and poetry in his films. Read the full Story >>
BBC Wednesday January 23, 2013
After photographer Tim Hetherington was killed in Libya in 2011, his friend and colleague Sebastian Junger began an attempt to piece together the never-told details of his final hours. “I had
a lot of questions about how he died. I organized studio interviews with anyone who could shed any light on what happened," Junger says in an interview with the BBC. The result: a new documentary,
Which Way is the Front Line From Here? The Life and Times of Tim Hetherington, premiering this week at Sundance. Junger’s search led him to a heartbreaking truth. Read the full Story >>
nofilmschool Tuesday March 31, 2015
Once you’ve got your interview lighting down and your documentary in the can, you can think about how to get it shown on PBS! It’s not just wishful thinking, says NoFilmSchool: With some
498 hours of documentary programming airing every year on public television, PBS is a viable and financially competitive place to have a broadcast premiere. The recent SXSW film fest featured a panel
discussion called “Doc Distribution: Get Up to Speed with PBS Indies,” and NFS gathered a few tips, such
as: Get to know your local PBS affiliate, and be prepared to deliver your film in alternate lengths. Read the full Story >>
IMAGING USA Wednesday December 7, 2022
The Professional Photographers of America has announced it will present its Lifetime Achievement Award to Eric Meola. The award is given to “an individual whose life's work has enriched the photographic industry and the profession as a whole,” as well as innovation to the field of professional photography. Meola will be presented with his award at the Award & Degree Ceremony at the Imaging USA event in Nashville, TN, on January 23, 2023. Read our interview with Meola from 2019, when he published his book Fierce Beauty: Storms of the Great Plains.
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FILMMAKER Tuesday September 27, 2016
Crescenzo Notarile, cinematographer of the noir-ish TV series Gotham, preaches a philosophy of creativity at Filmmaker: Don’t light with a meter, but with your heart. In an interview,
Notarile talks about how he creates Gotham’s signature moody visual style, the challenges of hiding lights from the show’s wide-angle lenses, and what he learned from working on
Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in America. “Everyone has a different thumbprint. Everyone has a different way of seeing things. It’s a very subjective medium,” he
says. Read the full Story >>
Vimeo Monday November 10, 2014
Filmmaker Robert Grieves’s short Sausage has been racking up film fest awards for good reason: With good-natured, nostalgic
visuals, he tells the story of two artisanal food vendors who are confronted by a competitor who, like an animated Jeff Bezos, will stop at nothing to increase market share. “Sausage is a
great example of how a simple, but carefully-considered premise can yield positive results when executed with the love and care,” notes Short of the Week. You can go here for an
interview with Grieves. Read the full Story >>
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Friday February 10, 2017
The man who spent the past
eight years as chief White House photographer for Barack Obama has universal advice for every White House photographer who succeeds him, including Shealah Craighead, chosen recently as Donald
Trump’s official photographer: “Earn the trust of the president and push for as much access as he will allow,” Pete Souza tells National Geographic in a valedictory interview.
“That is what will make the best photographs, and that’s what the country deserves.” Read the full Story >>
Camilo Echavarria Thursday January 2, 2014
Colombian photographer Camilo Echavarría explores the relationship of man and his habitat in multimedia projects such as “Cauca,” which is not a traditional video, but rather a
nine-minute collage of still images combined with sounds. Based in Medellin, where he was born in 1970, Echavarría studied at the University of Southern New Hampshire and obtained a MA in Art
History from Universidad de Antioquia in Colombia. He also studied photography at Rockport College in the US. Go here for an interview with Echavarría. Read the full Story >>
THE VERGE Monday March 25, 2013
Speaking of photo sharing: When Marissa Mayer took over as CEO of Yahoo, she famously pledged to make the company’s Flickr service awesome again. The person in charge of the turnaround is
Markus Spiering (@spieri), who took over as head of product development in 2011. The Verge talks with him about what he’s done so far—a massive makeover and an update to Flickr’s
iPhone app, with 3.5 million new images uploaded daily—and what photographers can expect going forward. Read the full Story >>
Poynter. Thursday April 18, 2013
Javier Manzano, who this week was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for his image of two Syrian rebel fighters guarding their position as beams of light stream through bullet holes
in a nearby metal wall, is the first freelancer to do so in 17 years, notes Poynter, which features an interview with the photographer. “It is very expensive to travel and operate in the region
when very few news outlets are willing and able to provide the necessary resources,” says Manzano, who has also covered Mexico’s drug war and the war in Afghanistan. Read the full Story >>
feature shoot Friday August 8, 2014
Some nudes are more than skin deep: Earlier this year, Feature Shoot also spotlighted Brooklyn-based photographer Lauren Renner’s
project In Others’ Words—a collection of nude portraits in which the subjects’ bodies are covered in words that others have used to describe them. “It simulates the
act we commit of labeling each other in society every day,” says Renner in an interview. “By stripping away their clothing, I’m essentially eliminating any pre-conceived context
between them.” Read the full Story >>
Billboard Monday November 3, 2014
What will OK Go think of next? The band continues its lineage of groundbreaking music videos by bringing in drones to capture aerial footage of dancers—it's sort of Busby Berkeley for
Millennials. As CNN notes, the band also used self-balancing Honda
vehicles called UNI-CUBs to create the visuals. Results: The video, for the song “I Won’t Let You Down,” has had some three million views on YouTube. Billboard features an interview
with the band and Japanese director Morihiro Harano about the making of the video. Read the full Story >>
Cultured Friday October 1, 2021
Juergen Teller rose to fame in the 1990s with his distinctive, “matter-of-fact” style of photographing models, celebrities and other subjects — images, notes Cultured, that “radiate with the complications of life: humor, death, ugliness, unremitting beauty.” His new book from Rizzoli, Donkey Man and Other Stories: Editorial Works Vol. 1, brings his sprawling vision together. “Photography can be anything,” Teller says in an interview. Meanwhile, he tells WSJ Magazine that he gets his best ideas in the shower. Read the full Story >>
Digital Camera World Thursday March 7, 2024
Nikon recently affirmed that the company will place a higher degree of focus on firmware updates and has acknowledged their importance in the photography community, notes Digital Camera World. “Nowadays, because firmware developers can identify things that can be done, we don't have to wait for the next model to make improvements.” said Mitsuteru Hino, Nikon's head of UX Planning, in an interview with the French publiction Phototrend. The most recent Nikon firmware update was for the Nikon Z8, which saw its first major refresh, adds DCW.
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FILM COURAGE Wednesday July 31, 2013
Joshua Oppenheimer says that making the new documentary The Act of Killing gave him nightmares. The director makes the admission in a revealing video interview at Film Courage. The doc,
produced by Werner Herzog and Errol Morris, follows a number of Indonesians as they re-enact the mass killings they were responsible for following a bloody government overthrow in 1965.
“If…I see these men as anything but human then I’m…escaping…reality by telling myself that I’m not like them,” says Oppenheimer. Read the full Story >>
feature shoot Thursday July 18, 2013
Brooklyn-based photographer Sara Cwynar’s “Color Studies” series is a contemporary take on the
traditional still life. Cwynar was partially inspired by her love of collecting, but also by her desire to investigate how the meaning of objects and imagery changes over time, notes Feature Shoot,
which has an interview with the self-described hoarder. “This series was inspired by old or obsolete stock photos that I had collected—where something once desirable and cutting-edge had
come to look absurd or even sinister,” says Cwynar. Read the full Story >>
