Bruce Davidson is an American photographer who's well known for his photographs of Harlem, New York City decades ago. In the video above, he sits down and talks to Leica about his life and work: …
Ever wonder what it's like to be the world's fastest man winning a gold medal at the Olympics? Usain Bolt wants you to know.
In 2011, photographer Michael Wolf was awarded Honorable Mention in the World Press Photo 2011 contest for screenshots taken from Google Street View. It immediately sparked a debate regarding whether or not the work should even be considered "original photography". The Independent has an interesting article about a different Street View "photographer": Jon Rafman, whose work we've featured here before.
What would you pack in your camera bag to shoot the biggest sporting event in the world? PopPhoto has a great interview with Getty photographer Streeter Lecka in which he talks about preparing for (and shooting) the Olympics in London.
Here's a great behind-the-scenes video by The Creators Project featuring Li Wei, the Chinese photographer whose gravity-defying photographs have captured the world's imagination. You can see some of his work in this interview we did with him back in 2010.
Capture is a new show hosted by world-renowned celebrity photographer Mark Seliger. In every episode, Seliger will invite one other famous photographer and one celebrity who's passionate about photography. The three then have a conversation about their work, their experiences, and their trade secrets. This first episode features photographer Platon and actor Dylan McDermott.
German photographer Jan Leonardo Wöllert doesn't just do "light painting," for him light painting probably denotes nothing more than a photographical hobby that many people enjoy trying out on occasion. No, Wöllert specializes in "light art performance photography," and this feature on Deutsche Welle TV illustrates the difference quite well.
Mexican photojournalist Julian Cardona has lived in Ciudad Juarez since 1960 and began documenting the city in the early 1990s as a photojournalist for the local newspaper, El Diario. He says he's seen Juarez shift from an idyllic postcard-worthy border town to the city known as the homicide capital of the world.
If you're a fan of hearing from photography greats and have some free time, check out his awesome documentary film about Henri Cartier-Bresson titled Henri Cartier-Bresson: L'amour Tout Court ("Just Plain Love"). It was directed by Raphaël O’Byrne back in 2001 when Cartier-Bresson was 92 years old, and features interviews with the legendary photojournalist as he talks about how various photographs were made.
Editor's note: This post contains graphic photos that some readers may find disturbing.
When Leica announced “Henri”, the M9 Monocrom on May 10th, it caused a lot of fervor on blogs and photography websites. The all black camera, named after the legendary black and white Leica photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson was devoid of almost all Leica markings and seemed niche even for the niche camera maker.
In addition to being an internationally successful musician, Moby is also an avid photographer. He began shooting photos at the age of 10, and has since held numerous exhibitions around the world and published a photo book titled "Destroyed" (a title it shares with an album released at the same time). In the video above, Moby talks about his passion for shooting architectural photographs in Los Angeles, and also the photoblog he maintains through which he shares his work.
Of the photographs that emerged after the recent solar eclipse on May 20th, there aren't many that are more epic than the "Ring of Fire" photo captured by Michael Chow of The Arizona Republic. In an interview with Dallas News, Chow reveals that the photograph was birthed rather spontaneously. Shooting the eclipse in Phoenix's Papago Park -- a hiking area he knows well -- Chow noticed a group of people standing on a butte a quarter mile away. He parked his car, ran across some desert, and …
Ken Burns is a documentary legend, and even though he comes from a filmmaking perspective, his ideas on what makes a story worth telling (or, in our case, a moment worth capturing) are universal and universally inspiring.
Here's an interesting 1981 interview with American street photographer Garry Winogrand in which he talks about his life, his work, and -- interestingly enough -- how he finds the term "street photographer" stupid.
Words certainly won't do Kevin Michael Connolly justice. Born without legs, this part-photographer, part-professional skier, part-writer is, ironically enough, an inspiration to us all (we say ironically because in the Today Show interview above they talk about how much he hates to be called an inspiration).
Here's an interesting video in which street photographer Matt Stuart shares some of his work and talks about his love for street photography. In an interview with More Intelligent Life, Stuart states, …
Here's an hour-long live video interview that Photoshelter recently did with Michele Hadlow, senior photo editor over at Forbes Magazine.
PDN has published an interview with art collector Jonathan Sobel, who's suing photographer William Eggleston for creating and selling new prints of iconic photos that were once sold as "limited edition" prints. The new prints that recently fetched $5.9 million at auction were digital prints that were larger than the original ones.
Leica recently put out this short portrait of renowned street photographer Joel Meyerowitz, who talks about his beginnings as a photographer and also his role in creating an archive of the destruction and recovery at Ground Zero. Starting from a few days after the 9/11 attacks, Meyerowitz shot over 8,000 in and around the site with the help of a special workers pass that gave him privileged access.
The Guardian published an article yesterday that features a number of prominent photographers (e.g. Jane Bown, Martin Parr, Terry O'Neil, Platon) sharing about missed photo opportunities and their "worst shots". Platon has an interesting story regarding photographing Iranian president Ahmadinejad back in 2009 while snapping portraits of world leaders: …
Here's a video in which renowned portrait photographer Nadav Kander discusses his approach to photography and portraiture. One thing that's interesting about Kander's method is that he tries not to connect with his subjects prior to photographing them: …
A wonderful hour-long interview with Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Last week we shared an interesting video that shows how Civil War-era tintype photographs were created.
Here's an interesting 20-minute-long documentary film titled Chimping in which Dan Perez de la Garza speaks to various photojournalists about their work and the state of their profession. Subjects include two Pulitzer Prize winners and an Emmy Award winner.
You've likely seen plenty of images of giant waves from above the surface of the water, but have you ever seen what it's like to pass under a wave? Photographer Mark Tipple has an amazing project called "The Underwater Project" in which he captures epic photographs of swimmers diving deep in order to survive passing waves, which look like ominous storm clouds rolling overhead.
For those of you who are interested in the business and technology side of things, here's an interesting 45-minute interview in which Digg founder Kevin Rose chats with Instagram founder Kevin Systrom: …
Here's an inspiring video in which we hear war photographer Joao Silva discuss the biggest fight of his life: losing his legs to a land mine in Afghanistian and fighting to return to his career. We've reported on Silva's story a number of times before.
Here are five interesting interview excerpts with renowned street photographers. They're from Everybody Street, a documentary on NYC street photographers that recently finished raising funds through Kickstarter. The video above features Bruce Gilden.
This video was shot by a German film crew in the early 1980s, and shows American street photographer Garry Winogrand at work. Although he died of bladder cancer at age 56, his photographic output during his lifetime was enormous, even compared to other photographers: …
The Fader has published an interview with Instagram founder Kevin Systrom that reveals how Systrom first got into photography, and how the service's now-ubiquitous filters came about: …
Philip Bloom recently shot this interesting mini-documentary on Anthony Vizzari using a Sony NEX-5N. Vizzari is a guy who collects photographs and cameras, owns a photo shop, and runs a photobooth business. Here's an artist, architect, antiquarian, photographer, and storyteller, and calls himself an "archotographist".
Here's the second half of Tamara Lackey's recent interview with photographer Chase Jarvis.
Tamara Lackey recently sat down with Chase Jarvis to talk about how he became a successful photographer. Chase offers a lot of really good high-level advice for aspiring photographers based on his own experiences -- both the successes and the failures.
Update on 12/18/21: This video has been removed by its creator.
Here's an inspiring and educational video in which Marc Silber sits down to chat with photographer Michael Zagaris -- a man who has had a career as the official shooter for both rock bands (e.g. Rolling Stones, The Who, Led Zeppelin) and sports teams (e.g. San Francisco 49ers, Oakland A's).
Allen Murabayashi is the co-founder and CEO of PhotoShelter.
John Sypal is the photographer behind Tokyo Camera Style, the "Sartorialist of the camera world".
Here's an uber-inspiring video in which National Geographic photographer Sam Abell discusses the difference between "taking" and "making" photographs through his experience of shooting one particular photograph for a story on painter Charles M. Russell. He explains that taking an image is shooting a photo as a reaction, without any preparation, while making a photograph is a process.
Ryan McGinnis is a photographer and storm chaser. You can visit his website here.
Update on 12/18/21: This video embed has been removed by its creator, but the video can still be watched over at FastCompany.
Editor's note: This is the second interview we've done with Haje. The first was back in 2010 regarding his blog Photocritic.org …
It's not every where you get to watch and hear someone picking the brain of a National Geographic photographer. The Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library recorded this video interview with photographer Jim Richardson and asked him to share about his experiences and words of advice. Richardson also has an interesting FAQ page on his website that answers a lot of questions about shooting for the famous yellow-bordered magazine.
Oleg Gutsol is the co-founder and technical director of photo-sharing service 500px.
Jonathan Blaustein is the photographer behind the project "The Value of a Dollar", which went viral on the Internet in 2010 and then was subsequently acquired by the State of New Mexico and the Library of Congress. Visit his website here.
Yuri Arcurs -- AKA the "King of Microstock" -- is the best selling microstock photographer in the world, selling over 2,000 images a day and 2 million a year. Visit his website here.
Shooting the Dalian Oil Spill on assignment for Greenpeace, Chinese photographer Lu Guang witnessed and photographed 25-year-old firefighter Zhang Liang's accidental drowning while attempting to unblock a water pipe in the harbor. His gut-wrenching series of photographs went on to win third prize in the 2011 World Press Photo contest for Spot News. In the video above, he reflects on that day and his role as a photographer in showing the world what happened.
Photo editor John G. Morris is a legendary photo editor who played a huge role in how we perceived major world events in the 20th century. Here's an interesting behind-the-scenes look at his role in shaping history.
David Gallagher was one of the earliest photobloggers with his (now defunct) website lightningfield.com. He is currently an editor at the New York Times.
Here's a pretty interesting 45-minute interview with Pete Souza, which was done via a live web chat at the end of October. Souza is responsible for the behind-the-scenes photographs posted regularly to the official White House Flickr stream. He talks about everything from how photos are selected to crawling around on the floor of the Oval Office to get the perfect shot.
