Category Archives: Interviews

Arts blog interviews fashion and portrait photographer John Midgley

The blog NOMIO—which covers art, photography, fashion, music, and film—recently featured an interview with John Midgley that spans his fine-art influences (inspired by boyhood visits to the Louvre), the notion of how people perceive their mom, his racy Cyber Sentinel ad campaign, and his plans to personally rebuild the staircase in his Brooklyn brownstone (go, [...]

Jim Fiscus shoots story-driven campaign for British Telecom

. For roughly five years now, two fictional characters by the name of Adam and Jane have been at the heart of an immensely popular story-driven ad campaign promoting British Telecom. The pair are so beloved in Britain, in fact, that they have one of the fastest-growing Facebook groups. Recently, Abbott Meade Vickers/bbdo, the London-based agency [...]

Video: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders discusses new doc “About Face”

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Video: Interview with Lauren Greenfield at the Sundance Film Festival

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There’s no place like gnome: Craig Cutler for “Shipping Wars”

Have you seen the A&E reality series Shipping Wars? The show, which debuted on January 10, follows “six independent shippers who have discovered that fortunes can be made transporting items that traditional carriers won’t touch.” (More here.) To promote the series, the network commissioned Craig Cutler to shoot key art—in which a giant gnome features [...]

New personal work: Arcadia, Florida, by John Offenbach

John Offenbach, who is based in London, has just sent me some new personal work that he shot in Arcadia, a small town (its population is well under 10,000, according Wikipedia) in southwest Florida. “Arcadia is one of those small towns that exist on a map, that you always seem to come across en route [...]

The New York Times profiles Kwaku Alston

. The New York Times Lens blog yesterday featured an interview with Kwaku Alston that looks at the award-winning editorial and advertising photographer’s quest to rekindle his personal passion for photography—specifically, by shooting images on his own in his Venice, California, neighborhood. “The Venice community is a remarkable mix of people and cultures,” Kwaku explained [...]

Sports Illustrated: “The Education of Walter Iooss Jr.”

. In its recent Sportsman/Sportswoman issue, Sports Illustrated published a huge feature—something like 12 pages—that explores “The Education of Walter Iooss Jr.” The piece is chock full of candid recollections and observations from the famed SI photog. Below are some highlights. You can read the story in its entirety here. . I won’t do negative [...]

American Photo features Erik Madigan Heck’s “Wild Style”

American Photo recently profiled Erik Madigan Heck, and the article is now available at the magazine’s website with the headline, “Wild Style: Analog methods and a visionary eye help Erik Madigan Heck carve out a unique niche in the fashion industry.” Here’s an excerpt form the piece, which was written by Michael Kaplan: . . [...]

Rangefinder mag features “Michael Muller: Hollywood Blvd”

. Rangefinder magazine has just posted a long feature on Michael Muller that looks at how he got his start in the business and what life is like for this successful entertainment and advertising photographer. (You can hear an interview with Michael in Rangefinder‘s latest podcast.) Here’s how the article, written by Jennifer Chen, begins: [...]

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