Category Archives: Interviews

Maureen Martel: “If I don’t know who you are by looking at your portfolio, then your book is not doing its job.”

June 3, 2010 – 8:51 am

Ali Dent, who lives in Australia and writes the blog A Sydney Art Buyer, contacted me a while back about the Stockland Martel blog, which turned into an occasional email correspondence, which turned into her doing a sort of free-ranging email interview with Maureen. The interview just went live on Ali’s blog. A couple of [...]

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Is there hope for the annual-reports market?

May 24, 2010 – 3:45 pm

Technology may have opened up new possibilities for photographers, but it’s also decimated a number of previously reliable markets. Printed annual reports, for instance, have taken a hit because more and more companies are opting for PDFs and thus are much less interested in spending money on original photography. Kind of makes you wonder: Is [...]

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Interview with a photo editor: Michael Harlan Turkell of Edible Manhattan

May 7, 2010 – 12:38 pm

. . I’ve always been intrigued by the Edible series of magazines, whose stated mission is to “is to transform the way consumers shop for, cook, eat and relate to local food.” Founded in 2002 by Tracey Ryder and Carole Topalian, Edible is a print franchise: You can start your own edition using the established [...]

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Jim Fiscus: “Outwork your competitors.”

March 1, 2010 – 11:57 am

. Over at the Stockland Martel offices this past fall, Bill and Maureen and the reps were talking about ways that the agency could reach out to students of photography. They were keen to expand their current efforts: Stockland Martel already makes a conscious effort to stay in touch with the various colleges where either [...]

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“Keep the photography simple, and work the print.”

October 1, 2009 – 5:04 pm

… … The fall edition of Esquire‘s Big Black Book, a men’s style guide with a luxury bent, comes out this month, and John Midgley sent me the tearsheets for a story he shot with Esquire fashion director Nick Sullivan. Called “The Revisionists,” it’s about four designers who have attempted to reinvent the suit for [...]

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A Porsche, a gun, and one very angry husband

September 8, 2009 – 1:21 pm

… Doug Menuez has been writing about his life as a photographer in a series of posts called “Blur: A Memoir,” at his blog, Go Fast, Don’t Crash. And though a lot of photographers blog about stuff like their influences or their gear, Doug has gone way deeper than that, especially in his remarkably candid [...]

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