When Ben Lowy first began shooting with his iPhone in 2010 it was all about having fun, using the iPhone camera instead of his professional camera gear as a way of differentiating photography as work and as leisure. Three years on and Lowy has built a huge following on social media and now inte...

24.05.2013[ read full story ]

Bangladeshi photographer, journalist and activist Shahidul Alam was in Sydney for the opening of his exhibition, Crossfire and took time out to talk with me about how the project came about and the ongoing impact it is having in his country and beyond. Alam has a long history of addressing...

24.05.2013[ read full story ]

My interest in photography comes directly from my passion for art and in particular for graphics to which I have dedicated my collecting activity since the end of the 1960’s. I think I can identify the passage from graphics to photography was when I understood the affinities bet...

09.05.2013[ read full story ]

Begin with this, that these are completely analog photos. You must let that sink in before you look at the work. Jean-Paul Bourdier’s new book Leap Into The Blue seems so much a product of the Photoshop age that it is easy to miss one of its signature accomplishments – that ...

08.05.2013[ read full story ]

The dress is the last thing that goes into the photograph. It must be like it was already there somehow. The photographs are of real families, realistic situations. It is not the fabulous, perfect, rich, pretty, successful—this is not contemporary. That is 90s, 80s, for the ga...

07.05.2013[ read full story ]

Sebastião Salgado is an icon to photographers around the world although this incredibly unpretentious man, who has created some of the most extraordinary, and important, imagery of our time, would probably not identify with that label. In March I had the enormous privilege ...

01.05.2013[ read full story ]

Morten Krogvold a Norwegian photographer and the author of several books about photography, has served as the festival’s artistic director since its creation. He eagerly agreed to respond to our questions.

19.04.2013[ read full story ]

Since it went online in May 2009, James Estrin is the coeditor of Lens, The New York Times's photography blog, along with David Gonzalez. He also teaches at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He started at The Times in 1987 as...

17.04.2013[ read full story ]

Michelle McNally joined The New York Times as director of photography in June 2004 and was promoted to assistant managing editor in July 2005. Before joining The Times, Ms. McNally was picture editor of Fortune Magazine from November 1986 until May 2004. Previously, she was p...

16.04.2013[ read full story ]

The art book is an object to beheld time and again, a means to reflect on the world before us, a meditation on that which we might not otherwise know were it not for the work, transporting us from the familiar to the foreign by dissolving three dimensions into two. It is through the lens...

18.04.2013[ read full story ]