Interview

David Ken:
Rire pour survivre

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David Ken is a fashion and celebrity photographer, so he usually shoots in a studio, relying on a team of makeup artists and hairstylists. The LOL PROJECT represents a big change for him. It was born of his desire to photograph regular people caught in a fit of laughter. I spo...

11.04.2013[ read full story ]

Interview

Michael Mack: interview by Jonas Cuénin

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After twenty years of working in the shadows, Michael Mack, founder of the eponymous publishing house three years ago, is experiencing a resounding success thanks to his audacious catalogue. He developed the character of his works while serving as an apprentice to the demandin...

09.04.2013[ read full story ]

Interview

Nancy Ellison by Andy Romanoff

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Nancy EllisonAltered Ego’s opened on March 19th at the Pacific Design Center. Nancy has been photographing Hollywood, music, writers, the dance world and politicians since the seventies and her body of work is prodigious. In order to put this retrospective ...

10.04.2013[ read full story ]

Interview

Amman 2013: Interview with Linda Al Khoury

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Born in 1979, In Amman – Jordan, Linda Al Khoury was fascinated by photography from her youth and after a few years of experimenting and working in photography, she decided in 2007 to make her own dream a reality, and established one of a kind center for pho...

02.04.2013[ read full story ]

Interview

Amman 2013: Interview with Charles-Henri Gros

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Fr DispoWith his eyes fixed on the horizon, Charles-Henri Gros, an easygoing man in his forties, “got the job done,” as they say. Since his appointment as Director of the French Institute in Jordan in September 2010, Gros has sought to make the photograph...

02.04.2013[ read full story ]

Interview

An Interview with Lise Li:
Vanguard Gallery Director

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The Vanguard Gallery is dedicated to the promotion of a young generation of Asian artists and located in one of the most famous arty places in Shanghai: M50. Among the cluster of unceasingly changing galleries and studios, the Vanguard Gallery belongs to the “sen...

15.03.2013[ read full story ]

Interview

Jaime Permuth: Yonkeros
By Elizabeth Avedon

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In his first monograph, Yonkeros, Guatemalan photographer Jaime Permuth documents “The Iron Triangle”: Willets Point, a small and often overlooked enclave of New York City that is home to junkyards and scrap metal businesses. “Permuth’s beautiful black-and-white photograp...

08.03.2013[ read full story ]

Interview

Mike Brodie
by Elizabeth Avedon

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Mike Brodie doesn’t have a telephone, so I asked someone who asked someone who asked Mike Brodie a few questions about how he taught himself to make such well-crafted photos when he had never trained as a photographer. Brodie answered, “The first camera I used was a Polaroid 600, the...

28.02.2013[ read full story ]

Interview

Guy Bourdin: A message for you by Nicolle Meyer

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Guy Bourdin refused to publish books in his lifetime. For this extraordinary fashion photographer, printed images belonged in magazines, like Vogue, where he was a frequent contributor from 1955 to 1987, or in advertisements, like the ones he d...

15.03.2013[ read full story ]

Interview

Thomas Eller: The White Male Complex, No.2

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The White Male Complex, No.2″ is a winter show. It is fair to assume that in February it will still be dark and cold in Berlin. It is also the time for advertising underwear in public spaces which bombard us with images of femininity and masculinity from the fashi...

18.02.2013[ read full story ]

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