Edward Burtynsky is a legendary Canadian fine art photographer who specializes in chronicling the extraction and destruction of the earth and it’s minerals, mines and more. His images bring a painterly beauty to the banal. A photographer and master printer for over forty years, Burtynsky has pioneered a unique way of looking at the planet. […]
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Interview with Siri Kaur
Siri Kaur is a conceptual fine art photographer who has been breaking some interesting ground and news with her fascinating series This Kind of Face. The unique series was recently exhibited at the Cohen Gallery in Los Angeles. I had a moment to talk to Siri about this work and other aspects of her career. […]
Interview with Farrah Karapetian
Farrah Karapetian is a renowned Los Angeles based conceptual artist who creates stunning imagery through photograms or “cameraless” photography. She studied as an undergraduate at Yale University and received her MFA at UCLA. She just concluded an exhibition at Danziger Gallery in New York City and looks forward to her second exhibition at Von Lintel […]
Interview with Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf
Erwin Olaf has been one of the top advertising and people photographers in the world for over twenty-five years. His current show Waiting: Selections from Erwin Olaf: Volume I & II is being exhibited at the Hasted Kraeutler Gallery in New York. While continuing to do innovative commercial work, he has increasingly become focused on […]
Podcast interview with Rose Shoshana of the Rose Gallery
Coming from the Mid-East to Detroit at ten years old, Rose Shoshana began as a photographer, and evolved to become one of the seminal pioneers in the LA art gallery movement. Some of the renowned artists she represents include: Graciela Iturbide, John Chiara, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, William Eggleston, Tania Franco Klein and many others. In […]
Podcast Interview Paul Martineau – curator with the Getty Museum
Paul Martineau is a 20 year veteran curator of the Getty Photography art department, and one of the most prolific and respected book authors of seminal monographs and thematic compendiums of photographers and their history. His books include examinations of: Robert Mapplethorpe, Herb Rifts, Minor White, Eliot Porter, Imogen Cunningham, Paul Outterbridge, as well as […]
Interview with Swiss-Israeli fine art photographer Naomi Leshem
Naomi Leshem is a Swiss-Israeli fine art photographer whose current series, Centered, just finished showing at the Andrea Meislin gallery in New York City. Her newest series is called Forty, which references both religion and the desert, and will be shown at The Jerusalem Artists’ House. I recently spoke to Naomi about both these collections […]
Podcast Interview with Albert Watson
Albert Watson is a Scottish commercial and fine art photographer based in New York City, who is widely known as one of the most successful and influential portrait and fashion photographers of the last half century. Watson got started in the late 1960s, and has photographed numerous covers for top magazines such as; Vogue and […]
Podcast Interview with Roger Ballen
Roger Ballen is a legendary fine art photographer who grew up in New York and moved to South Africa many years ago. He has been widely exhibited in museums and galleries all over the world, and this April has an upcoming exhibition at the Fahey/Klein Gallery in Los Angeles. His innovative work has created a […]
Podcast interview with Alejandro Cartagena
The is the second interview with Alejandro Cartagena – the first with live audio. We get to hear what’s new and exciting with one of the world’s top fine art photographers. You can find Alejandro’s new exciting works at: https://assembly.art/artists/alejandro-cartagena. Cartagena is a fine art photographer based in Monterrey, Mexico, and is represented by […]