Author Archive | Ken Weingart

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Interview with Tina Barney

Tina Barney is one of the most acclaimed fine art photographers in the U.S. She became well known photographing her real family in Rhode Island, and making large color prints from these interactions. While still in the midst of a thriving career, she recently had an exhibition of her current and past works called, Four […]

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Interview with Holly Andres

Holly Andres is an American fine art and commercial photographer who has been creating dynamic and compelling images for over a decade. She started out shooting mostly fine art photography, but gradually branched into editorial assignments with the New York Times Magazine and many others. She continues to evolve and expand her art. For her […]

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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 […]

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Interview with Gregory Crewdson

Gregory Crewdson is one of the best known and influential fine art photographers working today. He is currently the director of the photography department at Yale University where he received his MFA early on. His work is internationally recognized as singularly unique for the painstaking lighting technique, which he creates with the help of very […]

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Podcast Interview with Mei Xian Qiu

Mei Xian Qiu is a Chinese, American, and Indonesian fine art photographer. This is the second interview with Mei — the first since the audio podcast was launched.  Mei’s work is rich in metaphor and meanings, and she has had tremendous success. In the following interview, she opens up about her history and how her […]

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Interview with Mark Seliger

Mark Seliger is one of the best-known editorial portrait photographers in the U.S., for over thirty years. He succeeded Annie Leibovitz as the designated “chief photographer” for Rolling Stone Magazine and has photographed over 125 Rolling Stone covers. His magazine work in portrait and fashion continues to be extensive and includes: Italian Vogue, Elle, Vanity […]

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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 […]