Interview with German fine art photographer Thomas Demand
Thomas Demand is a German photographer and sculpturist who is internationally known for his remarkable and engaging political still life artworks. I had the opportunity recently to ask Thomas about the thoughts and processes that go into making his art and photos. When did you start being a sculpturist? What were the early influences
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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 Canadian fine art photographer Edward Burtynsky
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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Podcast Interview with Soo Kim
Soo Kim is a South Korean born, Korean-American artist who currently works and teaches in Los Angeles, CA. Her innovative, one of a kind, art pieces have generated acclaim nationwide. She attained art degrees from both UC Riverside and Cal Arts in Valencia, CA; and has shown her works at the Getty, Julie Saul in
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Interview with Chinese, American, and Indonesian fine art photographer Mei Xian Qiu
Mei Xian Qiu is a Chinese, American, and Indonesian fine art photographer whose current series, Qilin, is showing at the Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles through April 19, 2014. 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 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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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