written by: Corey Arnold, Paul SchranzCorey Arnold came across our radar when he was named one of 30 emerging photographers to watch in 2009. His understanding of the real world elements of involvement in a project both photographic and interactive gives Arnold a unique perspective. In between seasons, we were able to pose some questions to him: PS: Which came first—fishing or photography? When and why did you decide to combine them? How comfortable are you with leading this “double life?” CA: I was wearing diapers, no shirt and pair of awesome red Ray-Ban looking sunglasses in the earliest picture of me fishing. So, I’d Read more »
written by: Fernando SoutoMy parents emigrated from Uruguay to Australia when I was 18 months old. With my extended family still in Uruguay, I never had the opportunity to really know my relatives−particularly my grandmother, who always seemed to be really old to me. The brief, scrambled international phone calls throughout my childhood did little for me to understand who I was and where I had come from. In 2002, I went to Uruguay for my grandmother’s hundredth birthday. She had grown up in a rural community at the turn of the twentieth century, and I would always ask her about her childhood Read more »
written by: Mark DubovoyA writer and critic for the New York Times once told me that every landscape picture worth taking had already been taken. He also claimed that landscape photographers continued in a futile quest to get farther and farther away, to more difficult and inaccessible places, only to return with images that looked basically the same as prior work. I could not disagree more with both statements. I personally feel that any notion that all landscape images worth capturing have already been captured is absolutely preposterous. I am also a strong believer that in spite of the gross overpopulation and pollution Read more »
written by: Cole BarashTypically every snowboard season I like to create some kind of photographic experiment or concept to execute. Always wanting to push the envelope, I find it an exercise that refreshes my creative juices. Challenging oneself is an essential piece to progression in one’s craft. Last season I created, Snow Silho. The main objective: to feature the true style of each snowboarder on each obstacle with all the distractions (backgrounds, trees, snow, sky, colors, etc.) stripped away by making the portrait a silhouette. The idea originated when I saw an old snowboard photo that Trevor Graves had shot of a rider Read more »
written by: Thomas SchiffAlthough I have always owned a 35mm camera, I have never been comfortable with the small format and have preferred the medium and large format cameras, the 4 x 5 and 8 x 10. Not only did the large negatives provide more detail and greater range, they forced me to slow down and think more about the process of making a photograph. As a result, the tedious nature of working with large format cameras has helped me in making a logical transition to making photographs with the Hulcherama panoramic camera. The camera is based on the old circuit camera from Read more »
written by: Julieanne Kost, Paul SchranzWhen it comes to aesthetic digital collage and technical expertise with Photoshop, few can equal Julieanne Kost. Professionally a Digital Imaging Evangelist for Adobe, Kost not only knows her tools, but she incorporates her skill into some of the most sensitive narrative collages exhibited today. I recently had the opportunity to spend time with Julieanne, and she answered some pertinent questions and offered insights into her artwork and her life at Adobe. PS: You were originally a psychology major. Tell me how you went from earning that degree into a career in photography. JK: I have always been interested in Read more »
Landscape's Narrative
Wind ripples across an estuary creating a rhythmic pattern on the surface attracting my attention. Waves of thought break and wash over the moment, dredging up an internal dialogue. Words break the surface, invoke memory, emotion and spirit, and mix with historic, scientific and literary associations. Questions form, hover and move on, like clouds in the sky. Landscapes of vast, undifferentiated spaces such as deserts and large bodies of water have a hold on me. They have been a source of inspiration for me as an artist and photographer for over two decades. My concept of landscape begins in the Read more »
written by: Edda TaylorFirst I studied fine art, and then I fell in love with photography. Ambient light has always been my preferred element of the medium. In my first photography class, my professor, Gerhard Bakker, influenced my defining style when he said, “You are going to become a photographer. A painter of light.” He explained the origin of the word “photography” from the Greek words “photo” meaning “light” and “grapho” meaning “write.” I knew I would be a painter of light using a camera instead of a brush, and I began my explorations of light. As a painter learns the properties of Read more »
written by: Seán DugganThough I have been using digital technologies in my photographic work since 1992, and the majority of my images today are made with digital SLRs, for the photographic project featured in this article I still have one foot firmly in the analog world of film and simple pinhole cameras. For those who are unfamiliar with this type of photography, a pinhole camera has no lens, just a tiny pinhole through which light enters and exposes the scene. I had made occasional forays into the world of pinhole photography throughout the 1990s, but in 2000 I began to explore it more Read more »
The Stetson Campaign: An Interview with Tyler Stableford
written by: Tyler Stableford, Paul SchranzEveryone likes to think that when they do a commercial assignment, the photographer will have an enormous amount of control over what gets photographed and how it will be done. In corporate assignments, the team involved is similar to what you would image working on a movie set, and this doesn’t even begin to account for the number of corporate people on hand to supervise production. Tyler Stableford is among the leading location photographers who worked on an ad campaign for Stetson. This interview with him sheds light on the complexities and nuances of doing a corporate shoot of this Read more »
