Photojournalist Lynn Johnson is known for her intense and sensitive work, photographing the global human condition for the past 35 years. In 1975 she earned a BA in Photographic Illustration…
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This year’s Look3 Festival of the Photograph begins today in Charlottesville, Virginia. The product of a year of effort that started even before last years festival ended, curators Vince…
Someone looks at the eclipse picture, and they think, “All he did was just go click, click, click, click.” But what happened in 1979 was first that I had to…
The Mexican photographer Héctor García died this week. Born in Mexico City in 1923, García studied under Manuel Alvarez Bravo and Gabriel Figueroa. Beginning in 1945, he worked as a…
For its new Portrait de Ville, Éditions Be-Pôles gave Vincent Fournier the carte blanche. The city he decided to capture was Brasilia. In this travel journal, he delivers a fragment…
This interview written by Mark Alice Durant has been published in the magazine Saint Lucy. I first became aware of Suzanne Opton’s stunning photographs of American soldiers in Contact Sheet,…
Burris likes black—not just the black that contrasts with white backgrounds, human skins and other trappings. He likes black hair, black stripes, black fabric, black hats and boots, and…
It is often easier to work with renowned photographers, rather than with young pretentious and arrogant ones. Like Ralph Gibson. I hadn’t worked on a book with him…
Jean Dieuzaide was my only photographic reference when in 1968 I timidly entered his house on rue Erasme in Toulouse to get some wise advice. At the time, he was…
I had just turned 16 and it was clear that my studies would lead nowhere, which forced my father to put me to work. I had the choice between three…