Interview with Katherine Oktober Matthews in XOXO Magazine
"When something interests me, I follow it for a while to see where it leads."
—Katherine Oktober Matthews (XOXO The Mag, 2015)
Picture or It Didn’t Happen
“As uncountable photos of bikinis and cocktails pass by my social networking streams in summer – trophy heads mounted on the wall celebrating the ‘best party ever’, souvenirs marking the sacrifices made at the altar of YOLO – I can’t help but wonder, is there anybody out there still buying into all this?”
(GUP Magazine, 2015)
The Decisive Moment
"Above and beyond his many iconic photographs, [Henri Cartier-Bresson's] use of a simple phrase transcended into holy verse in the context of photography: the decisive moment."
(GUP Magazine, 2015)
Interview with Bruce Gilden
“Well, look, the idea of doing pictures is not to have arguments, ok?”
—Bruce Gilden (GUP Magazine)
Portfolio Reviews in Arles
I’ll be reviewing portfolios again this year in Arles, at the official Rencontres event and at Voies Off. Registrations now open!
Do Drones Dream of Simulated Celebrities?
"Perhaps an integral part of human vision is the power of, and inclination towards, deception."
(GUP Magazine, 2015)
Interview with Roger Ballen
“The pictures also should be like a truth or an essence, and things that are truths or essences are also difficult to talk about; they just are.”
—Roger Ballen (GUP Magazine)
Interview with Mike Brodie
"All I wanted to do was move, if I wasn’t moving I wasn’t doing and I would get sad and lose direction, always moving."
—Mike Brodie (GUP Magazine)