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Chris Keeney talks to Leslie Bastress (Bea) as part of his excellent ongoing series of interviews with fine art photographers.

Read it at ChrisKeeney.com

Photo News Today’s Dennis Hays says:

After meeting both John Sexton and [Kodak’s] Scott DiSabato at the 2007 Photoplus Expo in New York, I sit down with them and discuss the introduction of the new [see previous post] T-MAX-400 B&W film. John goes into some detail regarding the films ability and his impressions from use.

As more and more digital cameras are introduced, I wanted to find what Kodak’s thinking was in introducing a new film and who the possible users are. Also, John discusses his workflow with the film and how and why he uses film for his work. A fascinating chat with two ends of the spectrum—a film manufacturer and a film user.

Listen: Direct MP3 link or podcast page (length: 31:56)

Chris Keeney talks to pinhole/Holga/Polaroid experimental photographer Therese Brown as part of his excellent ongoing series of interviews with fine art photographers.

You can see Brown’s work at her Web site, ThisIsWhatISee.com as well as on Flickr.

This one’s a must-read, so do it at ChrisKeeney.com.

Chris Keeney talks to Arnold Erasmus as part of his excellent ongoing series of interviews with fine art photographers.

Read it at ChrisKeeney.com

Check out this video interview with Sally Mann and her daughter from Newseek magazine about making her book, Immediate Family.

Next up in Chris Keeney’s series of interviews with photographers—which are actually interesting as they’re not all about cameras and what you had for breakfast—is one of my favourite artists of all time, Rebecca Pendel.

Check it out at ChrisKeeney.com

Check out this interview with Robert Holmgren by Chris Keeney.

You can see Holmgren’s work at his Web site, robertholmgren.com.

Check out this interview with toy camera photographer Steph Parke by Mário Venda Nova. In both English and Portuguese.

Check out this excellent interview with Katie Cooke by Chris Keeney.

You can see Cooke’s work at her Web site, slowlight.net.

Apart from being an accomplished photographer, Martin Parr has been active as a book editor (for example, Boring Postcards or The Photobook: A History) and curator. This Summer, "Colour before colour - 1970’s European Color Photography" will be on view at Hasted Hunt gallery, curated by Martin and showcasing six not very widely known early European colour pioneers. I talked to him about the show.

Jörg Colberg: Why did it take so long for colour photography to be accepted as an art form?

Martin Parr: I guess because the museum/art world was rather dismissive of it. Although, as soon as colour was invented it was used used for commercial purposes, and there were indeed some photographers who did their own work in it. It wasn’t ever taken seriously…

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