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Interview with pinhole photographer Edward Levinson

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Pinhole Visions‘ Gregg Kemp interviews pinhole photographer Edward Levinson about Levinson’s new book, Timescapes Japan – A Pinhole Journey [book blogged previously]:

Gregg: Has the experience of preparing this book caused you to re-examine or take a fresh look at your work, or at your life in Japan?

Edward: That is an interesting question. In selecting the images for the book, one thing I noticed is that it was often the earlier images that seemed the freshest or at least seemed to have the most impact.

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Pinhole Visions interview: Robert Johnson and Great Picture Project

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The following is a brief interview with Robert Johnson regarding "The Great Picture" project [blogged previously]. The Great Picture project is part of a larger, on-going project to document the closed El Toro Marine Corp Air Station. Project members include photographers Jerry Burchfield, Mark Chamberlain, Jacques Garnier, Rob Johnson, Douglas McCulloh, and Clayton Spada.

PV: How did the idea originate to turn a hangar at El Toro Air Station into a pinhole camera?

RJ: One of our group members (Clayton Spada) has been working/teaching in China. As part of some of the student’s projects there, they were experimenting with making large (roughly 8’X12′) pinhole images…

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Photographer Jay Parkinson interviewed by Jörg Colberg

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Jörg Colberg interviews photographer Jay Parskinson about his Aspiring Models project:

But the project is also interesting from the purely photographic perspective. Doing photographic portraits is very tough – if you don’t believe it try it; and I somehow thought that shooting portraits of people who want to earn money from getting their portrait taken but who have not much actual experience adds another complication to the whole project, since both the photographer and the model have to worry about the photo.

I talked with Jay about these and other aspects of his work…

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Interview with Hasselblad at Luminous Landscape

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Luminous Landscape has just posted an interview with Jack Showalter, president of Hasselblad USA, by fine arts photographer Pete Myers.

"Between sales of Hasselblad scanners and Hasselblad film cameras, as well as our unique position as being a manufacturer of medium format film and digital solutions, I can assure you that film remains extremely important to Hasselblad, despite the fact that the film business is in decline…"

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Experimental photographer Matt Callow interview in Michigan in Pictures

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Ypsilanti District Library by Matt Callow

Experimental photographer Matt Callow, aka Matt Blackcustard, was just interviewed by Michigan in Pictures. I’ve been following his work on Flickr and f295 for some time now and am consistently knocked on my ass. It’s an interesting read as he’s as good at talking about photography as he is at doing it.

You can see more of his work on his own Web site, mattcallow.com, Flickr, LiveJournal, and Tom Persinger’s f295 Pinhole Forum.