Photographer Jay Parkinson interviewed by Jörg Colberg

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…

Read interview at Conscientious

Jörg Colberg on artist statements

Jörg Colberg wrote an excellent piece on fine art photographers’ artist statements that I couldn’t possibly agree more with. It begins:

"It’s interesting (and a bit sad) that when you look at what is commonly called fine-art photography it always comes with a statement, which typically contains some sort of explanation or motivation for the photography. You never get to see something like ‘I just wanted to take some beautiful photos’…"

Continue reading, then read the follow-up.

Just going through his site, check out the rest of his blog, Conscientious, it’s quite good.

Via slowlight