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This issue collects inspiring photographers’ resources.
28 Collections Of Photographs
17 Q&A’s With Photographers
50 Conversations With Photographers
72 Quotes Collections By Photographer’s
99 Videos On Photographers
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John Paul Caponigro
Phil Borges
Paul Caponigro
David DuChemin
Sean Duggan
Mac Holbert
Sean Kernan
Jay Maisel
Eric Meola
Arthur Meyerson
Chris Orwig
Chris Rainier
Seth Resnick
John Sexton
Joyce Tenneson
Vincent Versace
Huntington Witherill
Core Questions
What’s the best thing about photography?
What’s the worst thing about photography?
What’s the thing that interests you most about photography?
What’s the thing that interests you most about your own photographs?
What’s the thing that interests you most about other people’s photographs?
Who were your early photographic influences?
Who are your photographic influences now?
Who were your early non-photographic influences?
Who are your non-photographic influences now?
What’s the most inspiring work of art you saw recently?
What’s the best thing about gear?
What’s the worst thing about gear?
How do you know when an image doesn’t work?
How do you know when an image is good?
How do you know when an image is great?
What’s the most useful photographic mantra?
Do you practice another art form? (If so, which?)
What benefits do you get from (this/these) other art form/s?
What was the most significant visual moment in your life?
Which was the most important image to you that got away?
What failure did you learn the most from?
What accomplishment are you most proud of?
What’s the thing you most hope to accomplish?
If you had to do it all over again, what would you change?
If you had another life to live a completely different life, what would you choose to do?
What are the most important questions to you?
Optional Questions
What’s photography really all about?
How did photography change the world?
How did photography change your world?
Who were the most important photographers?
Who are the most important photographers working today?
What’s the best thing about influence?
What’s the worst thing about influence?
What’s the best thing about our times?
What’s the worst thing about our times is?
What keeps you up at night?
What gets you going in the morning?
What’s your favorite movie?
What’s your favorite book?
What’s your favorite piece of music?
What’s your idea of perfect happiness?
What is your greatest fear?
Which historical figure do you most identify with?
Who is your favorite hero in fiction?
Who are your heroes in real life?
Which living person do you most admire?
What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
What is the trait you most deplore in others?
What is your greatest extravagance?
What is your favorite journey?
On what occasion do you lie?
What do you dislike most about yourself?
What is your most marked characteristic?
Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
What is your greatest regret?
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
What’s your most treasured possession?
What is your favorite occupation / past time?
What do you most value in your friends?
What’s your motto?
What other talent would you most like to have?
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
What is it that you most dislike?
How would you like to die?
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Photographers
John Paul Caponigro
Phil Borges
Paul Caponigro
David DuChemin
Sean Duggan
Mac Holbert
Sean Kernan
Jay Maisel
Eric Meola
Arthur Meyerson
Chris Orwig
Chris Rainier
Seth Resnick
John Sexton
Joyce Tenneson
Vincent Versace
Huntington Witherill
Core Questions
What’s the best thing about photography?
What’s the worst thing about photography?
What’s the thing that interests you most about photography?
What’s the thing that interests you most about your own photographs?
What’s the thing that interests you most about other people’s photographs?
Who were your early photographic influences?
Who are your photographic influences now?
Who were your early non-photographic influences?
Who are your non-photographic influences now?
What’s the most inspiring work of art you saw recently?
What’s the best thing about gear?
What’s the worst thing about gear?
How do you know when an image doesn’t work?
How do you know when an image is good?
How do you know when an image is great?
What’s the most useful photographic mantra?
Do you practice another art form? (If so, which?)
What benefits do you get from (this/these) other art form/s?
What was the most significant visual moment in your life?
Which was the most important image to you that got away?
What failure did you learn the most from?
What accomplishment are you most proud of?
What’s the thing you most hope to accomplish?
If you had to do it all over again, what would you change?
If you had another life to live a completely different life, what would you choose to do?
What are the most important questions to you?
Optional Questions
What’s photography really all about?
How did photography change the world?
How did photography change your world?
Who were the most important photographers?
Who are the most important photographers working today?
What’s the best thing about influence?
What’s the worst thing about influence?
What’s the best thing about our times?
What’s the worst thing about our times is?
What keeps you up at night?
What gets you going in the morning?
What’s your favorite movie?
What’s your favorite book?
What’s your favorite piece of music?
What’s your idea of perfect happiness?
What is your greatest fear?
Which historical figure do you most identify with?
Who is your favorite hero in fiction?
Who are your heroes in real life?
Which living person do you most admire?
What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
What is the trait you most deplore in others?
What is your greatest extravagance?
What is your favorite journey?
On what occasion do you lie?
What do you dislike most about yourself?
What is your most marked characteristic?
Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
What is your greatest regret?
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
What’s your most treasured possession?
What is your favorite occupation / past time?
What do you most value in your friends?
What’s your motto?
What other talent would you most like to have?
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
What is it that you most dislike?
How would you like to die?
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Chris Orwig provides quick candid answers to 20 questions.
What’s the best thing about photography?
Life is short and time moves too fast. Yet, photography has provided me with the way to try to stop, slow and savor moments that otherwise would have been lost. Even more, good photographs seem to be a concentration of life, a distillation like evaporated sea water where only the salt remains. And photography has become a means and a passport to get out into the world and to live life with more focus, intensity and passion. In a sense, what’s best about photography is that it has saved me. It’s saved me from myself and helped me to focus on others and on the grand mystery of life. And in doing so, photography has given me a new way to see and live.
What’s the thing that interests you most about photography?
The idea that the camera can help you dig more deeply, see more clearly and live life more fully.
What’s the thing that interests you most about your own photographs?
In my own photographs I am always struck by the autobiographical nature of them. In a sense, I can look at a photograph and remember who I was when I took it and how I changed because of it. And collectively, these photographs help me appreciate, remember and make sense of my own life story.
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Jay Maisel provides quick candid answers to 20 questions.
How do you know when an image doesn’t work?
It doesn’t move you in any way.
How do you know when an image is good?
It moves you emotionally.
How do you know when an image is great?
You don’t’ have to think about it, it just does.
What’s the most useful photographic mantra?
Be open.
What is your greatest fear?
Blindness.
Read the rest of Jay’s Q&A here.
Read more 20 Questions With Photographers here.
Read Jay’s favorite quotes here.
David duChemin provides quick candid answers to a 20 questions.
What’s the best thing about photography?
The best thing about photography is the gift of seeing – really seeing – the moments in life that otherwise pass so quickly. It’s the elevation of what we normally see as mundane, or perhaps not the elevation of it so much as the recognition that it was beautiful to begin with.
What’s the worst thing about photography?
Like any storytelling medium or art, it’s easy to fall more in love with how we tell the stories than the stories themselves. I think photographers have an unusual relationship with their gear, one that can be beautifully collaborative or strangely incestuous.
What’s the thing that interests you most about other people’s photographs?
I like to see through the eyes of others, to see what I have not. I’m a very curious person and this gives me a glimpse into a world in ways I’ve not considered it.
Who were your early photographic influences?
My earliest were portraitists, like …
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Read a selection of David duChemin’s favorite quotes here.
Read other top photographers favorite quotes here.
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Joyce Tenneson provides quick candid answers to 20 questions
What’s the best thing about photography?
Meeting new and interesting people.
What’s the worst thing about photography?
People always ask about equipment first!
What’s the thing that interests you most about your own photographs?
It’s like looking at a diary…I can see who I was 10, 20 and 30 years ago!
What’s the thing that interests you most about other people’s photographs?
Seeing how other photographers problem solve, particularly with the content of their portraits.
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Find out more about Joyce Tenneson here.
John Sexton provides quick candid answers to 20 questions
How do you know when an image doesn’t work?
I know an image is not successful for me when, after a period of time, it does seem to produce any sort of what I call a “magic quotient.”
How do you know when an image is good?
I know an image is good for me when I find myself wanting to look at it again and again.
How do you know when an image is great?
I know an image is great for me when I can’t get it out of my mind.
What’s the most useful photographic mantra?
Photographs are illusions.
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Find out more about John Sexton here.