Interviews with Photographers
Read the interviews with some of our prominent photographers, designers and gallery directors. Currently most interviews are available in German only. Scroll through the list and reload frequently to find content in different languages.
Nadav Kander
"I just photograph as the best I can"
As if he had scanned the President: The London based photographer Nadav Kander was entrusted with portraying Barack Obama and his team. SeenBy.com talked to him about the significance of tranquility, his German role models, and BlackBerry®s.
Nick Brandt
„We shouldn`t give up“
He was directing the video of Michael Jacksons „Earth Song“ - and fell in love with the east african animal kingdom. seenby.com spoke to photographer Nick Brandt about the fascination of wild places, the massacre of elephants and the new colonialists of Africa.
Kids with Cameras
„Children from redlight-district“
They don`t have any chance and much less in India: the children of prostitutes. Photographer and filmmaker Zana Briski took notice of them, won an Academy Award for her documentation „Born into Brothels“ and founded the organisation „Kids with Cameras.“ The director Lisa Robinson talks about the beauty of grim circumstances, the power of art and the hard work of raising money for the kids of Calcutta.
Joakim Eskildsen
"Apartheid in Europe"
Tolerance is a luxury product. When times get tough, it gets scarce. Then people like to kick out at others. Scapegoats are required, preferably from the fringe of society. In Hungary the right-wing extremists are now mobilising to agitate against the Roma. Danish apartheid critic Joakim Eskildsen has recorded the daily life of this minority people.
Paolo Roversi
The Secret of Feminine Beauty
In haute couture or uncovered: they gladly pose in front of his lens - top models like Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell, and stars like Catherine Deneuve and Carla Bruni. Paolo Roversi, counted as one of the world’s most sought-after fashion photographers, isn’t just interested in superficial aesthetics, but in his portraits he searches out the mysterious charm of his models...
Massimo Vitali
The Beach Sociologist
Top Italian photographer Massimo Vitali studies people’s leisure activities - preferably in places where they occur in crowds. He spoke to SeenBy.com about the visual noise of the beach.
Jonathan Torgovnik
The Enemy in the Child
Rape is considered as personal shame and often leads to social ostracism of the victims. Thousands of women in Rwanda are enduring this - they were abused in 1994 by Hutu militaries and became pregnant. SeenBy.com spoke to photographer Jonathan Torgovnik, who has turned his attention to these women and their children...
Janne Lehtinen
The Night Shift Photographer
Janne Lehtinen from Finland spent a year wandering by night with his camera through his hometown of Kotka, searching for its soul - and documented how globalisation is changing industrial cities.
Mohamed Bourouissa
Enemy of the state becomes object of art
The suburban youth of Paris, violently suppressed in the autumn of 2005 by Nicolas Sarkozy, then Minister of Internal Affairs, are now conquering galleries and museums as protagonists in the work of photographer Mohamed Bourouissa.
Arno Fischer
The irresistible urge to capture something
His pictures defined the image of postwar Berlin: Marlene Dietrich wearing mink, the crack in the firewall, protests in the east, capitalists in the west. That’s why Arno Fischer has been called "Germany’s most famous unknown photographer". He was born in 1927 in Berlin and worked in close association with colleagues such as Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Josef Koudelka. In this interview he tells us how he set up his niche in East Germany with his wife Sibylle Bergemann - and why he isn’t particularly fond of today’s "pixel slingers".
Susan Hiller
Memorial or Mistake?
Baker Street, Smith Lane, Jews’ Alley - street names that appear in many German towns and are forgotten by all as soon as they see them. But American Susan Hiller didn’t know how to react when she encountered a street sign in Berlin titled "Jüdenstrasse" (Jew Street). The result of her irritation is the "J Street Project", which is currently being exhibited in the art hall of the German Federal Parliament.
Olaf Heine
Fame is insignificant
Celebrities love his photos: Sting, Heike Makatsch, Franka Potente - Olaf Heine has had all of them in front of his camera. In this interview, the photographer explains what his work has to do with rock and roll - and how he got the idea to dress up hard-core rappers as monks.
