magazine! How do you respond to the exclamatory responses from people?
You have photographed thousands of people. What is the most important endearing feature on the human face?
What are the aspects of picture composition that you keep in mind when doing a portrait shot?
The most important lesson you impart to your students?
Your biggest picture coup?
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Your biggest picture upset?
The picture you have always wanted to shoot?
Beyond the corporate veneer
Had Picasso been reborn as a photographer, he would have been somewhat like Colorado-based David Tejada who has reinterpreted corporate portraiture imbuing it with the vibrant colours of life. Be it a CEO or depicting the intricate features of a miner at work, Tejada lends his unique perspective to his portraits. Tejada will be holding workshops at GPP.
How do you balance the art of photography with commerce as a corporate photographer? Do you have to compromise as a photographer for the sake of being a good businessman?
Things you do for aesthetic appeal in an otherwise strait-laced corporate/industrial subject?
Your corporate pictures are about people in power. Do you endeavour to highlight this aspect of empowerment?
What is your favourite subject?
When doing still life, what are the things you keep in mind for the best results?
Tips for aspiring corporate photographers
Farah Nosh
Documenting life
Canadian-born Farah Nosh of Iraqi origin, is one of those rare fresh breeds of documentary photographers who like to feel and live every situation they photograph and get under the skin of their subject to relive the pain and agony of a war. She has lived in many war zones around the world to be able to do that. A photographer who wants to capture the resilience and triumph of human spirit in the face of the worst crisis. Nosh is also passionate about capturing the last speakers of a language becoming extinct which she did with great success with the speakers of an almost extinct Alaskan language called Haida.
You have documented human pain and suffering from Iraq, to Afghanistan to Palestine, to Lebanon. How different or similar was your experience?
Would you say your depiction of people under siege and victims of violence, captures the silent power of resilience or does it show powerlessness against might?
If pictures speak a thousand words what do your pictures say about the world as we see it today?
How difficult or easy it is to be impervious to human suffering for the sake of documenting it? Is it possible to actually not get involved or affected by the subject of your photographs?
What is large format photography and how did it help you document the life of the last known inhabitants of Alaska speaking the fast-disappearing Haida language?
Your best/most memorable picture so far?
The most poignant moment of your career.
The lessons you have learnt from your career in documentary photography.
