Here’s a round-up of Brian Smith’s interviews about photography. Read his advice for a successful photography career and how to get paid for shooting what you love to shoot. Smith talks about his transition from sports photography to shooting celebrity portrait photography. Get his best advice for maintaining a healthy photography business. Read what he believes about the value of shooting personal photo projects. He shares which photographers who’ve influenced his career and talks about his love of photography books and his favorite photography books.
ADVANCED PHOTOGRAPHY
Shivanand Sharman’s featured photographer interview of Brian Smith on begins with questions of how he got his first break in photography and the stages of his career that followed.
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BEST OF ASMP INTERVIEW
ASMP selects’ Brian Smith’ celebrity portrait photography advocacy project as one of the Best of ASMP for 2009. Read about the project an what the organizers hope to accomplish.
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FOTOFLOCK INTERVIEW
Brian Smith is interviewed by Anna Pande of Fotoflock.com about his career and influences in photography and his transition from sports photography to shooting portraits of celebrities.
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PHOTOSHELTER INTERVIEW
Editorial Photographers president Brian Smith shares his advice on the Business of Editorial Photography in this PhotoShelter article.
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WHAT MAKES YOU CLICK?
Miami Herald staff photographer Al Diaz ask Brian for his keys to success, ways photographers can raise their game and who influenced his photography career.
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ASMP Q&A WITH BRIAN SMITH
After speaking to photographers from ASMP in Washington, DC, Editorial Photographers president Brian Smith answers ASMP DC photographers’ questions about the Business of Editorial Photography.
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BURLESQUE DAILY INTERVIEW
Jo “Boobs” Weldon, headmistress of the New York School of Burlesque, asks Brian how he became interested in photographing burlesque starting with his first shoot of burlesque legend Dixie Evans.
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LEAF USER INTERVIEW
Leaf User magazine’s ‘Brian Smith Celebrity and Star Athlete Portrait Photographer’, looks at his broad range of work was honed during his 10 years as a news photographer, culminating in the Pulitzer Prize.
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PHOTOGRAPHY BOOK NOW
Photography Book Now juror and photo book author Brian Smith talks about his love of photo books and lists a few of his favorites.
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ASMP RAW FILE INTERVIEW
Ethan G. Salwen asks Brian how he deals with client requests for un-processed RAW files and why he believes it’s better for the photographer to process the job in this ASMP article “Separation Anxiety”.
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EMERGING PHOTOGRAPHER
Sony’s Emerging Photographer magazine asks Brian about his biggest challenges and which websites, books, magazines and blogs he reads for ideas, inspiration and news of the photo industry.
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LOWEPRO INTERVIEW
In ‘The Art of Personality’, LowePro talks with celebrity portrait photographer Brian Smith about his tips to successful portrait photography and about shooting the celebrity portraits for his book ‘Art & Soul’
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RESOURCE MAGAZINE
An essay about the value of personal photography projects and how sometimes we all need to be reminded of the lessons that got us where we are.
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