I just read a good interview of Peter Menzel, a wonderful photography (National Geographic, GEO Germany, freelance) on Phillip Greenspun’s photo.net site. He talks mainly about how he broke into the photography world, why a degree in photojournalism from Boston University was useless to him, and comments on the letdown that being a NG photography was.
He produced an interesting book, called Material World, which depicts families from around with world pictured with all of their material possetions or a week’s food. His inspiration was drawn from an NPR broadcast speaking about Madonna’s then-recent top-selling biography, which was followed up by the pop singer’s Material World song.
Check out the links to Peter’s gallery. I found the Kuwait oil fire photos especially interesting. There’s a photo of the prince touring an oil fire 3 years after the fire initially began!
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