Interview with Naqeeb Stevens

So I thought that the interview assignment would be a lot more painful than it actually turned out to be. I interviewed Naqeeb Stevens and we ended up having a really good experience with it. I got to learn a lot about what it was like for him as a student and photographer. We talked for a while before the actual taping of the interview so the video sometimes seems more like a conversation. Naqeeb is interested in getting a narrative from his photographs. Sometimes he succeeds with a single photograph and other times his narration comes with a series of photographs. He talks about his decisions in capturing narratives around 2:45min of the video. This is the photograph that is specifically talked about.



At 6:40min we talked about his participation in the BFA show with an abstract video commenting on social networking. I asked him about the concept behind it and his view on using abstraction in his work. He basically feels that he will use abstraction if it is necessary in what he is trying to depict.

I show some photographs at 8:44min that he printed from his camera phone and talked about the quality of the photographs and what makes them interesting due to the convenience and availability of the camera.