Video: Photojournalist Bill Eppridge Compares Obama and RFK

Click on the video above to see PDN products editor Dan Havlik's interview with photojournalist Bill Eppridge at the PhotoPlus Expo in New York. Eppridge spoke about covering Robert F. Kennedy's assassination, switching from film to digital, and his impressions of Barack Obama's campaign.

More videos from the PhotoPlus Expo are now on PDNOnline.

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Comments

[daniel]

thanks for the interview. My gripe is how can you not have good light on your subject? And to have better light on the interviewer? Where is the LIGHT? This is basic photography. It makes you look really bad to have such low production values on a video with a legend of photography.

[jason groupp]

AWESOME video Dan from a legend in the photo community. I loved listening to the way he describes photojournalism.

[anonymous]

Bill Eppridge is a living legend. I greatly appreciate this interview and his insight always. But I must say that this would have been better served as an audio clip only. The poor video quality and awkward facial expressions are distracting.

[BrianT]

Great video. Thanks for getting it up there PDN.

[angel]

I really enjoyed this--Bill Eppridge's story is riveting, and I think the interviewer asked the perfect questions to get the story out. Keep up the good work.

[anonymous]

I agree with the above comments about the quality. The lighting is awful, the background noise is distracting and the people wandering around in the background seem to be more in focus than the subjects. The facial ticks of the interviewer are also annoying. Eppridge is a legend and should be treated as such.

[Jack]

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[Daryl Lang]

Tough crowd! Jack, thanks for the constructive suggestion about lighting. For this video, Dan and I had limited time with Bill in a dimly lit convention center. This is web video on a shoestring. Our options included killing the interview, publishing it as text only, or doing our best with what we had. I think we made the right call.

But never mind us, what do you think of Bill Eppridge?

[Andrew Darlow]

Thanks Dan for a great interview. I wish it had been a bit longer (I know how trade shows can make longer interviews difficult).

Thanks to your interview, I then searched for more about Mr. Eppridge and learned about some of the events that he's covered over the years. To have photographed the Beatles on their first tour must have been something.

I will now add Mr. Eppridge's website (http://www.billeppridge.com) to my RSS reader as well.

All the best,

Andrew
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[Steve G Bisig Photography]

Great interview. For me, the content (audio) was what was important vs. the video. I had to laugh when Bill Eppridge talked about SI will never go digital. How times have changed. - Steve

[Dave Jones]

The audio is good. I listened to it and stopped looking at the filming becuae it was so annoying.Really bad filming and lighting.

[huckster]

All nitpicks aside -- the lighting blah blah blah the lighting blah blah blah and did I mention the lighting? -- this was a compelling video interview with a master and something we need more of on PDN and elsewhere. Thanks.