The Photo Essay Was Not the Magazine

When I started taking photography seriously, I was taking single photos. At most, I’d go back to the same place over and over again (e.g. Aberdeen beach) but each visit would be separate from the previous ones. It worked for…
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The Photo Essay Was Not the Magazine

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The Life of Others

I took this photo a good while back. I was arriving in Paris by train, and a commuter train overtook us (for some reason I was allegedly in…

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Clichés Are More Important Than They Appear

We’ve all been beginners one day. And we’ve all been criticised for creating cliché photographs. The implication is that clichés shows a failure of originality, something to get…

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Project Mid-Life 52 #2

It’s not easy to get organised for a year-long project. I made a catalog of ideas for each category, some of them already outdated or no longer relevant,…

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Paws in the sand

I posted this photo last week as my contribution to Aminus3’s photo prompt: minimal. I thought I might as well explain it here.

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