Photos I Found #2: Spain August 1966 #2
This is the second instalment of my found photos series and also the second Spain 1966 episode.
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How Photography Works In My Head #3: Why Some Photographers Can’t Write About Their Work
Photography education and criticism privilege verbal articulation. You’re expected to be able to explain your work, discuss your influences, articulate your intentions,…
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I Stole Every Photograph I’ve Ever Taken
Not legally, though we’ll get to the murky ethics of that. I mean conceptually, technically, aesthetically. Every image I’ve made is somewhere…
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Photos I Found #1: Spain August 1966 #1
I like to get my hands on photographs that people have discarded. These meant something to someone at some point, and it…
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How Photography Works In My Head #2: The Visualisers and the Engineers
Ansel Adams talked about pre-visualisation as the foundation of his photographic method. He could see the final print before making the exposure,…
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The Four Kinds of Photography (And Why Their Collapse Is More Dangerous Than AI)
Photography isn’t one thing anymore. It hasn’t been for a while, but we’re still using the same word for fundamentally different activities,…
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Kodak DC200 (ca. 1998-1999)
Josh Warner posted on Substack photos he took with a Kodak DC210A he bought for next to nothing on a flee market.…
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How Photography Works In My Head #1: Anendophasia, Aphantasia, and Photography
Most people assume everyone thinks the same way they do. They imagine that when you say “picture this in your mind,” everyone…
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Abandoning Prettiness Example
On my way back from Lyon recently, I experimented with trying to convey meaning over prettiness.
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Photography Requires Presence
Photography requires something other arts don’t: you have to be there. A thing happens, a camera records it, but you (or your…
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