Photography instruction assumes cognitive uniformity. Teachers describe their own process and expect students to replicate it. “Learn to see the light.” “Pre-visualise…
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I can tell you exactly how I felt standing on a sand dune in Morocco many years ago, watching my wife photograph…
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This is the second instalment of my found photos series and also the second Spain 1966 episode.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Most people assume everyone thinks the same way they do. They imagine that when you say “picture this in your mind,” everyone…
Read more →A software engineer looking 50 in the eye. Photography picked up over 20 years ago, then set aside as life intervened — and recently returned to, with a deliberate focus on monochrome. Also drawn to found negatives: rolls of film abandoned by strangers, full of lives worth rescuing from obscurity.