Photos I Found #5: Winter Celebrations
The next roll of found photos seems to cover winter celebrations. I’d say February. But I don’t know the year.
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How Photography Works In My Head #6: Working With Your Cognitive Style Instead of Against It
Once you understand your cognitive profile, the question becomes what to do with that understanding. You can fight your natural architecture, trying…
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The Two Objects of Photography
There’s a contradiction that’s been nagging at me for years, and I’ve only recently found a way to articulate why it’s a…
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Photos I Found #4: In the Theatre
The next roll of found film is about theatre. The photos seem to have been taken at and around the organisation of…
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How Photography Works In My Head #5: Finding Your People Through Cognitive Style
Your audience self-selects partly based on shared cognitive architecture. This isn’t about intelligence or sophistication. It’s about whether your mode of thinking…
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When You Stop Treating Photography As a Performance, You Can Embrace Your Self Image
My mother sometimes jokes that she raised a ghost, because there are barely any photographs of me as a child or teenager.…
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Photos I Found #3: At the Beach
I don’t have a date or location for these photos. The box doesn’t say anything. Looking at them, I’d say maybe 70s.
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How Photography Works In My Head #4: Teaching Photography to Brains That Work Differently
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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Live Photography is About Life
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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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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