Photography Changes You Through Others
When you photograph someone and they notice you, something changes in both of you. For them, it’s brief: a moment of self-consciousness,…
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The Joys of Medical Imaging
My father died of cancer in November. After the funeral, the paperwork, the strange silence that follows all of that, my doctor…
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Teaching Photography #6: Ongoing: Assignments That Build Vision
After the first six weeks, my niece will have foundation: purpose, seeing, basic technical control. Now the teaching moves from building fundamentals…
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Zine Exchange Club?
There’s a special feeling that comes from holding something you made yourself, something printed or folded or stapled together, knowing it only…
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You’re Programming Your Future Self
Every photograph exists in two phases: the taking and the revisiting. Most photographers never consciously separate them. That’s part of why so…
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Teaching Photography #5: Introducing Technical Control
My niece has spent four weeks photographing on full automatic. She understands what photography is for, she’s developed her eye, she knows…
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Photography as a way to get on with the universe
The universe doesn’t care about us. That’s not pessimism; it’s physics. We’re pattern-seeking creatures dropped into a system operating on principles entirely…
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Teaching Photography #4: How Photographs Communicate
Week four combines analysis with continued practice. My niece has been making photographs for three weeks, and she’s developed intuitions about what…
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The Photographer as Interpreter
Photography has a self-image problem, and it starts with the word “witness.” The term has circulated in photographic theory long enough to…
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Photos I found #8: Winter Holidays
More photos I found. These are probably late winter/early spring holiday photos in the mountains somewhere in France. Easter holidays maybe. Given…
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