Photographer Focus #10: Christine Spengler
Christine Spengler’s first camera wasn’t hers. It was her brother Éric’s. A Nikon with a 28mm wide-angle, the kit of a fashion…
Read more →Christine Spengler’s first camera wasn’t hers. It was her brother Éric’s. A Nikon with a 28mm wide-angle, the kit of a fashion…
Read more →I’ve spent a lot of words arguing that the ordinary is enough. To me, documenting your own life is the most interesting…
Read more →I wasn’t aware of Sabine Weiss until she appeared in one of my deep dives about humanist photographers. One of her most…
Read more →The image the world calls the first photograph is nearly invisible, undecipherable. Looking at it, most people can’t see anything clearly identifiable.…
Read more →Capa was on Omaha Beach under fire on the morning of D-Day, the 6th June 1944, putting himself in danger to make…
Read more →I first came across Gerda Taro’s work years ago as I was investigating claims that Capa didn’t actually land on Omaha Beach…
Read more →As I was writing this series that is unintentionally turning into a “women photographing war” series, I’ve been thinking about Catherine Leroy.…
Read more →The number of women war photographers is incredible. I wasn’t expecting to fins so many. I’m only going to cover some of…
Read more →I’ve seen a number of people creating curated lists of Substack photography newsletters lately. Some are just blunt lists that are hard…
Read more →I hadn’t planned to make a series on women war photographers. When I started looking into Lee Miller, I found references to…
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.