GAS Lives Between Expectation and Reality
Gear Acquisition Syndrome operates on a simple mechanism: attributing the limitations in my work to the limitations of my tools. When I…
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May is Mental Health Month
On paper, photography looks like a bad coping strategy. You take a heavy thing with you out the door, walk around, and…
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Separating the Photograph from Its Birth
Photographers will tell you a good photograph needs to stand on its own. No explanation, no supporting text; what’s in the frame…
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Never Delete Any Photo
Digital photography gave us something film never had: an instant undo button for our own judgement. See an image on the back…
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Faces Don’t Matter
We’re wired to look for faces. Show someone a photograph with people in it and their eyes go straight to the faces,…
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Teaching Photography #7: Keeping Gear in Its Place
The ongoing challenge in teaching photography to a young person is protecting them from gear culture. Marketing is sophisticated and pervasive. Social…
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Photography Zine Exchange Launch
Over the past few weeks or months, I’ve noticed more and more people in the photography community sharing their zine experiments online.…
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The Book That Started as a Newsletter
I recently reviewed my library of posts and it gave me an idea. What began here as a random series of posts…
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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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