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…
Read more →Gear Acquisition Syndrome operates on a simple mechanism: attributing the limitations in my work to the limitations of my tools. When I…
Read more →On paper, photography looks like a bad coping strategy. You take a heavy thing with you out the door, walk around, and…
Read more →Photographers will tell you a good photograph needs to stand on its own. No explanation, no supporting text; what’s in the frame…
Read more →Digital photography gave us something film never had: an instant undo button for our own judgement. See an image on the back…
Read more →We’re wired to look for faces. Show someone a photograph with people in it and their eyes go straight to the faces,…
Read more →The ongoing challenge in teaching photography to a young person is protecting them from gear culture. Marketing is sophisticated and pervasive. Social…
Read more →Over the past few weeks or months, I’ve noticed more and more people in the photography community sharing their zine experiments online.…
Read more →I recently reviewed my library of posts and it gave me an idea. What began here as a random series of posts…
Read more →When you photograph someone and they notice you, something changes in both of you. For them, it’s brief: a moment of self-consciousness,…
Read more →My father died of cancer in November. After the funeral, the paperwork, the strange silence that follows all of that, my doctor…
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.