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 been taking photos of benches for years. Sometimes on purpose because I find them intriguing and I have an thing for…
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 →Before you push the shutter button, before even you leave the house, everything has been decided. You might not have a list…
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 →Photographers often pride themselves on knowing who they are and what they do. In fact, a lot of us believe that it…
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 →I used to believe my photography time was precious, which meant every outing had to count. If I couldn’t imagine the shot…
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 →There is nothing that separates a password mugshot from a photography master piece: you can use the same camera for both, the…
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.