The Life of Others
I took this photo a good while back. I was arriving in Paris by train, and a commuter train overtook us (for…
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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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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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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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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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Street Photography Makes Me Uncomfortable mk2
I was re-reading some of my old posts lately because I’ve started work on a mini book based on my Substack posts’…
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