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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Teaching Photography #6: Ongoing: Assignments That Build Vision
After the first six weeks, my niece will have foundation: purpose, seeing, basic technical control. Now the teaching moves from building fundamentals…
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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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Teaching Photography #5: Introducing Technical Control
My niece has spent four weeks photographing on full automatic. She understands what photography is for, she’s developed her eye, she knows…
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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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