Live Photography is About Life
I can tell you exactly how I felt standing on a sand dune in Morocco many years ago, watching my wife photograph…
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Theory
How Photography Works In My Head #3: Why Some Photographers Can’t Write About Their Work
Photography education and criticism privilege verbal articulation. You’re expected to be able to explain your work, discuss your influences, articulate your intentions,…
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I Stole Every Photograph I’ve Ever Taken
Not legally, though we’ll get to the murky ethics of that. I mean conceptually, technically, aesthetically. Every image I’ve made is somewhere…
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How Photography Works In My Head #2: The Visualisers and the Engineers
Ansel Adams talked about pre-visualisation as the foundation of his photographic method. He could see the final print before making the exposure,…
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The Four Kinds of Photography (And Why Their Collapse Is More Dangerous Than AI)
Photography isn’t one thing anymore. It hasn’t been for a while, but we’re still using the same word for fundamentally different activities,…
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How Photography Works In My Head #1: Anendophasia, Aphantasia, and Photography
Most people assume everyone thinks the same way they do. They imagine that when you say “picture this in your mind,” everyone…
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Abandoning Prettiness Example
On my way back from Lyon recently, I experimented with trying to convey meaning over prettiness.
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Photography Requires Presence
Photography requires something other arts don’t: you have to be there. A thing happens, a camera records it, but you (or your…
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The Hardening Line Away From Pretty Pictures
Out of cycle post. This is something I’ve been noticing and I’ve been trying to articulate for a while. I’m not sure…
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The problem With Infinite Photography
In today’s near infinite storage space, it’s easy to lose track of the photos you take. You stop seeing any of them…
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