Photography instruction assumes cognitive uniformity. Teachers describe their own process and expect students to replicate it. “Learn to see the light.” “Pre-visualise…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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On my way back from Lyon recently, I experimented with trying to convey meaning over prettiness.
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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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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…
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.