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I found this video featuring some thoughts by Gus Powell via Nick Turpin‘s site I linked to yesterday. I really like where he talks about street photography being an additive process. When it’s really clicking, that’s exactly how it should … Continue reading
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When I came upon these two waiting by a car park in DC, the gentleman on the right was singing a real stirring bluesy vocal. Unfortunately, when I happened upon them he was just finishing, so I didn’t have time … Continue reading
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It’s election day here in my home town of Saint John–municipal elections for mayor and council. It’s funny–I’m fairly politically aware, and I even have volunteered for various political campaigns over the last 10 years. But when it comes to … Continue reading
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“A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. Like a wood fire in a room, photographs–especially those of people, of distant landscapes and faraway cities, of the vanished past–are incitements to reverie” – Susan Sontag from On … Continue reading
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Over the next few days, you can expect some photos from my trip to Washington, DC. I didn’t have a lot of time to shoot the city, and I pretty much stuck to a few streets near my hotel and … Continue reading
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“I began to wonder – I knew I was an artist or wanted to be one – but I was wondering whether I really was an artist. I was doing such ordinary things that I could feel the difference. Most … Continue reading
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“In the end it all comes down to this: you have a choice (or more accurately a rolling tangle of choices) between giving your work your best shot and risking that it will not make you happy, or not giving … Continue reading
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“Being a photographer is making people look at what I want them to look at.” – Ruth Orkin That might’ve been true for Ruth Orkin, but I’m not so sure it applies to all photography. It’s more than just making … Continue reading
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Random links. I don’t like every photo Dan Winters makes, but when I like them I like them a lot. Springsteen’s SXSW keynote is worth a listen. Joerg Colberg wrote a really popular blog post about how to make a … Continue reading
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When the day started today, I didn’t think we were going to get any good light at all. Now, I know photographers like this kind of light–especially a particular brand of portrait photographer, but not me. I want light like … Continue reading
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I linked to a Martin Parr blog post a couple of entries ago where he mentioned the bent lamp post as a photographic cliche. I realized a lot of my photographs lately contain bent or off kilter sign posts, but … Continue reading
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“I looked around at what my colleagues were doing, and asked myself, ‘What relationship has it with what’s going on?’ I found there was a great distortion of contemporary life. Photographers were interested only in certain things. A visually interesting … Continue reading