I’m not a huge Ira Glass/This American Life fan, but this was pretty good commentary about the struggle to do good work and not to get discouraged about the yawning gap between your own creative standards or desires and your own, usually disappointing, creative output in the early stages of effort.
Errol Morris has posted one of his infrequent marathon essays on his NY Times blog, Zoom. This one is a deep, deep dive into the meaning and circumstances behind one of the most chilling photographs to come out of Abu Ghraib, that of a grinning female soldier throwing the thumbs up sign while hovering above [...]
Each year, NY features several gallery- and collector-oriented photography events such as AIPAD or equipment-focused events like the PhotoPlus Expo. They tend to be light on the sorts of craft-oriented or theoretical discussions I lean towards. When I heard about things like the month-long festivals in Toronto (CONTACT) or Atlanta (ACP), I always wondered why [...]
When you have the impulse to make a picture, follow it as quickly as you can. You might not get another chance. As a father, you would think I learned this by watching my son grow up, leaving each phase of childhood behind, never to be seen again. But that’s a slow, nearly imperceptible process, [...]
The Internet meme is a wonderful thing. I couldn’t sleep tonight and got up to browse what the Internet was thinking, in the form of the del.icio.us popular links. One of the top links tonight was a link-bait post from Mental Floss entitled “Only the Creepiest Photos Ever Taken“, a short overview of Victorian death [...]
It’s hard to keep up with the slew of new photography-related blogs that keep popping up. As more and more people start taking up the blog, so to speak, the subject matter is getting more specialized. A bunch of the more recent finds have more to do with the business side of photography, relating to [...]
