Communicate Your Strengths to Get Respect is an article that makes a good point about communicating our strengths as photographers. What message is your work sending? Your photos? Your website? Is it the message you want to be sending? Are the photographs on your website the type of photos you’d want a client to hire [...]
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Happy Hanukkah and a Happy New Year to everyone out there. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to share my work and thoughts with you all and taking the time to read and comment on my blog throughout the year. I appreciate it and if I could I’d send you all [...]
The best thing about editing is coming back to old work and finding photos you passed over in the initial edit. The worst? The pain of looking at a lot of bad photos. Must rest my eyes. A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be [...]
I’m sure every photographer knows this feeling, but today I hate my work. Yesterday I may have liked it, but it doesn’t matter much because today I hate it. As the summer has progressed I’ve felt like I’ve been riding an emotional elevator when it comes to dealing with our prison project. Some days I’m [...]
When I started the project on mental illness in prison, I was hoping that a lot of people outside of the photo world would have the opportunity to see it. Although it has only been published on my website at this point, I am seeing how something can go “viral”. When the project first launched [...]
I’ve been spending some time looking at new work the past couple days and find it interesting how different photographers edit and present their work. For example a lot of photographers doing the portrait thing for magazines seem to use generic titles for their portfolios such as Portfolio 1, Portfolio 2, etc. I recall reading [...]
After a few days of trying to gather up images for College Photographer of the Year(CPOY) I don’t know left from right anymore or good images from bad. Although in my case it’s been easier to spot bad images since I seem pretty good at making those. The only given it feels like is that [...]
The first question I asked when trying to define documentary photography was what is the difference between documentary photography and photography in its broadest term? Aren’t all photographs visually documenting something? Aren’t all photographs visual explorations and visual expressions? Other than commercial, when does a photograph begin to fit into the documentary category? Documentary in [...]