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Winter New York City Workshop Feb 28 – March 1

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I don’t often talk about my workshops on this blog, but I wanted to bring your attention to this 3-Day Intensive in New York City…

Photo Critique Of The Week…Steve Simon

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This video post originally appeared on Patreon. Unlock a wealth of photo information designed to make you a better photographer and for a limited…

CLOSING THE GAP

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From my own experience as a photography educator and workshop leader, I have seen and heard this same scenario often—photographers describe their excitement for…

HURRY UP & WAIT

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So what exactly is a volume of work and how do you define it? For a large-format photographer, the idea of volume may be…

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No Shortcuts To Mastery

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Yousuf Karsh spent a lifetime perfecting his portrait lighting techniques. Here are Yousuf and me, graduation day, Dawson Institute of Photography, Montreal—at the beginning…

Seeing The Future

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“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.” Henri Cartier-Bresson Photography is a bit like trying to see the future, to trigger the shutter before…

VOLUME, VOLUME,VOLUME: 10,000 HOURS: PRACTICE & PERSISTENCE

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It wasn’t just the media; it seemed everyone at The Republican Convention in New York City, 2004, was taking pictures. This is one of…

ACTION PASSION: A BRAINSTORMING EXERCISE FOR STORY/PROJECT IDEAS

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“Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion…the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.”  Dorothea Lange What can’t you help…