1 We all borrow from the photographers we admire, but after a volume of work, we leave their path and carve out a new one of our own. When you see a group of photographers all shooting from the same vantage point, shoot quick and then run the other way and find your own camera position.
1 I liken the process of shooting a volume of images to riding a roller coaster. At first it seems the process is going slow. You are in the open car, slowly making your way to the top of the tracks.
Perhaps the poster boy for shooting volumes is street photographer Garry Winogrand. When he died of cancer at the age of just 56 in…
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…
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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…
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…
1 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…
“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…
A quick tour through the Nikon Museum in Tokyo.
