The Republican National Convention 2024
byI have been covering the American Political Convention since 2004 and it’s hard for me to believe that it has been 20 years since…
Personal Project
Healing Waters: Looking Back
byby Michael Swan, The Catholic Register. View Original HERE. Steve Simon knows that one of the best tricks in photography is learning how to…
The American Political Convention
byOk, I’m sure many of us are fixated on the election in the United States today. Whatever happens, my passion for American Politics began…
Happy Canada Day!
byI’m not even sure that all of my American and International friends know that July 1 is Canada Day. Just a few days shy…
1 VOLUME, VOLUME, VOLUME: THE CHALLENGE
byI’ve talked a lot in recent posts about getting through a volume of work and coming out the other side a better and more…
1 Your Photographic Style
byWe 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.
ACTION PASSION: A BRAINSTORMING EXERCISE FOR STORY/PROJECT IDEAS
by“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…
The Photo Essay: A FRAMEWORK
byWe can learn from the classic photo essayists of the past. Many of the early photo stories in Life took a formulary approach. In…
1 THE WRITTEN COMPONENT
byIf photographers were better able to communicate with words, I’m sure many of us might be writers instead.
TWO PILES
by“The hair on the back of you neck will stand up and you’ll know your project.”