Trendspotting at Photoville

Trendspotting at Photoville

Take a bare strip of land on the Brooklyn waterfront, throw in some shipping containers, add lashings of photography and a generous pinch of the Brooklyn hipster vibe, and what do you get? The answ…

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One of the most interesting ideas Ritchin floated (and which is in his new book, ‘Bending the Frame’) was that photography should move from being reactive to proactive. In other words, instead of photographing in the wake of crisis, photographers should anticipate crisis and visualize it in order to prevent it from happening. He called this ‘Photography of the Future.’