The Future of the Photo Festival in the Covid Age – LENSCRATCH

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The Future of the Photo Festival in the Covid Age – LENSCRATCH

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry – Emily Dickinson  As a photographer, editor, and publisher I have had the good fortune of seeing a lot of photography. I came to photography through an education in drawi

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Ms. Dickinson has expressed precisely what keeps me looking at pictures – I keep looking to find a repetition of that feeling as if ‘the top of my head were taken off’.  You may have felt that too at some point in your practice or collecting — at least I hope you have. It is sometimes expressed as the difference between a photograph that is akin to illustration and a photograph that carries the impact of art.