A Begrudgingly Affectionate Portrait of the American Mall “We’re all being manipulated in the mall,” the photographer Stephen DiRado says. But his photos elicit a certain nostalgia, almost in spite of themselves. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-begrudgingly-affectionate-portrait-of-the-american-mall There’s a reason that the mall’s corporate honchos—who had signed a contract giving him free rein to document…
Photos Capture 1980s Mall Rats in Their Element – Feature Shoot For Mall Series, Massachusetts-based photographer Stephen DiRado preserves a distinctive slice of American culture in the 1980s, chronicling daily life for the Mall Rats of the now-closed Worcester Galleria. via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2014/10/photos-capture-1980s-mall-rats-in-their-element/ For Mall Series, Massachusetts-based photographer Stephen DiRado preserves a distinctive slice…
Stephen DiRado MW What inspired you to start taking photographs, and what have been some of the most important milestones in your career up until now? … Link: http://2waylens.blogspot.com/2013/06/stephen-dirado.html Also I am not afraid to fail because failure breeds success. Strange as it is, making an incredibly bad photograph, and be painfully aware of it,…
