Category: Photography

If you’re not festivaled out, you’re going to want to head down to Charlottesville in June, because Look3 seems almost like a photographer’s utopian festival dream. From the 12th to the 14th, all of Charlottesville will be taken over by photography; even the trees (Flip Nicklin’s undersea whale images will be suspended high in the…

For the past 18 months, Lia Halloran has taken her skateboard and wandered the city late at night, looking for the strangest, darkest skate spots she can find. Sometimes alone and sometimes with a photographer, Halloran spends nights haunting the L.A. riverbed, evading the cops in Bronson Canyon or lurking in East L.A. parking lots.…

Sam Cherry sits in the living room of his Fairfax District home, staring at a photograph of Charles Bukowski on the toilet. “Wow, look at that!” Cherry laughs at the look on the writer’s face — one that suggests Buk is struggling through a rather troublesome bowel movement. “He’s really pushing!” A longtime friend of…

I had to share this article as it sums up my feelings towards the raft of “Photojournalists” that have appeared over the last few years. Check it out here.

So in checking on where they are photographers can look to find themselves in one of two existing modes or conditions. One condition might be what we call the Expansion Mode. Check it out here.

I’m pretty much addicted to photography. Methods, gear, news, you name it. It really is kinda scary. To keep my addiction in check when I’m not shooting or shopping, I need a steady flow of photo content to keep the shakes and withdrawl symptoms from popping up so I put together a list of what…

Wedding photographers far and wide completed PDN’s recent income survey, providing a snapshot of how much they earn on average, how hard they work, and how efficiently they run their businesses. In all, 1,098 wedding photographers responded, ranging from those who shoot just a few weddings per year to several who shoot well over 100.…

The web has allowed a whole new range of collaborative photography projects to flourish. Artists teaming up are obviously nothing new, but the ease and instant gratification afforded by the Internet makes for free-flowing ideas around the world to congeal into one artistic idea. Some of these collaborations have found a way to focus on…

Toronto artist Robert Burley is currently documenting the fate of chemical photography, recording the abandonment and demolition of various Kodak plants. The films, papers and processing chemicals these factories produced will soon be obsolete, although Burley himself is still physically printing images from negatives, albeit ones he edits digitally. The most notable of Burley’s large,…

Over the last ten years, the art of photography has undergone a sex change. The rather masculine act of capturing or “shooting” a moment (“the hunt”) with a sound subject and composition has evolved into one where the real art comes in the editing, not the capturing. The initial “kill” gets skinned, dressed and prepared…

Why’s that you ask? To distance myself from my work and constantly ask myself, “What is art?” Is dance an art? Is the dancer or choreographer the artist? Is a landscape painting an art? Is photojournalism an art? Is portrait photography an art? I struggle with these questions constantly and the answers are usually, “No.”…