photographic essays

photographic essays

how the west was won….

    around 30,000 years ago the descendants of the Navajo and Apache tribes of New Mexico crossed the Bering Sea from Siberia and became nomadic tribes hunting freely in the fecund mountains and desert where the trendy town of Santa Fe now sits…. Europeans whose culture was far more "advanced" by the 16th century …

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“goin’ to hell”….

"I just don’t know how long I can take it down here anymore. Too much traffic nowadays, too many tourists. They have overbuilt the beach. When I came down here, things were different.The place is goin’ to hell"    the look on Michael Halminski’s  face when he says this, reflects both pain and confusion…..the old …

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self-portrait selection…..

Les   David   Suryo Wibowo ok, we have the three best forum self-portraits as curated by Magnum photographer Chris Anderson….Chris said he chose these because of "their overall photographic quality, sense of humor, and the intelligence that went into them"…..there is  a link below to the 37 photographs from which he chose… these were …

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sunset over Manhattan….

HELLO ALL… i am having the most amazing afternoon…the sun is setting over lower Manhattan..such a cliché…Mike and Marie are here and we are having a rollicking good time….i asked them to do a "screening" of the self portraits you submitted, none of which i had seen before….as you know, i have been pretty busy …

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slide shows….

please check under the "Movies" section off of the "Home Page" here to see an upload of both the Emerging Photographers and Photographic Essay student workshop slide shows presented at the Look3 Festival last week….we sized this to play easily , but you will still have a significant download time since they are each about …

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self portrait…..

there is probably not a photographer alive who has not taken a stab at self portraiture…Cindy Sherman and Arno Minkkinen aside, most of us have at least “played” at taking our own photograph… with our community here growing stronger by the day, i think it would just be fun to see what everyone “looks like”..some …

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f/8 and be there…

Tangier Island,Virginia 1972                                          Fisherman and Wife   maybe photographers are not really the largest group of procrastinators in the world , and maybe i just sometimes think this because i am around so many photographers…but, some photographers do have a way of …

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talk to james nachtwey….

                                                                           please post your questions for James Nachtwey here…i should be able to "go live" with Jim at about 2:30 this afternoon  New York time…. Jim will probably not answer …

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random….

most of you are right now either working on personal essays or are trying to think of a suitable project…we chat so much here about essays, connecting pictures, editing for either concept or story, and are generally thinking of a "whole"…. me too…just like many of  you, i am  right now trying to get a …

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stop!!!!

ok, please, no more phone calls or e-mails to Karen Mullarkey!!!  the woman is overwhelmed…Karen  says her e-mail is on total overload…her computer is smoking!!! she cannot handle any  more portfolios or inquiries from us  at this point… from now on , if we get a request like this, i think i will have to …

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