so many topics get discussed here, that it sometimes makes my head spin…but, it all pretty much centers on "the photographic life" and how we can all best "live it"…yes, the photographs themselves are indeed our final "net worth", yet getting to these photographs , this incomparable journey, is an entity in and of itself… …
"commitment" is almost nobody’s favorite word…. "freedom", "fly", "space" seem to be more comfy life "key words"….easier for one thing…and whole supporting philosophies to go along with them….but, as we all know, at some point anyway, only through commitments do we get anything done at all either personally or professionally… last …
this is just a guess, but i am imagining that most of the readers here do not have children…at least not small children requiring lots of care or certainly not new babies…we do discusss so many topics involving our work and our respective careers, but i do not think we have spoken much about …
Mike waiting for me to finish this post..the boy wants to hit the road!!!!!! i must check out of my Iowa motel right now….heading for Chicago or somewhere near Chicago…i was reading comments, looking at links and made the comment below….i decided this might make a good post , so here it is: HELLO …
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 …
"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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
