Prime Lenses Episode 43 — Arun Venkatesan
Om Malik’s favorite photos of 2024
“My photographic quest is to evolve slowly, finding that fine line between abstraction and reality. My images must exist at the edge of color and monochromatic…”
Daniel Agee’s Good Fight Press announcement
“When Tom and I first met over a decade ago, we talked about two things over lunch — we each had our ideas. Tom’s idea? What would become Glass. The other? The thing I’m leaving Glass to focus on with more time and intention.”
Carla-Jean Stokes’ thread in response to “when is photography art?”
“I don’t think ‘art’ is what all photographers strive for, or even need to strive for.
Most war photographers are/were not seeking to make art, for example.
Their work is still significant, because art is not the pinnacle of visual culture.
Visual culture needn't be viewed as a pyramid.”
Full Stack Whatever Episode 39 — Om Malik: The Joy of the Creative Input
Leica Conversations — Matt Day
Stephen Pulvirent’s print FAQ page
#18 — Dream Car
“But I understand the appeal. The car as freedom. The car as potential. The car as the American Dream. A box of limitless possibility parked right in the driveway. For many, a car is a self-portrait in motion, a symbol of who they are—or who they want to be.”
“A good photograph of a classic car shouldn’t focus on the car alone. It should illuminate the world around it, the time and place it inhabits. A dream car by itself is inert. It must be in dialogue with its surroundings, in a conspiracy with its space.”
Why you need to crop your photos
The Grey NATO – 295 – Photographer And Director Gajan Balan
Postcard 051 — Unclogging the Brain
“The fact that I’m picking up the camera and using it gets me closer to more photos that I’ll take and revisit throughout the years.”
The Social Photo: Nathan Jurgenson and Annebella Pollen in conversation
Persona Sessions — Minnow Park
“You’ll see yourself in new ways.”
“So you can say a person is not just about how they look or what they do, but what sounds through them–their soul, their energy, and the stories they inhabit as they move through the world.“
Alan Schaller’s interview with Leica
How does film actually work? — Smarter Every Day 258
Om Malik and Chris Michel’s #StayHomewithLeica episode
yesterday happened tomorrow
It shifts the time spent going through and evaluating images away from the moments when they are being taken to the next day, which presumably is meant to help preserve the integrity of the experience being documented rather than burdening it with the self-awareness of how well it is coming across on the screen. The photos aren’t made “social” by posting them to a feed or snapping them directly to a person or group; instead their sociality is in how they behave as one part in a larger gallery of themed shots.
The story behind this photograph
Lauren meeting Vice President Joe Biden, 2019. Here’s a little story behind this photograph of my wife and Joe Biden During the Democratic primary season my wife and I attended a number of ev…
On the Usefulness of Photography
Taking at least one photo a day is a common concept among new photographers, but it’s really worthwhile for everyone. There’s an aesthetic component to this: Searching for a good photo in the every-day of life teaches us to notice our surroundings more. “A camera is a device for learning how to see without a camera.” —Dorothea Lange but I think often it’s the opposite. Practicing photography compels you to ponder what is meaningful and beautiful in your surroundings.
Andy Schneider’s “Milky Way above trees” photo
Milky Way above trees – Download this photo by Your Friend Andy on Unsplash
Video editing comes to Darkroom
Today we’re launching app-wide support for editing videos in Darkroom, available to all our existing and new subscribers. This is one of…
Behzod’s photography wallpapers
as I’ve been dealing with the situation at hand, I’ve found solace in making things.
New York Was Not Designed for Emptiness
— crucial players keeping the engines of the city at a quiet hum.
Where Theory Meets Chalk, Dust Flies
Wynne said in an email. “Their imagination guides them and they see images first, not words. They see pictures before meaning.”
Jason’s NTSOL photos section
Cloud Painting
Explore this photo titled Cloud Painting by Dewang Gupta (@Dewang-Gupta) on 500px
11/14/19’s Wallcat photo
Chrysanthemum – Download this photo by Peter Oswald on Unsplash
brown and gray skies
Download this photo by Oscar Söderlund on Unsplash
Martirene Alcantara’s “myths” series
Love in the Time of Instagram
it's just so much easier for us to broadcast our love now. He is ambivalent about the medium of social photography, arguing that the technology is only a tool that exposes existing fractures in the community and the self. As Jean Baudrillard predicted in the middle of the 20th century, the camera went from changing the way we remember to changing the way we see. To my son and daughters, when you read this one day: I see you and I love you with that eye too.