Bigger Than The Game
You hear this a lot, “Nobody is bigger than the game.” This typically refers to a good player, who thinks he or she is a great player and more important than their actual sport. If you have ever hung...
View ArticleHow to Lure a Photographer
Food. Free food. Any kind will do. Or drinks, but food might even be better. In this case I was lucky enough to stumble into some great people while working on a project, people who were in the middle...
View ArticleFive Greatest Photographers of All Time
Even the notion of a post like this is absurd, dangerous, inflammatory, and can cause people to lose their jobs. There have been so many great photographers throughout history that culling down to five...
View ArticleMy Comment on The Melcher System
I just posted this comment on Paul Melcher’s blog, The Melcher System. I really like his blog, and I think he tends to come up with topics that don’t get a lot of play. He looks more at industry trends...
View ArticleThe Pack
Snappers descend on an anti-abortion doll, San Diego political convention, late 1990′s. This photo says a lot about a lot of things, but I’m going to narrow it down to just a few. Perhaps one or two...
View ArticleTungsten
If you don’t know the brothers Regnard, also known as Tungsten, well I think you better take a look. These boys live down under but travel the world in search of many different things as you can see at...
View ArticleCountdown to Peru 2013: Amazon Macaws
The countdown to Peru Workshop 2013 is in full swing and I’m checking in with another post relating to my past Peruvian workshop travels. Last year was my first opportunity to enter the Peruvian...
View ArticleBlurb Down Under: Oculi + Blurb Opening Sydney
Last night we co-hosted an event in Sydney with the photographers of Oculi, a collective based here in Australia. Over the past few months one of our Blurb members, Garry Trinh, worked with Oculi on a...
View ArticlePhoto LA
Okay, how about the world’s latest review. In modern attention span terms, Photo LA happened sometime about 38 BC. But, why not show some photos and give you my reflections? That is the kind of gal I...
View ArticleSydney Now: New Australian Photojournalism
Sydney now: new Australian photojournalism from Historic Houses Trust on Vimeo. What is the deal with me and Australia all of a sudden? Everywhere I look….Australian stuff. I don’t get it. Why now? Why...
View ArticleRecommended Books: Mauskopf and Hetherington
As you know, I now spend much of my “professional” life in the book world. I’m not a designer, publisher or book expert, but I’ve learned much about books in the past five years, and I’ve fully...
View ArticleNorman Mauskopf Interview
Roughly four years ago I was able to partially make the leap to New Mexico. I’d been living in Southern California for nearly fifteen years but my insides were burning for what Gretel Ehrlich refers to...
View ArticleWorkshop Photography: What to Expect
Okay, this is a long one. With so many workshops these days I wanted to explain a bit about how I view these events, and also how I think it might benefit you to view them. Creating a telling body of...
View ArticlePalm Springs Photo Festival
Someone asked me, “Hey, how as the festival?” I thought about it, tried to figure out how best to answer and then realized the obvious. “Where else can you talk photography and books at 3:30AM?” In...
View ArticleTodd Hido
In short, Todd is great and you should watch this. When it comes to moody imagery Hido is one of the first photographers I think of. He is also one of the most copied, or attempted to be copied,...
View ArticleRafal Milach: In the Car with R
One of the best things about my job is I get to see a lot of work. Not only do I get to see actually photography, up close and in person, but I also get to see a lot of photography and art books. In...
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