In this podcast on street photography, I discuss what I study and how I work to make better imagery in my documentary photography. Chicago Street Photography – Alley Boys – Exhibit A Take a look at this image from my…
Documenting the Human Experience
In this podcast on street photography, I discuss what I study and how I work to make better imagery in my documentary photography. Chicago Street Photography – Alley Boys – Exhibit A Take a look at this image from my…
Where does the “right” for the State of Israel to exist come from? Who are the people entitled to this land? Seems like straightforward questions, and yet, the US ambassador and Jewish Rabbi Mike Huckabee can’t answer the question! When…
An overview of social documentary photography Street photography, photojournalism, and social documentary photography have long been understood to be three related fields of photography. In this podcast, I give an overview of what social documentary photography is, and what separates…
Faceless and distant silhouettes, dark unknown phantoms standing in shafts of light, crowds of people with their backs turned, super-high-density colors with microscopic resolution – but no soul, no universal gesture, no human connection. That’s what we generally see being…
Social media street photographer: “Don’t do this, most street photographers consider photographing homeless people without their express permission to be disrespectful and intrusive.” Me: Isn’t the nature of street photography itself intrusive and disrespectful at some level? Should we develop…
We have a difficult topic lingering in the cultural air that many people are ruthlessly unwilling to discuss, while at the same time, they seem all too willing to burn down American cities and destroy the lives of individuals in…
The trial of Derek Chauvin was a turning point in my life. Until then, I had at least some faith in our legal system. I had lost all respect for the news media while I was covering the shooting of…
The villagers are storming the castle walls with torches! If you decide to bring a gun to a protest and then decide to get into a physical confrontation with law enforcement, you will lose that battle. Did you not know…