Don’t buy more guitar gear. Spend the money on music lessons and practice more. Just like with photography, people get lost in GAS… I gave many photo workshops to rich white folks who had 15k worth of camera gear hanging…
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The Impact of AI on Social Documentary Photography and Photojournalism
The Impact of AI on Social Documentary Photography and Photojournalism Please help this website by sharing my content on your social media platforms. This is an awesome way to help my efforts with no cost to you. Thanks! I can…
Social documentary photography: When photo “subjects” become your friends
All photography is documentary. But, not all documentary is social… There is a big difference between cutting out vacation photos and gluing them into a scrapbook/journal, and serious social documentary photography. Both have their place, but they are not the…
A healthy photographic diet
Are you feeling well, photographically? Or, are you feeling a bit queezy? Are you sharing your photos on Facebook groups and Instagram? How much time do you spend looking at photo books? Has this affected your photography? ( photo by…
Photography as Political Propaganda: From Robert Frank to Matt Black
While photographs may not lie, people sure do! Here are some of my thoughts about Matt Black’s photo project, Unamerican Dream.
Street photography is NOT documentary photography!
Many people seem to be confused as to the differences between the popular activity of street photography and the more serious work of documentary photography. Many street photographers like the hitch street photography to the documentary wagon.
Do photographs lie?
The work of Robert Frank was pure political propaganda… @Michael Klinkhamer.. Photos don’t lie??? Someone goes to a birthday party. Everyone is happy and is having a fantastic time. Someone comes with a camera and takes snapshots at very odd…
How do you choose a photo documentary project?
I was asked by a youtube subscriber if I would speak a little bit about how I choose a documentary project.