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You Have Not Lost Your Inspiration. You Have Lost the Signal.
Every photographer has felt it. The creative flatness. The sense that something has gone. But inspiration does not actually go anywhere. Here is what is really happening and how to find your way back.
Weekly News Roundup
Kodak drops six new films, Martin Parr's first posthumous show opens in Paris, and Panasonic and Viltrox both have announcements worth paying attention to this week.
The Idolatry of Sharpness
Someone used the phrase idolatry of sharpness recently and it stopped me in my tracks. Because it is exactly right. We have turned sharpness into a false god and photography is worse for it.
A Photo Story: Built on Ashes
Oxford, Mississippi is a town in the middle of remaking itself. Dason Pettit has spent years watching it happen, and somewhere along the way realized the project was also about him.
The Most Interesting Photographs Are Made by The Most Interested Photographers
The most interesting photographs are almost never made by the most technically skilled photographers. They are made by the most curious ones. There is a difference worth understanding.
Are Long Exposures Only for Landscape Photography?
Most photographers think long exposure belongs to the landscape. Alexey Titarenko spent the 1990s proving otherwise, and the results are some of the most haunting photographs ever made.
Does your camera know how to laugh?
Street photography takes itself very seriously. Too seriously. Here is how to find the funny, why it matters, and why the best comic photographs are made by people who are paying very close attention.
Zone Focusing: The Fastest Way to Never Miss a Shot
Zone focusing sounds technical. It is not. It is one of the most useful things a street photographer can learn and Dave Herring explains it better than almost anyone.
A Photo Story: Cuba 25 Years Ago
Twenty five years ago, Eduardo Cerda Sanchez boarded a plane to Cuba. He was not going as a photographer with a project. He was going as a student, with a camera, three months, and no agenda. Cuba, it turns out, does not need a photographer with a project. It just needs one willing to show up.
Weekly News Roundup
Fujifilm announces the Instax Mini 13, Sony takes its authenticity solution to video, and there is new gear and exhibition news worth knowing about this week.
The Photography Contest Industry Does Not Care About Your Photography
Photography contests look like opportunity. Some of them are. Most of them are something else entirely. Here is what the industry does not want you to think too hard about.
To Crop or Not To Crop That Is The Question
Somewhere along the way we decided that cropping a photograph was an admission of failure. It is not. It never was. And believing otherwise is costing you better images.