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In Photoworks, Guest, Edition 3, High and Low, the 9th photograph indexed is not mine. Instead it is Germaine Krull s Untitled (Crane and Moon) photographed in 1928. I am really sad that my work didn t get featured, and that my name was accidentally attached to someone else s work. It sounds like just the sort of Continue reading Errata: Not My Work
Shogun taught me that to live a new life, you have to let old dreams die. I m in limbo. My career is on pause, and it s the summer before grad school. I m going back to school after trying to adult for 30 years. I could never stomach the game you have to play as a Continue reading Letting Go of Old Dreams
If all social reality is staged, according to T.R. Young, then what is the relation of that point of view to Henri Cartier-Bresson s that photography captures a decisive moment? It s as if a street photographer is just an audience member of Hamlet snapping photos. She knows what will already happen. Yerevan, 2023 by author Before Continue reading If All Social Reality Is Staged
Just echoing what Om Malik wrote a few weeks ago. Social Media is dead. This is actually a great thing. Not that I was ever in danger of this, but I won t have to worry about Instant or Viral Fame compromising my art. When I go outside, I won t have anybody say, You re that guy Continue reading Social Media is Dead
In my last post I wrote about my digital detox tl;dr: no trolls or algorithms manipulating you. Free your mind, Morpheus says in The Matrix. A digital detox does exactly that. What then does my post detox photo work flow look like. Let s talk about an old way first: grow an audience on socials Continue reading My Photo Work Flow After my Digital Detox
I did a digital detox for one week from 8/24/2019 to 8/31/2019. My plan was towards the end of the detox I would head out to the Wilderness in Joshua Tree but I sprained my knee half-way through so just spent all my time in San Francisco. My version of the digital detox meant no Continue reading Digital Detox for a Week
My idols are dead and my enemies are in power. Paul Darling The earliest origin for a variation on this quote can be found in Cazuza s 1988 song of the name, Ideologia, where the quote in Portuguese is: Meus heróis morreram de overdose
 Meus inimigos estão no poder I think of this quote every Continue reading My idols are dead and my enemies are in power.
Who is Sergio Larrain? He is considered Chile s greatest photographer (1931 2012) who made street photography using shadow and angles in a way few had tried before. The great French photographer, Henri Cartier-Bresson, after seeing his London photographs, gave him an invitation to join and work for Magnum. He accepted this invitation. After a Continue reading Sergio Larrain and the Photoagraphic…
For this review of Minutes to Midnight by Trent Parke (2013), I ll be using the index created here. In a previous blog post I talked about the stylistic and technical aspects of the work, where the filmic qualities and the chance a film process introduces are paramount. This review is just my interpretation of the Continue reading Minutes to Midnight Trent Parke Review
I m taking a bit of a break from my review of the book I mentioned in my last post. It is the weekend after all. Last night I went to the cage match at the Harvey Milk Photocenter. Basically, a photographer sends a photo to the @streetfotosf account and then a bunch of prestigious judges Continue reading 2019 Trends in Film Photography