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Two weeks in Ukraine, one half-frame camera, mostly at kitchen tables. No pictures of war, though it's in the background of every frame. NOTICE Journal Volume Two is open for preorder today, with an essay by Julia Kochetova and a bonus zine for the first two weeks.
Cover reveal! Layout, dummies, steps 4, 5, and 6
On loving the making more than the finished thing
Step 3: Sequencing NOTICE Journal Vol. 2, and why two images side by side say something neither says alone
On fear, Ukraine, and the work that waits on the other side of getting it wrong.
Step 2 of making a photo book. This week, choosing which images stay, and letting go of the good ones that do not serve the story. From my Ukraine book in progress.
HUGE Giveaway: To celebrate 250 issues, I'm passing on the Avedon book that shaped how I see people.
Wim T. Schippers spent his life making art that refused to explain itself. A letter on giving your own photographs the same freedom.
Step 1 of making a photo book, and the step I'm working through myself right now with NOTICE Journal Vol. 2.
I let go of the roll for one second and a light leak fell across my best frame. Here is why it became the photo, and what Jordan Peele knows about mistakes.
