Archive for February, 2010

Pitch Perfect

There are moments when things just seem to fall into place. You can be standing on a street corner and time seems to slow down. You watch things move as if you were directing them… It’s a rhythm, and the best photographer’s capture moments that evoke that same feeling. The work of  Vanessa Winship is a [...]

iStupid

The Internet has become one more tool hijacked by corporate interests to accelerate our cultural, political and economic decline. The great promise of the Internet, to open up dialogue, break down cultural barriers, promote democracy and unleash innovation and creativity, has been exposed as a scam. The Internet is dividing us into antagonistic clans, in [...]

It’s Underway…

This week marked a big step in my work as a photographer. I began my first photo essay. The planning was a few months in the making but I was able to get a good day of shooting in on Thursday. The story I am documenting centers around a ramen chef named Murakami. He owns [...]

The Amazing World of UBUWEB

I was lead to a site called UBUWEB today, the amazingly expansive collection of works by a range of visual artists, writers and musicians. I only wish someone had told me sooner because it’s going to take a long time to sift through everything the site has to offer. UBUWeb was founded in 1996, initially [...]

Kosuke Okahara

Kosuke Okahara is a photojournalist that covers stories from South America to Asia. I saw his work recently in PDFx12 Magazine, a free online magazine with issues comprised of a single photo essay and corresponding text. Okahara has done stories for PDFx12 covering stories such as drug smuggling in South America and self injury in Japan. The photo [...]

A Few Links

Burn Magazine (or more specifically David Alan Harvey) has posted the notice for the Emerging Photographer’s Fund. The prize is $25k and goes to help an “emerging photographer finish an ongoing personal project,” the deadline for submission is April 15. Michael David Murphy has written an article called Reconsidering Winogrand, which appeared in the first issue [...]