If you can spare five minutes and twenty-nine seconds from your busy life I invite you to listen to this audio recording. Many years ago, I found a quarter inch audio reel in a rotting cardboard box, covered in dust, while helping my dear friend and mentor, Lighting Cameraman John B. […]
If your attention span is on the short side and instead of reading this post you rather see a video just click on the image above… A lot of people love the “vintage look” in photography these days. Of course, one thing is to obtain it with the plethora of software readily available […]
Life is full of changes, some we pursue, others we resist. For some reason, perhaps due to being profoundly intrigued (and actually a bit traumatized), by the biblical tale of Samson and Delilah I heard in my early childhood, I kept my hair well away from anybody’s scissors for most of my adult life. To […]
Today I was covering the Pride Parade in Queens, one of my favorites in New York, because of the nice “summer block party” mood I have always experienced there in the many years I photographed it. Photographing any parade is pretty much “standard procedure”: I know the shots and, by now, I also know where […]
This is not exactly a number crunching, pixel-peeping technical review of the new Ricoh GR camera. You’ll be able to find many accurate and scientifically inclined ones on the Web. This is the first one in a series of subjective “field notes” about what I am able to achieve with this new pocket-sized camera while […]
I am here to say a thing or two about yesterday’s Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer statement: “there’s really no such thing as professional photographers anymore.” I also would like to make a few comments about an interesting article I read today by Photography Consultant Jim Colton on this topic, which he aptly titled “spitting […]
©Paul Hansen. In the three decades I worked in the news business I have witnessed many changes in the way news are being gathered, edited, packaged and presented to an audience. The winning image of the 2013 Word Press Photo of the Year Award, taken (unless you rather say created) by photojournalist Paul Hansen, continues […]
Of the many photographers whose work I admire and respect Araki makes the top list. I love Araki’s visual fertility, he has produced several hundred photo books in his career, but what really resonates with me is his use of nudity and sexuality to explore even more obscure and private aspects of human life and […]
ORLANDO SOLLECITI indomitable anti-fascist community leader and my great-grand father. In case you are not aware of it, the first day of May, also known as May Day, is International Workers’ Day. It also happened to be my grandmother’s birthday. She was born at the very beginning of the 20th century in the southern part […]
Let me start by saying that I am a big fan of “ethical behavior”, something I try to practice in all my daily activities, including photography, and I highly value in anybody else. Reading an article by Joerg Colberg “The Ethics of Street Photogra…