Camera Position 29 : Where Are You From?

Where do creative ideas come from? How do we figure out what’s the most interesting thing to photograph? Using the photographs and ideas of photographer and writer Wright Morris (1910-1998), I explore the notion of mining your past and your passions to find your subject.

Photograph by Wright Morris Photograph by Wright Morris

Photograph by Wright Morris

Camera Position 28 : Which Came First?

Photographs by Philip Trager – click images for a larger view

When we choose a subject, sometimes we need to choose the right machine to record that subject. This episode uses the work of photographer Philip Trager to show how subject can influence the tools that we use.

Camera Position 27 : The Mind & The Machine

Tryptich - Rialto Market, Venezia, 2003 - Photograph by Jeff Curto

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Whether we like it or not, photography has technology at its base. Sometimes, changing up the equipment we use can allow us to change the way we look at the world in a significant way. This episode uses a triptych image I made in using smaller-than-my-normal 4×5 camera and color film (A Hasselblad and Fuji NPS 120 film) and examines how a change in the tools we are using can change everything about the way we see and photograph. The image above can be clicked to provide a larger view.