Redlights and Redeyes

Dear Newspaper Photographer, If you think you are safe in your job, you aren’t. I say that bluntly to make the point stick.  You are a number.  You are expendable.  Your work will win awards.  Your work will sell papers.  In the end, if they don’t sell that ugly ad around your photo, you don’t [...]

Yes, I realize the irony of this photo in light of my last post. I walked into a bar with my camera.  I had my iPhone.  Not a Holga.  That would have been the trifecta.  To save face, I did walk in there with a sizable posse of other photojournalists, visual artists, and editors during [...]

I’m sorry, as cool as your out-of-focus, Hipstawhatever iPhone looks, it isn’t creative. I don’t know how more bluntly to put it, but the proliferation of imagery lately is slowly sucking the creativity out of photography.  In fact, it has become more formulaic than anything else.  I’m just as guilty.  Just scroll down and see [...]

Sol Neelman shows off his new Mike Davis edit from the Winter Olympics.  If you know Sol, you know his passion for shooting “sport” not as action that happens in between stops and starts of a clock, but more as a cultural and social event that reveals the true community surrounding it.  He would never [...]

Generally, I try to keep the blog self-serving.  I might have 2, perhaps 3, readers (thanks mom, dad, and refresh browser).  I’m sitting here at 6:00am in my boxers with my daughters watching “Yo Gabba Gabba” on a flatscreen television.  I can go to the fridge and choose between bottled water, the filtered water out [...]

Merry Christmas to you all…see you on the flip side.