I sometimes wonder about the work we do. Photographers are documentarians, yes. But we are also historians, sociologists, ethnographers. Sometimes we are psychiatrists

Sometimes a simple idea is the best idea. Sometimes, in fact, a simple idea can be genius. Every Wednesday night, at

Here is a confession. Every now and then, for whatever reason, I find myself holding an Audubon or Peterson field guide

Everything about this book seems like a good idea. Street Photography is hot right now. The founding superstars are all men –

“One of the hardest, yet most therapeutic journeys a photographer can take is to turn the lens around on themselves,

There are a thousand ways to judge a photobook: technical sophistication, artistic accomplishment, social relevance, and so on. Those are all

There is a quote in Tim O’Brien’s book The Things They Carried I find myself remembering often. He writes: “The truths

Here is a question: How do you explain the ineffable? How do you explain what is present – oftentimes right

When we tell the stories of our lives, to others or to ourselves, we tend to land on events. Here

I love radio. Perhaps because radio seems to come from nowhere, or everywhere, the act of listening, for me at

I would be surprised if every photographer did not share one common dream – to go someplace, someplace unfamiliar, perhaps

It seemed good at the time.  In the 1990s, New York City nightclubs defined energy, culture remade by boundary-exploding innovation. 

I know what’s going to happen. This book is going to sit on your coffee table. There will be a moment

There is a moment I love.  Imagine a dance teacher counting five, six, seven, eight. Just before the next one, the

Here is a proposition: Memory demands the present. At one level this is obvious. Memory, by definition, resides in the previous,