Sometimes, to read a book, you have to shut the door. Not because of secrecy or a need to hide,

There is a curious relationship between experience, knowledge, and inspiration. I’m sure every photographer has felt this at one time

There is something special about an inside look. Pull any curtain back, even partially, and we step forward to see what

Imagine a project of 1000 portraits. Now imagine the project in a way that you only get one try for each

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