Every now and then, something we learn in school actually stays with us. I remember something I learned in the

Imagine a photo book on your coffee table. It’s a pleasant shade of blue, a little bit bigger than 9

Reading a photo book is unlike reading any other kind of book. Photo books do not, in general, have plot.

We have all been there. Hope. Ambition. Dreams. Hard Work. The Moment. And then, disappointment. For whatever reason, sometimes justly and

I don’t think I’ve ever held a more troubling book. I mean that in the best possible way. To trouble

One of the most wonderful, and most troubling, things about photography is the way the images linger. We capture the

On the left side of my desk this morning, a cold and windy winter morning on the northern prairie of

There is little doubt that many of us have a fascination with outtakes, or the B roll, or the material

With luck, we’ve all had this conversation. Late at night, more or less, we find ourselves talking with other photographers,

There is something special about reorientation. You think you know something – at least its boundaries if not its core –

There are lessons everywhere. Not all of them are direct. “Hayao Miyazaki” by Jessica NiebelPublished by Delmonico Books, 2021review by

I often wonder why we are attracted to biography, and especially autobiography. My life is nothing like Benjamin Franklin’s, or Maxine

There are a thousand ways to define culture. Ethnicity is one of them. So is location. So is occupation. One of the most

It’s always one of the early questions. What is your name? What do you do? Where are you from? Think about that for

What is the relation between an image and its idea? I remember once, a long time ago, seeing a mundane