New work, from my ongoing project When All Is Said And Done…
November 19, 2009
Trailer for Strange.rs, an international photography collective. Site will launch 01.01.10. You can follow strangers on Twitter for updates. Between now and the launch we’ll be featuring work from members of the collective.
Urbansand, Photo Of The Day: Alex JD Smith
Urbansand is an awesome site that you should be checking out regularly. One of my shots is featured there today.
November 18, 2009
"With the camera, it’s all or nothing. You either get what you’re after at once, or what you do has to be worthless. I don’t think the essence of photography has the hand in it so much. The essence is done very quietly with a flash of the mind, and with a machine. I think too that photography is editing, editing after the taking. After knowing what to take, you have to do the editing."
— Walker Evans
November 17, 2009
"The state of mind of a photographer while creating is a blank…For those who would equate “blank” with a kind of static emptiness, I must explain that this is a special kind of blank. It is a very active state of mind really, a very receptive state of mind, ready at an instant to grasp an image, yet with no image pre-formed in it at any time. We should note that the lack of a pre-formed pattern or preconceived idea of how anything ought to look is essential to this blank condition. Such a state of mind is not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second’s exposure conceives a life in it. (Not just life, but “a” life)."
— Minor White
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