Yesterday I posted my Ghost Town Jenny photos. I’ve been putting this off for a while – I’ve always suspected that the result would be disappointing. But I forced myself through for two reasons: a promise, and the sense that my avoidance was deeply hypocritical. It’s difficult to articulate what exactly didn’t work with this [...]
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Street Photography is not Voyeurism
June 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Musings!, Photography
I can sense the discomfort when I talk about street photography. Not my own, but of the other person on finding that it means taking pictures of people in public spaces. I’ve never received a coherent explanation for their unease, just the slightly wary, discomfited look to their eye, the muttered statement that they wouldn’t [...]
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Two Points
May 12th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Photography
I recently attended a CONTACT ’08 lecture by David Hurn. A member of Magnum for over four decades, David is widely respected for the breadth and quality of his photography – especially his human interest work. It would be impossible to summarize 1.5 hours into a wordbite so I thought I’d limit my comments to [...]
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