Notes from the field, thoughts on craft, news from the photography world
The Boulder Digital Arts show is coming up on June 1st and it looks like a great lineup of photographers and digital artists. If you are in the Denver/Boulder area this is worth the drive. Boulder Digital Arts has been a consistent supporter of photography as a fine art and their shows always draw strong work.
Read more →Paul F. Moloney has spent decades documenting communities and individuals on the margins of mainstream society. His work is quiet, patient, and deeply humane. We sat down with Paul to talk about his process, his influences, and what keeps him going back to the same subjects year after year.
Read more →Every photographer eventually turns the camera on themselves. This is mine — made with a 4x5 view camera, a cable release, and more patience than I usually have. The print is a silver gelatin contact print from the original negative.
Read more →FotoFest is the world's largest international photography festival, held every two years in Houston, Texas. This year's meeting place drew photographers, curators, and collectors from over 60 countries. We were there with cameras and microphones — look for the interviews coming soon.
Read more →There is a reason photographers keep coming back to film. It is not nostalgia, exactly — or not only nostalgia. There is something about the physical process, the latency between exposure and result, the grain and the chemistry, that changes how you see. Several of our interview subjects have talked about this. Here are some thoughts on why it still matters.
Read more →Hal Gould announced this week that Camera Obscura Gallery will close its doors after 43 years. The gallery, which opened in 1969, was one of the oldest fine-art photography galleries in the world and represented some of the most important photographers of the 20th century. It will be deeply missed.
Read more →Anthony Powell spent over a decade living and working at the South Pole to make his film Antarctic — A Year on Ice. When we sat down to talk, what struck me most was not the technical achievement but the patience — the willingness to wait years for the right light, the right moment, the right story.
Read more →Photo Talk TV has always been about the conversation — the back-story, the process, the thinking behind the image. The interviews are the core of what we do, but there is always more to say than fits in a video. Light Leaks is where the rest of it goes: notes from the field, thoughts on craft, news from the photography world, and the occasional self-portrait.
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