Monthly Archives: April 2009

Can I make your photograph?

By Greg Turner | Published: April 24, 2009

…and it makes me glad that i made these photographs. that i make photographs.
I like these simple sentences by Megan McIsaac. I like that she describes “making photographs” instead of taking them. It may seem like a hair-fine semantic argument, but I think it’s important, and it’s something I’ve been struggling with lately.
I [...]

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In praise of crappy equipment

By Greg Turner | Published: April 10, 2009

There’s something freeing about a crappy camera. The type of camera that belongs in a messenger bag. At the bottom, among the Doritos crumbs and pencil shavings. It’s the camera you don’t mind being ruined. The kind of camera you can take with you wherever you go. The sewers, for example. It’s the type of [...]

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