Katie West makes tough work. It’s tough to critique because it seems so personal, tough to look at for the same reason. Viewing a Katie West self portrait is like stumbling on a photo meant to be secret, a photograph taken for just one person. For this reason, her photography raises questions about private and [...]
Lauren Peralta is known for her self portraits. She’s also known for her tattoo. So much so, in fact, that her tattoo is plastered all over the Internet, often without any kind of credit given to the photographer. It’s one of the reasons I wanted to ask her a few questions. She’s also a talented [...]
Tanya Dakin is a talented photographer and model, one of the many great people I met while doing my first stint in the 365 Project. I immediately fell in love with her Sleeping Strangers project, and it remains one of my favorite series of all time.
Greg Turner: The basics: How did you get into modeling? [...]
When I first saw ck/ck’s photograph of the picnic table at White Sands, I was stunned. Stunned by the blue sky, the stark landscape. The lonely picnic table and hopeful hibachi. I’ve since been stunned by many of his images, each capturing something unique to a place, something uniquely American, in its way. Something I [...]
Kris Payne is a photographer. For real. He’s also candid, blunt, and super friendly.
Take a wander through his website and pay particular attention to the “Disposable Coney” section in Series (one of my personal favorites). Then wander over to Hypostyle.net and saunter back and back through some amazing landscapes. Then go ahead and bookmark both. [...]
You may know Megan McIsaac’s work from Flickr, or you might have the good fortune to live in the Pacific Northwest and know Megan personally. I’ve been a fan for a while and totally stole the “making photographs” idea from her. Then I asked her some questions:
Greg: Where are some of the places [...]
We are all photographers
I hear this sentiment frequently. “Now with digital, everyone thinks they’re a photographer”. And the more defensive, “owning an expensive canon or nikon doesnt make you a photographer”. But if I remember correctly, nearly everyone in the country has owned a camera since the 1970’s. That’s the reason you can pick up a [...]
…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 [...]
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 [...]