Still Life Photography
A while back, I had another roundtable discussion at the Film Photographers Association. This time the subject was Still …
Foundations
Articles on photographic thought, genres, satire
Foundations of photography
A Review Of My LensCulture Submission
A while back, I submitted six photographs from my Passing Through Anatolia series to a contest on LensCulture mainly to …
Abstract Photography
Abstract photography seems to be an elusive subject, hard to nail down to a single definition. This may be due to the …
Fine Art Photography Revisited
A while back, I wrote a post, “Fine Art Photography” to convey my thoughts on this elusive subject. Since …
Photography and Language, 3
In the previous post, I briefly, indeed too briefly, touched upon the nature of languages and moved from object-oriented …
Photography and Language, 2
In part 1 of this series, I covered the general idea of language and drew some preliminary parallels between learning a …
Photography and Language, 1
English is my second language. In the beginning, a long, long time ago, every student had to choose a foreign language …
Ways of Seeing Photographs
Seeing Begins With Looking Look at a photograph, any photograph; look very carefully for a few minutes. Now, put it away …
An Imaginary Conversation
We often get too set in our ways, and our conversation remains in the same context that can blind us to seeing the …
Seeing
Photography is an analytic art form. We aim our lenses to specific parts of the world around us to pick a frame because, …
Creativity
Yes, You Are Creative Are you creative? Of course, you are, don’t let anybody tell you otherwise! The better …
What Price, What Art
What price makes art? A few days ago, I read in The Guardian that the landscape photographer Peter Lik sold one of his …