Who is Sergio Larraín? He is considered Chile’s greatest photographer (1931 – 2012) who made street photography “using shadow and angles in a way few had tried before.” The great French photographer, Henri Cartier-Bresson, after seeing his London photographs, gave him an invitation to join and work for Magnum. He accepted this invitation. After a […]
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2019 Trends in Film Photography
I’m taking a bit of a break from my review of the book I mentioned in my last post. It is the weekend after all. Last night I went to the “cage match” at the Harvey Milk Photocenter. Basically, a photographer sends a photo to the @streetfotosf account and then a bunch of prestigious judges […]
Minutes to Midnight by Trent Parke, Giving Valence to Film Flaws, An On-Going Review
How does one find a start for a photographic review? The first and only major blocks of text in Minutes to Midnight describe a UFO encounter by a set of witnesses. Will the photos be a fiction or a factual set. Will the photos be like the UFO, somewhere in between requiring interpretation? In Gadamer’s […]
A Highly Subjective Index of “Minutes to Midnight” by Trent Parke
This index of Trent Parke’s Minutes to Midnight is in preparation for a review of this great work published in 2013. Trent Parke saved up for 5 years to go on a road trip of Australia. During that time his partner got pregnant and birthed their son – both moments viscerally captured. Trent Parke used […]
How to Reduce Social Media Usage
We all know that social media causes a slew of mental health and societal issues: a reduction in empathy low self-esteem in teens a dopamine addiction to apps designed just for pushing ads But lucky for you, you are already an analogue shooter, or are about to be one, and we all know that shooting […]
Why I torched my Instagram account
There has to be a better way to build community.
A Year of Shooting Film
On June 6, 2017 I started photographing with film again. The last time I was super serious about film photography was in high school, where we were blessed with unlimited chemicals and film. Sadly, all my negatives from high school got stolen from my apartment when I was living in Italy. It was a relief […]
The Philosophy of Art
The Internet makes words mean different things. If you used the word, aesthetics, pre-Instagram, then that word could have meant, “The study of the beautiful and to a lesser extent, the ugly.” Post-Instagram, the word can mean, “The results of one’s ‘gains’ from doing things to get swoll,” or to use less idiom, “the physical […]
Chasing Fog in the San Francisco Bay Area
Enough folks have asked me how I chase fog shots that I’ve added useful tools / links I use to chase fog. 1) Is the government saying there will be morning fog? Check here first! 2) SFO Aviation data: If it’s good enough for our planes, then it’s good enough for you. Look for “Ceiling” […]
Instagram Hubs Are Bad & Are Just Link Farms
You open up Instagram. You see that someone has posted a photo you took. They say stuff like, “Congratulations, you have been featured!” Are they featuring you out of the goodness of their heart? While I was running the @IgersSF account, I would notice that featuring photos more often benefitted the @IgersSF account than the […]