Somewhere in the last couple of weeks, my film-o-meter clicked over 500. That would be 500 rolls of mostly b&w since I came back to photography a couple of years (4-5?) ago. The website was born shortly thereafter. You can check out the bones of the original site in the wayback machine. I’d been an [...]
The post title is a quote taken from Black White + Grey, a fascinating documentary about Sam Wagstaff, the collector and curator who, among other things, brought Robert Mapplethorpe to fame. The documentary makes a case for Wagstaff inventing the market for photography by beginning to collect the works of unknown and often anonymous photographers [...]
See here and here. Just keep shooting. Something will click.
A robot family in front of the homestead. The rough draft of my SOFOBOMO book, Our Robot Overlords Revealed, is done. I still need to add some bits of text, touch up a few the photos, and maybe replace a few of the weaker ones, but the basic bones of the book are in place, [...]
I’m not sure that I can think up a way to use any of these in my SOFOBOMO book, except for that first one, perhaps. Unlike Colin, I have a hard time staying on topic. There’s a bit of self-doubt at play, but mostly it’s a matter of photographic habit. Photography is a way of [...]