Author: Mark E. Johnson

March 10, 2021

The Family Business

Touching story by Alix Strauss in The New York Times about the 80 year history of Fred Marcus Studios. Now run by a third generation, they’ve done more than 30,000 weddings since opening in 1941.

Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Good Work/Thoughts & Theory

March 9, 2021

To Be There for Them

Donna Ferraro did an interview with DPReview’s Jeanette D Moses about her new book, Holy. The interview does a deep dive into why and how she works, a lot to learn here. I’m really trying to understand how to make life better for women, and that’s really what I’ve been doing for most of my life. How do we make...

Categories At Work/Craft/Photojournalism

March 3, 2021

Seeing Back in Time

There is something about this story that I just adore. Irish photographer David Killeen buys a photo album of a 1935 trip to Switzerland and then, 75 years later, rephotographs the locations. The video at the bottom of that Macfilos post is just utterly charming.

Categories Craft/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory

February 18, 2021

The Royal Photographic Society Journal Now Online

This is very, very cool – the Royal Photographic Society has made nearly 160 years worth of their Journal available online, every issue from 1853 through to 2018. As a way to look back at great work and how great work was discussed, this is a tremendous resource.

Categories Advice & Learning/Craft/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory

February 17, 2021

Why I Love Photography

Nice piece where Terry Fouche explains why he loves photography. This line resonated with me: A day will come when maybe I can’t pick up a camera anymore and when that day comes and people look at what I left behind, I want them to say this person loved people, this person honored people and we can see it in...

Categories Advice & Learning/Craft/Photojournalism

February 17, 2021

On Gordon Parks

We can never learn enough about Gordon Parks. R.C> Baker at The Village Voice wrote up a brief on an exhibit of his work and included this, in talking about one of Parks’ iconic images: “That’s the photograph I made of her, in the government building, in front of the American flag, with a broom in her hand and a...

Categories Advice & Learning/Good Work/Photojournalism

February 17, 2021

An American Project

Arghhh … the High Museum in Atlanta has an exhibit of Dawould Bey up according to an NPR piece by Karen Michel. Only running through March 14 and I’m not sure how comfortable I’d be – unless they’re doing private showings …

Categories Good Work/Photojournalism

February 14, 2021

What Inspires You?

Great thread started by Lewis Bush on what, outside of photography itself, inspires you. For me, it’s music and one painting. I want to make photos like that painting, lost in the moment, on the edge of the space.

Categories Craft/Good Work/Thoughts & Theory

January 18, 2021

Accidental Art

Interesting look at how we have been interpreting news images in the same way as fine art over the last few years. Now I need to poke through the accidental Renaissance Reddit thread …

Categories Craft/Photojournalism

January 8, 2021

Inside the Capitol

I am still processing the events of Wednesday. Three journalists from The New York Times, including photojournalist Erin Schaff, wrote up their experiences from inside the building. It is terrifying.

Categories At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism