Category: Craft

There are few stories that touch my students as deeply as the one Scott Strazzante worked on for more than a decade. It happened months ago, but today that I learned Harlow Cagwin passed this year. I never met Mr. Cagwin, and I’ve only had chance conversations with Mr. Strazzante, but I’ve shown Common Ground in my class dozens of...

The Black Friday barrage of emails wasn’t as overwhelming as past years, but there were a lot of things in the inbox this morning. Companies who desperately want to sell me things I really have no need for. (A remote control amphibious beer delivery vehicle? Really?) In amongst them was an email from Phaidon Press, one of the high-end book...

One graf, just one graf in this Guardian piece by Don McCullin and all I want to do is go shoot again: But seeing – really seeing – has nothing to do with photography. And it rewards you with pleasure. I love looking at the sky. I love looking at detail. I think anybody with an intelligent mind can look...