Category: Advice & Learning

If it weren’t for the name of this site, I would probably tell all of my kids to read it. And beg them to post more often because, well, they’re damned funny. Most recently they took on the latest style of shooting from the hip. Thankfully, they point out that there’s one guy doing it really well – Scott Strazzante....

Spotted this in a book store, but was rushing too much and didn’t grab it, but based on this review at the Luminious Landscape, I’m going to go get George Barr’s Why Photographs Work. It’s not about photojournalism, it’s about imaging and understanding why some frames resonate and some do not. Will keep you posted …

On my list of things I must do, this is pretty much at the top: five days of learning how to tell stories with meaning through photographs, lead by none other then the most excellent Dave LaBelle. His fourth annual Pictures with Purpose Storytelling Workshop runs July 19-24 in Chanute, Kansas. Applications are still being taken, it’s limited to just...

I mentioned the other day that the deadline for the Eddie Adams Workshop application was coming up quick – Friday, June 3. Patrick Fallon over at The Visual Student blog on the NPPA web site has an interview with 2001 workshop student Melissa Lyttle (who has gone on to give back in a bunch of ways).