Tag: Actual Pictures

Over on the New York Times‘ Lens blog, they’ve profiled a Russian photographer I’ve never heard of … but want to know a lot more about. According to the story, Emil Getaullin began painting as a child and when he inherited his first camera as a teenager he took that painter’s aesthetic into the country with him. Love this quote...

Any chance I get to quote two of my favorite songwriters means it’s probably going to be a good day. So, let’s start with Slaid Cleaves: Brokedown, cracked and shattered Left in Pieces like it never even mattered There’s no turnin’ round It’s Brokedown And from the late, great Warren Zevon: I was speeding south on ninety-nine when the manifold...

The Denver Post puts together an excellent collection of images each week from around the world. I was slipping through the November 19 edition (yeah, I am behind) and when I got to image 16 (men praying in New Delhi I just stopped … man, is that gorgeous. Then I scrolled down some more to image 19 and … well...

On every assignment I tell my shooters to always get a head shot. I told my staff, I tell my students–get a mug shot, put it in the archive, even if it’s someone you think will never be newsworthy. You just don’t know. But sometimes you need something more than a headshot but access is limited and that’s all you...