Archive for July, 2008

How to be Creative

One of the most interesting reads you will find about creativity [with a good sense of humor]. You can get the pdf here. The sense of humor and the writing are quite special. A book on “How to be Creative” by Hugh MacLeod will come next year.
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New talent can be found at photography schools

© Ciaran Dolan
Source Magazine is a magazine of contemporary photography from Ireland. I never had the opportunity to see the magazine, so I can’t comment about it, but I recently learned that at their website they have started to host a gallery of photography from graduate schools United Kingdom and Ireland.
It seems to me that [...]

Vernacular Typography Polaroids

©  Douglas Wilson [polaroids]

Using polaroids and made by Douglas Wilson, a graphic designer obsessed with typography. More of his photographs here. Quite nice.

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Todd Selby’s blog: looking at the intimacy of people’s places

Todd Selby has a new photo blog, “The Selby in Your Place” that I like very much. If you click on the images you will see a casual collection of images taken at the “place” of his friends or friends of his friends [that tend to be artists]. Causal and very interesting. When looking at [...]

Portfolio Consultation at PDN

At PDN online, consultant Leslie Burns-Dell’Acqua, owner of Burns Auto Parts Consultants [what a funny name, isn't it] comments of the portfolio and website of Jamie Kripke taped with three videos you can see here. Some tips will be useful to anyone intending to access commercial work.

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Being Original by Photographing the Impossible

© Li Wei
In times when one would think that any subject in photography has been explored, we find the work of Li Wei, a Beijing-based artist-photographer, whose theme is to photograph impossible scenes [he is the primary subject]. By creating these pictures, without the help of photoshop, his work is strikingly original.
This is staged [...]

Sylvain Dumais

© Sylvain Dumais
Often times photographic commercial work is much constrained to fit the aesthetics of the clients and the market. This imposes significant limitations for the photographer but even can have a reverse effect where photographers themselves [consciously or unconsciously] shape the style of their work according to what the market likes to purchase. This [...]

On good taste and persistence

http://youtube.com/watch?v=-hidvElQ0xE

” It takes a while, its going to take you a while, and that’s normal, you just have to fight your your way through it, you will make things that aren’t as good as you know in your heart you want them to be, over and over again… I was not good for a very [...]

Remi Thornton: capturing beautiful light in the dark

© Remi Thornton
Night photography is a complicated art in itself. It requires the ability to see light in places where there is no light, to compose images without seeing in the darkness all the elements that are located in front of the camera, and to imagine [or just discover after the fact] how the the [...]

Alec Soth’ ongoing project. America and China: The Eagle and the Dragon.

© Alec Soth
I am a big fan of Alec Soth. He is one of the best using fine art photography to document sensitive and relevant stories. He masters storytelling with fine art pictures, his books are wonderful, and if you ever see his prints you will be truly amazed, they are well beyond you can [...]