TweetChicago based photographer Daniel Shea has a really nice body of work on an issue that’s bothered me internally since I’ve lived in Appalachia … unfortunately I’ve not come up with a good way to tackle the subject since it’s always seemed to big and looming to add to my already chaotic grad school schedule. [...]
TweetPart of the reason I came to grad school was to be around people who were as into photography as I was, and to be inspired by them. One such guy wasn’t around last year but came back after a hiatus to join our class. Check out Neil Ever Osborne’s portfolio … A biologist by [...]
TweetI posted this a few days ago over on the APhotoADay Blog, where I am a contributor, but the more I go through this project the more I am fascinated by it. Switzerland based artists GORAN GALIC & GIAN-RETO GREDIG have created Photographers in Conflict which puts people whose names we usually only see under [...]
TweetI guess these were more about the signs in beautiful spaces. They’re almost not there, but they still are (were)…
TweetNow that the election and halloween are over, some semblance of calm is creeping in my little town here. This is a photo from a short essay on the ubiquity of election signs, that fits in to a larger story I was working on..
TweetMy buddy TimGruber recently turned me on to Conscientious – Jörg Colberg’s blog about fine art photography, where he recently has been questioning the effectiveness of traditional photojournalism. Over three pretty well thought out posts he argues that we as a society have become a bit numb to this form of delivery, and that photojournalists [...]
TweetWent to Lancaster, OH the other night to photograph John McCain coming to town. I’ve gotta say, he kinda made Joe Biden look like the old man. How he was so fired up after a rally in Iowa and in Ohio earlier in the day at his age is impressive. Not to mention he seemed [...]
TweetEvery year OU does a one day photo essay called Dawn to Dusk that gets printed in a nice tabloid format and distributed around Athens. There’s also been a web component for the past few years to show all the photos that didn’t get published (along with the ones that did). Myself, Columbus Dispatch designer/illustrator/current [...]
TweetLarry Towell of Magnum Photos came to speak at my school last night. Ohio University’s a good place to be for inspiration. I was pretty blown away. The show, featuring works throughout his career featured a mix of amazing photojournalism images, with some excellent musicianship by harmonica virtouso Mike Stevens. Though at times the show [...]
TweetA common topic discussed in grad school right now is what is actually journalism? The new wave of multimedia pieces and creative combinations have people discussing if certain pieces, produced by well known photojournalists, are actually journalism. A number of pieces seem to fall more under the veil of social commentary, to me. Even if [...]
