Tweet This is a project that I’m really excited to be a part of. I remember in 2007 when I was just dreaming about being a freelance photographer I once emailed Kevin Miyazaki out of the blue just to ask him about his work because I was so drawn to it. He responded graciously. Since [...]
Tweet Potter’s Garden, Hagi, Japan: Copyright Sam Abell from the book Seeing Gardens I’ve probably said it before, but the weather, and the place I am in bears a strong influence on my moods and thoughts. Spring is coming and this has me feeling inspired again. While this winter came and went most of my [...]
TweetI’ve been out of school for a bit now but one of my classmates when I was there was photographer Jim Korpi. His new website has a plethora of new work and it’s really, really wonderful stuff. Jim and I worked together in the summer of 2008 (well, at least congruently, with him in New [...]
TweetOk, the name leaves something to be desired, but my friend Peter McCollough recently pointed out a great source for seeing street photography. There’s some pretty amazing work from random public places the world over in the Flickr group called Hardcore Street Photography. As with most Flickr…there’s some garbage to wade through but this group’s [...]
Tweet Every once in awhile you come across some work that just makes you reevaluate things. Saul Leiter’s book of street photography (titled Early Color) from the mid 20th century was one such book this year that has really stuck with me. He gives a beautiful, unique and impressionistic view of life in New York [...]
Tweet TED has a lot of interesting speakers, and a good collection of photographer speeches. DVAfoto pointed me out to Aaron Huey’s recent TED talk about the Lakotah tribe in the Black Hills. It is a gripping and poignant history lesson with powerful images to boot…once that have danced around in my head since Harper’s [...]
TweetBryan Derballa of Brooklyn has an interview up about his Lovebryan.com site, which is a sort of journal/photography site hybrid thing. Anyways, Johnny Simon over at the Photoletariat just posted an interview with him that’s a nice quick read, and is also a reminder for me to say please go check out the work of [...]
TweetMartin Bandzak, John Vink of Magnum photos and others have work in a new magazine called Inside Magazine financially supported by Slovakaid and other parties. It looks like it’s free for a hard copy as well (you pay shipping) but it’s 432 pages and hardcover. It looks interesting and each issue explores a topic in [...]
TweetBuddy of mine Jason Andrew with whom I used to intern at James Nachtwey’s studio at a few years ago recently got 2nd place in the Fujifilm Distinction Awards with the below image from his work in Abkhazia. The winner was Ikuru Kuwajima, who’s work in the Ukraine and surrounding regions has also been some of [...]
TweetBrowsing the shelves of a book store last night I found a new publication called Respect. Magazine. It’s a photography centric hip-hop publication featuring lots of great portfolios of people who have photographed hip-hop for years and isn’t juiced with ads. Not sure if it’ll be around for the long haul but it looks good [...]
