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My position on photography contests is clear. I’m against contests organized by organizations unrelated to photography. Competitions offer a wide range of benefits, but we must be cautious and carefully choose the ones we participate in. Usually the following platforms launch contests in a traditional way, and although they don’t put forward the same contest […]
19″Maybe I do not have the lynx eye Cartier-Bresson talked about, I’m more rested, I’m staying with what’s there, static.” Graciela Iturbide Mexico has a very interesting visual culture, from painting to film – and in the midst of it all, of course, fits (and very well) photography. Mexico has something special. In fact, it’s […]
Since the early days of film in photography, when things happened due to the beauty of chemistry, black-and-white photography has been far more permissive when compared to color photography. It is highly permissive when cranking certain limits – from chemical temperatures to contrast in the final image. Nowadays, that peculiar nature of the format continues […]
The world of photography is filled with many awards. The variety is intense – from prizes driven by entities that have a lot of faith in the medium, to exaggerated cases where prizes are driven by companies utterly foreign to photography. Much has been said about photography contests thanks to companies outside the industry that […]
Street photography is my greatest passion. I enjoy both consuming it – on the web, in books, at exhibitions, etc. – and engaging in it. Thanks to the scant control we have on the streets, the color combinations we usually find are not necessarily the most appealing to the eye, and not always useful for […]
If you’re willing to make photography your main source of income (or at least an important source of your overall income) you’ll need to sell your work to a diverse clientele. Some clients are great, even though they are serious when establishing their expectations. But others can be very tricky, and you need to take […]
If we skip the centuries that “Camera Obscura” has existed, we can narrow the history of photography down to nearly 200 years. In all this time, a lot of curious things have happened to our beloved pastime. This time we’ll relax a bit and get into some weird facts about photography that will probably surprise […]
The intention here is not to discourage you, but to invite you into pursuing photography with your own voice. And also to help you not to feel guilty if you ever find that one of your beloved images was created almost the same way fifty or more years ago. Not everyone can become a great […]
The storytelling nature of photography no secret. It has been used for a century to narrate stories in a very peculiar and effective way. Narrative photographic projects have great power, and regardless of the level of experience and maturity of the photographer, they are very appealing. Photographic essays invite us to research a topic or […]
Trains have been a recurrent subject in the arts. Narrative, illustration, painting, poetry, photography and film have taken trains as a subject several times. It is no surprise that trains and cameras have gotten along so well since they were both born almost at par and have contributed things to humanity that many thought were […]