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 […]
Author: Federico Alegria
Federico has a decade of experience in documentary photography, and is a University Professor in photography and research methodology. He's a scientist studying the social uses of photography in contemporary culture who writes about photography and develops documentary projects. Other activities Federico is involved in photography are curation, critique, education, mentoring, outreach and reviews. Get to know him better here.
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 […]