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  • How a Single Photograph Tells a Complete Story

    How a Single Photograph Tells a Complete Story

    Most photographers think telling a story in a single image is impossible. They are wrong. The mistake is thinking you have to show the whole story. You do not. You have to imply it. Here is the difference and why it matters.

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  • The Enemy of Art Is the Absence of Limitations

    The Enemy of Art Is the Absence of Limitations

    Orson Welles said the enemy of art is the absence of limitations. He spent a career proving it. So did Robert Frank, Vivian Maier, and Daido Moriyama. Here is what constraint actually does to creative work and why more resources is not always the answer.

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  • How Project Photography Can Elevate Your Work

    How Project Photography Can Elevate Your Work

    Most photographers shoot reactively. Something interesting appears and they respond to it. Project photography is the opposite and the difference in what it produces is significant. Here is why committing to a subject over time is one of the most powerful things a photographer can do.

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  • Weekly News Roundup

    Weekly News Roundup

    A big week for gear. GoPro has made the most ambitious product announcement in its history. DJI launched the Osmo Pocket 4. NAB opened in Las Vegas. And Viltrox keeps expanding its lens lineup in ways that matter to serious photographers.

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  • A Photo Story: The Island That Taught Me to See People

    A Photo Story: The Island That Taught Me to See People

    David Clark retired three years ago and bought his first serious camera. Since then he has been making up for lost time. A week in Havana on a portrait workshop led by legendary photographer Peter Turnley changed how he thinks about photographing people. Here is the story.

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  • Seven Reasons to Actually Upgrade Your Gear

    Seven Reasons to Actually Upgrade Your Gear

    The photography industry is very good at making you feel like your current gear is not enough. Most of the time it is wrong. But sometimes upgrading is genuinely the right call. Here is how to tell the difference.

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  • Photographer Spotlight: Kirill Baranovskiy

    Photographer Spotlight: Kirill Baranovskiy

    Kirill Baranovskiy on street photography, shooting spontaneously, and why the best photographs tell their own story.

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  • A Photo Story: The Block

    A Photo Story: The Block

    For the past several months Joe Moro has been returning two or three times a week to the same corner in Melbourne. The same stretch of footpath. The same light. The same cast of strangers who are slowly becoming familiar. This is what it looks like when a photographer decides to go deep instead of…

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  • Many Years in the making: The Monochrome Triangle

    Many Years in the making: The Monochrome Triangle

    Why do some black and white photographs stop you completely while others, technically accomplished and carefully processed, leave you feeling nothing? I have finally found a way to answer it.

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  • Wabi Sabi and the Beauty of the Imperfect Photograph

    Wabi Sabi and the Beauty of the Imperfect Photograph

    Wabi-sabi is a Japanese aesthetic philosophy that finds beauty in imperfection and impermanence. It is not a filter or a style. It is a way of seeing. And once you understand it, you will never look at a photograph the same way again.

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