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  • The Problem With Portfolio Reviews

    The Problem With Portfolio Reviews

    The photography portfolio review industry is built on a promise it rarely keeps. Not because the reviewers are bad but because the model is wrong. Here is what actually works.

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  • You Have Not Lost Your Inspiration. You Have Lost the Signal.

    You Have Not Lost Your Inspiration. You Have Lost the Signal.

    Every photographer has felt it. The creative flatness. The sense that something has gone. But inspiration does not actually go anywhere. Here is what is really happening and how to find your way back.

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  • Weekly News Roundup

    Weekly News Roundup

    Kodak drops six new films, Martin Parr’s first posthumous show opens in Paris, and Panasonic and Viltrox both have announcements worth paying attention to this week.

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  • The Idolatry of Sharpness

    The Idolatry of Sharpness

    Someone used the phrase idolatry of sharpness recently and it stopped me in my tracks. Because it is exactly right. We have turned sharpness into a false god and photography is worse for it.

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  • A Photo Story: Built on Ashes

    A Photo Story: Built on Ashes

    Oxford, Mississippi is a town in the middle of remaking itself. Dason Pettit has spent years watching it happen, and somewhere along the way realized the project was also about him.

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  • The Most Interesting Photographs Are Made by The Most Interested Photographers

    The Most Interesting Photographs Are Made by The Most Interested Photographers

    The most interesting photographs are almost never made by the most technically skilled photographers. They are made by the most curious ones. There is a difference worth understanding.

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  • Are Long Exposures Only for Landscape Photography?

    Are Long Exposures Only for Landscape Photography?

    Most photographers think long exposure belongs to the landscape. Alexey Titarenko spent the 1990s proving otherwise, and the results are some of the most haunting photographs ever made.

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  • Does your camera know how to laugh?

    Does your camera know how to laugh?

    Street photography takes itself very seriously. Too seriously. Here is how to find the funny, why it matters, and why the best comic photographs are made by people who are paying very close attention.

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  • Zone Focusing: The Fastest Way to Never Miss a Shot

    Zone Focusing: The Fastest Way to Never Miss a Shot

    Zone focusing sounds technical. It is not. It is one of the most useful things a street photographer can learn and Dave Herring explains it better than almost anyone.

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  • A Photo Story: Cuba 25 Years Ago

    A Photo Story: Cuba 25 Years Ago

    Twenty five years ago, Eduardo Cerda Sanchez boarded a plane to Cuba. He was not going as a photographer with a project. He was going as a student, with a camera, three months, and no agenda. Cuba, it turns out, does not need a photographer with a project. It just needs one willing to show…

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