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The Quiet Weight of a Photograph
There are photographs that announce their intentions almost at once. A face filled with emotion, a dramatic landscape, a decisive moment in the street. I look at them and understand, or at least believe I understand, why the photographer pressed…
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Film vs Digital: Two Ways of Seeing
There was a time that nobody asked whether you were an analogue or digital photographer. Photography was simply photography. You bought a camera, put a roll of film into it, tried not to forget what ISO you had loaded, and…
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Street Photography: Learning to See What Is Already There
For me, street photography begins with something remarkably simple: life happening in front of my camera. A man waits alone at a bus stop. Two strangers exchange a glance while passing each other. A child runs through a patch of…
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The Latitude of Tri-X
There is something reassuring about Kodak Tri-X 400. It is not a film that demands perfect exposure. On the contrary, part of its character lies in what happens when exposure is less than perfect. For generations of photographers, Tri-X has…