Flying to foreign country to make photographs and design a magazine–in real-time no less–isn’t the easiest thing in the world, and yet every year I see people go and do this very thing. Sam Keam did it. I have proof. …
Creative: Hot and Cold
Someone asked me about buying a Leica. “Should I get the monochrome or the color version?” “Get the color,” I said. “If you need or want it you are covered especially with assignment work.” If you asked me what kind …
Creative: Visual Revolutionary Podcast
Had a chance to talk with Ric Stovall on his Visual Revolutionary Podcast. Anyone with Kind of Blue embedded in their homepage image is okay in my book. This discussion is as real a conversation as I’ve had being interviewed …
Creative: Five Minutes of Mood
I remember the moment when the glass began to slip. In my fingertips and dangerously close to the safety of the counter. A two-piece device, one inside the other but neither attached to anything else but me. Free and floating. …
Creative: Radius Books, A Visit
Friends were in town. Book people. Photography people. Doing what you ask? Well, working on a book, of course. Looks like I may or may not make a contribution. Even though I live in New Mexico, I rarely get to …
Creative: Tortured by Place
Sometimes you visit a place and the place never leaves you. I don’t think this is something anyone can control. There is no ability to turn it off once it has turned itself on. Typically, for this to happen you …