Blog About Photography

Chris IMed me the other day to intro­duce him­self. He’s a stu­dent at Tufts. I liked this image, but he’s also got some great por­traits. Check out his web­site, chris​latina​.com.

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Tal­ented pho­tog­ra­pher and friend Jen Davis launched her web­site recently. Check it out.

© Lynsey Addario

It might be that some of you look at edi­to­r­ial news pho­tog­ra­phy and get all snooty but, lis­ten, that’s kind of dumb. This pic­ture is totally blow­ing my mind, to bor­row a phrase from a friend. And the arti­cle it’s illus­trat­ing is inter­est­ing also. But not as inter­est­ing as the picture.

Lynsey has an incred­i­bly impres­sive bio: voted young pho­tog­ra­pher of the year 500 times by 500 dif­fer­ent orga­ni­za­tions, been in the PDN 30 and has pho­tographed for the New York Times, Asso­ci­ated Press, and is cur­rently the recip­i­ent of a Getty edi­to­r­ial grant to con­tinue her work in the Mid­dle East. She takes this work so seri­ously, in fact, that in 2003 she moved to Istan­bul to be closer to the action. And I’m going to travel there to work for her, I swear to god.

As if she needs any more atten­tion! But I can’t help it. Jes­sica is really good, 20 years old and goes to Cooper Union. She’s blow­ing up. She has shown 12 times since 2004 all over North Amer­ica, has a whole ros­ter of print clients AND we hap­pened to have gone to the same high school at the same time. She’s friends with Emily Grenader, a long­time friend of mine, Cooper Union stu­dent and future Fri­day photographer.

Any­way, Jes­sica is amaz­ing. She shoots pretty mun­dane sub­jects, which is some­thing I love, using a 6×9 medium for­mat cam­era, mean­ing she gets great detail with a 2:3 ratio iden­ti­cal to 35mm. I totally have to get one of those.

I’m straight up steal­ing a post from Con­sci­en­tious, but that’s ok, but that’s ok because Amy Stein is a great pho­tog­ra­pher who we can all learn some­thing from. From what she puts on her web­site, it would seem that her work adheres closely to the themes she sets forth, using a com­bi­na­tion of found and posed sub­jects. Some of these speak to me more than oth­ers since I belong to the school that says it’s more inter­est­ing to dis­cover inter­est­ing things out there in the world than to set them up your­self. Even so, her work is engag­ing and thought pro­vok­ing, par­tic­u­larly her “Women and Guns” series. And, bet­ter yet, she writes an inter­est­ing and insight­ful blog which is some­thing every­one can behing.