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Monday Missive – July 24, 2017

Quotes “Be unafraid of your imagination.” — Joe McNally “I just think it’s important to be direct and honest with people about why you’re photographing them and what you’re doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.” – … Continue reading

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Monday Missive — July 17, 2017

Quotes “Every time you assume that others will be swayed by your logical argument, you’ve most likely made a significant, irrational mistake. Your actions and your symbols and your tribe dwarf the words you use to make your argument.” — … Continue reading

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Monday Missive — July 10, 2017

Quotes “Life, now, was unfolding before me, constantly and visibly, like the flowers of summer that drop fanlike petals on eternal soil.” — Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy “Again and again, the cicada’s untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like … Continue reading

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Monday Missive — July 3, 2017

Quotes “You’re better than you think you are.” — Seth Godin on June 30, 2017 “I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, … Continue reading

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Monday Missive — June 26, 2017

Quotes “I don’t figure out my vision and my direction so I can make photographs, I make photographs so I can figure out my vision and direction.” — David DuChemin, Vision is Better, Episode 61 “That’s how you discover your … Continue reading

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Monday Missive – June 19, 2017

Quotes “The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don’t belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.” — Susan Meiselas “We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to … Continue reading

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Monday Missive — June 12, 2017

Quotes “It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.” – Charles Darwin “Your opinion is your opinion, your perception is your perception–do not confuse them with “facts” or “truth”. … Continue reading

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Monday Missive — June 5, 2017

Quotes “If you try to corral or cage the photographic process, it will thumb it’s nose at you. The trick is just to flow with it and stop it when a moment of discovery has met inspiration.” — Paul Caponigro … Continue reading

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Monday Missive — May 29, 2017

Quotes “The doing is the thing. The talking, and worrying and thinking about the thing is not the thing.” — Amy Poehler “Every photograph is altered, to one degree or another.” – John Paul Caponigro “Many oriental cultures make a … Continue reading

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Monday Missive — May 22, 2017

Quotes “When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other … Continue reading

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Monday Missive – May 15, 2017

Quotes “Dreams and photographs have something in common… ” — Minor White cited in “Manifestations of the Spirit” “Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest – a distant horizon, a … Continue reading

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Monday Missive — May 8, 2017

Quotes “…truly understanding our narratives is the essence of doing work that matters, that connects, and that spreads.” — Posted by Seth Godin on May 02, 2017 “The notion of one photographer being better than another doesn’t interest me. You … Continue reading

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Monday Missive — May 1, 2017

Quotes “Creativity is always enhanced by a constraint. This is true in filmmaking, music, painting, writing and even photography.” “Comfort is where art goes to die.” “The best critiques I’ve seen are not about the image’s technical properties. The best … Continue reading

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Monday Missive — April 24, 2017

Quotes …I don’t pretend to relate, which is why I turn to art to learn things I don’t understand. — Jonathan Blaustein on Apr 14, 2017, Photofolio “Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is … Continue reading

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Monday Missive — April 17, 2017

Quotes “I often think of my work as visual haiku. It is an attempt to evoke and suggest through as few elements as possible rather than to describe with tremendous detail.” – Michael Kenna “Photography’s great difficulty lies in the … Continue reading

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