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WE’RE HEADING FOR THE DESERTFIfteen Songs for August (A...

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:43:00 -0500

WE’RE HEADING FOR THE DESERT
FIfteen Songs for August (A Mix)

001. Noah and the Whale — Love of an Orchestra
002. The Arcade Fire — Ready to Start
003. The Black Keys — Sinister Kid
004. Local Natives — Shape Shifter
005. Paloalto — Sleeping Citizens
006. The Low Anthem — To Ohio
007. The National — England
008. Pete Yorn — Crystal Village
009. The Perishers — Sway
010. Mumford & Sons — Awake My Soul
011. New Frontiers — This Is My Home
012. Travis — Colder
013. The Arcade Fire — City With No Children
014. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros — Home
015. Grace Potter and the Nocturnals — Goodbye Kiss

If you like a song, please purchase the entire album and support these artists.

"I think that when you arrive in a place, you need to sniff the air. You need to take your finger,..."

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:48:29 -0500

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I think that when you arrive in a place, you need to sniff the air. You need to take your finger, stick it up and see where the wind is blowing. You need to be able to communicate with people. You should know a language. But even if you don’t know a language, you should at least be decent enough to understand what you are about to photograph, instead of just going, “Pow, pow, pow.” Because when you do that, then you are a vulture, and then you are what a lot of N.G.O.’s call us: “Merchants of misery.”

But if you take the time and really get an understanding of what the story is about, you will come away with an experience. It won’t be just for some World Press Award. It will be: “I understand what these people are going through, and I think we should do something about it.”

Because I think — at the end of the day — we have to be diplomats. I don’t like the word “photojournalism.” It’s been bastardized. I am comfortable with the idea of being a photographer, just being a photographer. I don’t want to be an artist; I want to be a photographer. That’s what I do. And a photographer is someone who looks at the world and tries to make some sense of it for themselves, and for everyone else. And that’s what I want to do.

When I do a story, I go there and I try to understand what is going on. I’ll try to research it before going. I become passionate. It gets under my skin and I get a little bit obsessed. I have a problem with just dashing off to a place because there is violence and death and destruction and we think it’s going to help our career. There is a whole young group of photographers who work with that mindset, and the problem with that is that they give all of us a bad name.

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- Stanley Greene, in an interview on The New York Times Lens Blog

"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way."

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:13:18 -0500

“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”

- Darcel Turner

Mikkel Vang

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:23:59 -0500

Frank Chimero: Public Tools and Your Private Stash

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:20:54 -0500

Frank Chimero: Public Tools and Your Private Stash:

If you are an artist or designer or any sort of creative person, there are two really, really, really important things once you’re finished with a project:

Getting paid.

Getting credit.

That’s it. I feel like the obviousness of this is implicit, however, I think a friendly reminder is due for…

"While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see..."

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:04:43 -0500

“While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.”

- Dorothea Lange

Nirrimi

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:03:51 -0500

Mary Robinson

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 17:02:43 -0500

Jim Denevan

Sat, 26 Jun 2010 17:02:42 -0500

"I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything."

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:43:58 -0500

“I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.”

- John Steinbeck

Hannah Davis

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 07:45:49 -0500

"Actually, I’m not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in..."

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 05:05:49 -0500

“Actually, I’m not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I’m not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren’t cooks.”

- Henri Carter-Bresson

Mike Mabes

Sun, 20 Jun 2010 03:45:50 -0500

"It’s weird that photographers spend years or even a whole lifetime, trying to capture moments..."

Sat, 19 Jun 2010 02:45:49 -0500

“It’s weird that photographers spend years or even a whole lifetime, trying to capture moments that added together, don’t even amount to a couple of hours.”

- James Lalropui Keivom

Joe Wright

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 02:25:49 -0500

"Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no..."

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:05:51 -0500

“Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.”

- Henri Carter-Bresson

Lucie Camp

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 01:45:49 -0500

I’m always anticipating the next post from Friends of...

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:51:21 -0500

I’m always anticipating the next post from Friends of Type, a collaborative project dedicated simply to discipline, self-expression, and the encouragement to other creatives to consistently work at their craft.

Carles Rodrigo

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:07:00 -0500

"I like to think of photographing as a two-way act of respect. Respect for the medium, by letting it..."

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:16:40 -0500

“I like to think of photographing as a two-way act of respect. Respect for the medium, by letting it do what it does best, describe. And respect for the subject, by describing as it is. A photograph must be responsible to both.”

- Gary Winogrand