When we start taking interest in anything, our first instinct is to learn and we are eager to do just that. Over the years, I’ve watched many tutorials and read many books on the subject. While I’m not done learning, I think that it is time to free myself a little. I recall when I [...]
Pedro Meyer is one of the pioneers and most recognized representatives of contemporary photography. He was the founder and president of the Consejo Mexicano de Fotografía(Mexican Council of Photography) and organizer of the first three Latin American Photography Colloquiums. Besides his artistic photographic work, Pedro Meyer has been a teacher in various prestigious institutions, as well as the [...]
I am one of those really annoying people that want everything to happen over night. It does not mean that I will not be putting in the work to achieve it, it just means that I am extremely impatient. The great thing about putting the work is that amazing things happen when you are not [...]
While at work yesterday and contemplating packing everything in and just walk out, I came across today's image and the condition in which I captured it. First of all, it was in the dead of winter, it was snowing and by the time I put my camera on the tripod I could no longer feel [...]
"Photography is the easiest art, which perhaps makes it the hardest" - Lisette Model Lisette Model was born in Vienna, where she studied piano and compositional theory with Arnold Schönberg before moving to Paris. She discontinued her musical career in 1933, and discovered photography through her sister Olga and her friend Rogi André, André Kertész's [...]
Each I switch on my computer lately it is to edit an image or sometimes two or 3 images at the time. I’m not saying this is a bad thing but it is what I love to do. To be honest it is what I am passionate about. I’m passionate about the process and I [...]
Alice Austen was an American photographer born the 17th of March, 1866. Austen became interested in photography when her uncle, Oswald Müller, brought home a camera around 1876. Alice's uncle Peter Townsend Austen was a chemistry professor at Rutgers who taught her photographic processing. Peter and Oswald converted a closet on the second floor into Alice's [...]
