I’ll be teaching a documentary course and a couple of one day workshops at the University of Victoria. Sign up here http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca Courses are: Documentary Photography: Creating the Personal Project In this course you will learn how to use the techniques of documentary work to create a personal photo project. Participants will examine the work of other documentary photographers and see how and why …
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If You’re Stuck On The Centre, You’ll Miss Everything Else
I hate making mistakes. I especially hate making mistakes that are so basic I should have stopped making them years ago. When I teach photography one point that I really try to drive home is that photographers have to pay attention to the foreground and background in their images. Our eye naturally goes to our subject and we don’t notice unfortunate details in front or …
I Keep Forgetting The Blog Is Just The Delivery Platform
Why am I blogging? Well, the common wisdom when I had my website built was that you had to have a blog with your site. Everybody was doing it. If you wanted to draw attention to yourself and your work then you had to blog. Just having galleries of your photos wasn’t good enough. A blog however, if you posted at least twice a week, …