Alumn Cira Crowell – Exhibition & Book – "Envisioning Ecstasy"

In the summer of 2013 I had the fortune of travelling to Ladakh, India, a remote Himalayan kingdom that is now far Northwestern India, bordered by Pakistani controlled Kasmir and Chinese controlled Tibet.  Ladakh’s high desert rises from valley floors at 12,000 feet to the mountain peaks at...

All About The Image – The Interview

All About The Image’s Woodrow Walden did a short and sweet interview with me by email recently. You can read the final results here. And you can compare the rough cut Q&A version here. Personal WW    Have you always known you wanted to be...

Alumnus Olaf Willoughby – On Being Interviewed & Interviewing

In June 2015, Olaf will be co-teaching ‘Visual Conversations’, a creative photography workshop with Eileen McCarney Muldoon at Maine Media College in Rockport. They will also be running a LightDance workshop in Brooklyn in Sep 2015.  Olaf Willoughby is a photographer, writer and researcher. He is...

19 Quotes By Photographer Edward Steichen

Enjoy this collection of quotes by photographer Edward Steichen. “No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.” – Edward Steichen “I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself…” – Edward Steichen “Art for art’s sake is dead, if it ever...

18 Quotes By Photographer Michael Kenna

  Enjoy this collection of quotes by photographer Michael Kenna. “I do have strong convictions and political opinions, but I don’t think it’s necessary to imbue my photographic work with them. I use photography as a vessel for visual material to flow through, to encourage...

15 Quotes By Photographer Emmet Gowin

  Enjoy this collection of quotes by photographer Emmet Gowin. “Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn’t attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something you don’t see.” – Emmet Gowin “All important pictures embody something that we...

Alumnus Olaf Willoughby – Collaboration Workshop

“Actors on a Stage” It was a lightbulb moment. The ship chugged and crunched its way through pack ice. The excited babble of the photographers fell to an awestruck silence as we passed one of Antarctica’s most inspiring sights, an iceberg the size of an...

12 Quotes By Photographer John Pfahl

  Enjoy this collection of quotes by photographer John Pfahl. “People think the camera steals their soul. Places, I am convinced, are affected in the opposite direction. The more they are photographed (or drawn and painted) the more soul they seem to accumulate.” – John...

Alumnus Sam Krisch – The Creative Curator

Image courtesy of Taubman Museum This is a guest post by Sam Krisch, a John Paul Caponigro Next Step Alumnus who lives and works in Roanoke, Virginia. He has curated an exhibition entitled Paul Caponigro and John Paul Caponigro: Generations which will be showing at...

40 Quotes On Perfection

Here’s a collection of my favorite quotes on perfection. “They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they’d make up their minds.” – Winston Churchill “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.”...