Stephen Johnson – Video Conversation

Stephen Johnson and I discuss personal important moments in photography. Read our extended conversation here. Learn more about Stephen Johnson here. View more photographers on photography video conversations here.

Sean Kernan – Video Conversation

Sean Kernan and I discuss how one knows when a work of art is finished. Read our extended conversation here. Read Sean’s favorite quotes here. Read Sean’s short Q&A here. Find out more about Sean Kernan here. View more photographers on photography videos here.

Snapshots From Italy

Every year I travel with my son and wife to visit her family in Italy. In between moments at the beach, visits to family members houses, and long meals I steal a moment here and there to make photographs, sometimes lagging behind, sometimes rushing ahead,...

Rank Your Influences

You can learn more about your influences by identifying their relative strengths. This quick exercise will not only help you understand how different works influence you but also begin to reveal why they influence you. It’s time well spent. Make a ranked sorted list of...

Exhibit – Maine / Process & Place – 8/4-5

In an inspiring dual exhibit Maine / Process & Place, John Paul Caponigro collects images drawn from over 23 years of living in Maine and offers a rare look into his unique creative process. Place displays works made of the natural wonders of Maine; from Acadia National...

New Book – Process

My new book Process details the many aspects of my creative process. I hope you’ll find it to be useful as well as interesting. “An artist’s creations come out of far more than the activities in their primary medium. How artist’s get there is, perhaps,...

Aaron Siskind – Literally Abstract

If he wasn’t the first, Aaron Siskind was certainly the preeminent abstract expressionist photographer. The abstract details he presents as new hyper-flat surfaces stand independent of their original subjects. Abstraction in non-representational art celebrated in the modernist movement early 20th century has taken many forms;...

Edward Burtynsky – Manufactured Landscapes

Edward Burtynsky’s photographs deftly weave together aspects of a well-researched documentary expose and a beautifully constructed formal artistic statement, but it’s unclear which is more dominant, or if they’re something else entirely. Burtynsky let’s the things he photographs speak for themselves. Yet he photographs specific...

Jerry Uelsmann – Visions From The Mind’s Eye

Since the 1950’s Jerry Uelsmann has created his surreal photographs entirely in the traditional black-and-white darkroom combining multiple negatives seamlessly into new visual realities, ones that didn’t exist before the camera eye at one moment in time but were found in the mind’s eye over...

Richard Misrach – A Life’s Work

Richard Misrach has dedicated himself to a single project for a lifetime – the Desert Cantos. Begun in 1979, the Desert Cantos is a series of series that takes its name from its location, the American desert southwest, and the structural term for a subsection...