Eliot Porter

“Celebrate the life and work of Santa Fe photographer Eliot Porter. For more than a half of a century Porter pursued the natural world with his view through a camera. He had numerous publications, most notably with the Sierra Club. “In wilderness is the preservation...

Eliot Porter – Environmental Advocacy Through The Arts

No other photographer is more influential to me than Eliot Porter – save my father. I knew Eliot through my mother’s long collaboration with him designing and overseeing the production of over twelve of his books during my formative years. His influences on me are too...

Adam Fuss – Visible Traces

Adam Fuss’ photograms encourage you to think about photography, in different ways and much more broadly. His life-sized camera-less photograms represent one man’s attempt to work with, explore, and see subjects, media, and perception more directly. By making camera-less images, Fuss eliminates many distortions inherent...

Exploring The Expressive Possibilities Of Aspect Ratio

Distortions of the same image explore aspect ratio expressively The proportion of an image’s frame is a fundamental part of its statement. Unlike many documentary photographers who keep the proportion of their image frames constant to reduce their presence and suggest that their images haven’t...

Andy Goldsworthy – Ephemeral Collaborations With Nature

Andy Goldsworthy considers his sculptures collaborations with nature. It’s Goldsworthy’s pieces that don’t persist that impress me most. Why? It’s not because they reverse traditional expectations, that through art an individual and culture achieves extended longevity if not immortality. It’s because Goldsworthy is free to...

Joyce Tenneson – Video Conversation

Joyce Tenneson shares here thoughts on Beauty, Skin, and Empowering Others. Read our extended conversation here. Find out more about Joyce Tenneson here.

Masterworks In My Collection – Joyce Tenneson – Kristin, Hands In The Air

Artist’s often use consistent palettes for separate bodies of work, some use a consistent palette for a lifetime. This not only makes their work more readily identifiable, it also clarifies the nature of the statements they make. When an artist does this color becomes more...

Outliers – What They Are And How To Make Them Fit

The single ground-level image above is an outlier in this series of aerial images. Read the article to find out more. See the solution at the end.   Outliers are the images that don’t fit neatly, testing the code of a body of work. Images...

John Sexton's Favorite Quotes

John Sexton shares his favorite quotes. This is my favorite from his selection. “The harder you work, the luckier you get.” – Ansel Adams Which is your favorite of his selected quotes? Read more of John’s favorite quotes here. Read his quick Q&A here. Read...

How Lightroom Impacted My Antarctica Project

(This piece first appeared on Adobe Stories. Find other Adobe Stories here.) Having developed an international reputation for creating altered photographs with ecological concerns, in Antarctica I became interested in creating an editorial (relatively unaltered) body of work to compare and contrast these two modes of...