Here are the notes I kept a month after I bought an Intrepid 4x5 camera, and reviewed it after nine months. It is very condensed compared to other writings. It contains a lot of notes for those who are eyeing to take the plunge into large format photography, as they say.
It also includes some notes about what to look for in a large format camera. It's detailed, because I like details. It's not only technical, but also about what it means to the subject. . thephoblographer.com
"As long as I can remember, I’ve always loved to observe the world around me," says photographer Anna Neubauer to the Phoblographer in an interview. "I would often spend hours sitting in one spot, watching the light change and the colors shift.
I like to tell myself a little white lie: we’re returning to the old ways in photography because we’re realizing that they’re best. The truth, of course, is a deeper conversation around a lack of originality and self-rediscovery.
Last year, IKEA brought on Annie Leibovitz as an "artist in residence" and gave her the task to better visually represent how media presents the reality of life at home.
British documentary photographer Edward Thompson released an infrared medium-format photography book, The Unseen: An Atlas of Infrared Prints, in 2016 and is showing selected works from the book at the Saatchi Gallery in London until March 3. [Read More]
“America is heartbreakingly beautiful, with its vistas and distant horizons, as well as deserts, swamps, prairies, and mountain ranges,” says photographer Florence Montmare in an interview with the Phoblographer.
The Honest Amish National Beard and Moustache Championships took place earlier this month in Daytona Beach, Florida with the finest hairy chins in the land vying for the top prizes. [Read More]
"A standard headshot or portrait from a shoot are never my favorite," says photographer Levi Manchak to the Phoblographer in an interview. "I tend to prefer selecting a photo that's original, something I haven't consciously seen before or had some emotional effect on me when I took it.