HeyJaredHeart, mind, and camera
For photographers who think deeply about their craft, weekly essays on seeing, making, and meaning.
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Summertime (opens the original)
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This esteemed publication is on a break for the rest of the summer and will be back in your inbox with fresh energy in September.In the meantime, here’s my postcard to you from Egypt:<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="971" src="https://substackc
Is There Life Outside of Photography? (opens the original)
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has a series called Lens 2 Lens where she publishes conversations she has with other photographers. This month, I am the other photographer.The conversation is about how photography can become an integrated part of life that helps us express ourselves, preserve memories, and understand the places we live in. We talk about the importance of having a creative outlet, how photographing a place depends on our relationship to it, and how art isn’t separate from life.You can read the full conversation
Photo break #65 (opens the original)
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How to become an artist (opens the original)
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In the spring of 2017, I was sitting by a river in Laos writing in a black Moleskine notebook. It had around 240 pages and I was traveling for around 6 months. I wanted to think of myself as the kind of person who filled notebook after notebook, but the truth is I came home with it half empty. There’s almost nothing in that notebook that I can recall off the top of my head except this idea I wrote about sitting by the river: I had ideas and emotions that are waiting to be expressed. I now realiz
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