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Mid-Life: 52 (opens the original)
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I complained a while back that I needed a project but I couldn’t find a good theme. A project gives direction and meaning to your photography and I had the feeling that I was flapping about without a clear goal.The projectRecently, it hit me: At the end of this week I’ll be 52. I’m half the age of my grandmother. If I live as long as she has so far (she’s still going), I’m half way through my life. Then I realised that 52 is also the number of weeks in a year. So why not start a projec
Photographer Focus #10: Christine Spengler (opens the original)
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Christine Spengler’s first camera wasn’t hers. It was her brother Éric’s. A Nikon with a 28mm wide-angle, the kit of a fashion photographer, and in 1970 she borrowed it in Chad and took her first photograph. She had never looked through a lens before.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0swY!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F37e1d4f5-b8a8
Can A Machine Be Co-Author? (opens the original)
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There’s a literary scandal in France this week, and it has to do with AI use: Thélyson Orélien wrote C’était ça ou mourir, the book of the season. It was sold about 50,000 times already, critics are unanimously praising it, the Fnac prize, in the running for the Goncourt, the Médicis and the Femina, three major literary prizes in France. A big deal.Then someone said that they checked the book with Pangram (not sure how unless they typed the book themselves for analysis, but let’s ignore that) an
Your Body Of Work Thinks Back At You (opens the original)
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I’ve been taking photos of benches for years. Sometimes on purpose because I find them intriguing and I have an thing for objects designed for people but without anybody using them, sometimes just because they were there next to my subject. Last year, looking at these photographs, I noticed something I didn’t know existed in my archive.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OOxK!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-po
Photographer focus #9: Hiromix (opens the original)
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I’ve spent a lot of words arguing that the ordinary is enough. To me, documenting your own life is the most interesting thing you can do for your own future self. And as I mentioned before, I see Japanese photography as the centre of that approach.So when a Substack note appeared on my feed the other day about a teenager in Tokyo who’d won a million yen with a photocopied zine of her own life, I knew who they were talking
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