Making Photographs: Light, Place, and the Art of Seeing
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Breathe . . . and Have Faith. (opens the original)
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Winter Wheat (opens the original)
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April 2026 marked the 10th year that I have been writing about photography. I don’t write about film and lenses and cameras (don’t ask me what camera you should buy for your nephew); rather, I write about what photography teaches us about our world and about ourselves. In early 2016, I sent Tim Anderson, Editor and Publisher of Shadow & Light Magazine, some of my work, and he published it. Since then, Tim’s magazine became the primary home for my writing. Both an editorial relationship and a fri
Every Photograph Has Ancestors (opens the original)
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April 2026 marked the 10th year that I have been writing about photography. I don’t write about film and lenses and cameras (don’t ask me what camera you should buy for your nephew); rather, I write about what photography teaches us about our world and about ourselves. In early 2016, I sent Tim Anderson, Editor and Publisher of Shadow & Light Magazine, some of my work, and he published it. Tim’s magazine became the primary home for my writing. Both an editorial relationship and a friendship were
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