Reciprocity Failure on Portraits:
[portraits] gives us reason to pause, focus and reflect at the wonder and challenges of their lives... as well as our own. You can't ask more of any portrait. [previously here]via Russell Frederick by Reciprocity Failure.
Entered this photo in the Art and About 2016, Australian Life Competition. A great quote about portraits and it is what inspired me to enter a portrait this year.
anyone with a $300 laptop can use the very same tools as the people at the top of just about any industry. [..]via The very same software by Seth Godin.If you want to learn, do research, make a ruckus... your local library has access to the same tools as you'll find in a skyscraper in a big company.
I've realised this for a long time and now I have the opportunity to make something of it here at the Glebe Library. Really making some great progress with everything that Seth mentions in his post - The very same software - and I am excited about what I am creating.
Richard B. Woodward on Walker Evans:
Walker Evans’s subjects were never sensational or celebrities—his genius was in his ability to exploit the medium’s natural bias, to find beauty in the mundane.via ‘Walker Evans: Depth of Field’ Review: Unwinding the DNA of American Photography by William Meyers.
Xyza Cruz Bacani on Street Photography:
The thing I like the most about street photography? It’s free, [..] I shoot daily to relieve my stress. It’s my way of having fun.via Filipino photographer Xyza Cruz Bacani’s story of perseverance is inspiring by James Gabrillo.
Richie Porte on Passion and Stupidity:
There’s passion and there’s stupidity and it’s not such a fine line between them.via Porte, on chaotic Ventoux mishap: ‘If you can’t control the crowds, then what can you control?’ by Cycling Tips.
I want to bring in the discipline of the art and essentially want them to include the five Ws (what, why, where, when, who) in their pictures. So many narratives are often overlooked in this frenzy of shooting unnecessary, mundane things. And many times we don’t concentrate on the things we should actually be looking at.via Street-savvy photography by Anahita Panicker.
the world is one of self-presentation and surfaces. You can try to go deeper if you want to, but the surface is where you have to start. If you are smart, it is where you will stay.via Diane Arbus’s Strange and Surreal Visions of New York by David Freedlander.
Del Kathryn Barton on Portraits:
There has to be a really tangible, palpable connection between you and the sitter. The best portraits are about sincerity and connection.via Archibald Prize: six winners on what it has meant for them and how to paint a contender by Nick Galvin.
Jesse Marlow on Street Photography:
The essence of street photography is that it won't be the same in an hour's time .. It's about developing a stylevia Has Instagram changed photography forever? CCP's birthday brings the present into focus by Ray Edgar.
Maybe I have developed my own style on the street? Something I will explore more with time.
Is where you are now your end game, or are you simply not stepping up?via When you hit the wall by Beate Chelette.
Just a few random quotes to keep myself motivated.
Darren Campion on Relationships:
We are the sum of our relationships, whatever form they might take.via Paolo Morales by Darren Campion.
Joel Spolsky on Communication:
the most successful people are the ones who can explain their ideas the bestvia Stack Overflow founder Spolsky: The three skills every software developer should learn by Nick Heath.
Geoff Dyer on Hope, Optimism and Disappointment:
I'm still full of hope and optimism, which is a precondition for being disappointedvia Geoff Dyer interview: The crucial question of trust in his writing by Michelle Griffin.
Everyone should do this. When you play you need a vision of something. It can be human, it can be a tree, it can be abstract, it can be happiness ...via Giovanni Sollima breaks rules with the ACO by Nick Galvin.
Liz Jobey on Diane Arbus:
How do we become the people we want to be? How do we overcome our genetics and our gender, how do we transform ourselves? How do children become adolescents and adolescents become adults? How do adults become parents, how do children distinguish themselves? These are essential questions throughout her work.via Diane Arbus: the magic mirror by Liz Jobey.
Kevin McCleod on Passion:
Don’t confuse passion and energy for eccentricityvia Grand Designs: Kevin McCloud on the renovation job sites since 1999 by Graeme Blundell.
Joel Meyerowitz on Street Photography:
[street photography is] an arms-length contact with somebodyvia Spain : Miss Maier by Tintin Törncrantz by Tintin Törncrantz.
