Joel Meyerowitz on Vivian Maier:
To go up and photograph a stranger on the street you have to hold your ground and be fearless and take what you want because it is yours.via Vivian Maier BBC Imagine (2013) by Joel Meyerowitz.
Will see an exhibition of Vivian Maier photos in Vienna in mid-July.
Martin Gayford on Ordinary and Extraordinary:
great pictures are often images of very commonplace sights.via What makes William Eggleston's ordinary photographs so extraordinary? by Martin Gayford.
We don’t remember some things because we can’t, or because we don’t want to, and we might even remember things that never happened.via Harvey Benge – The Traveller by Jörg Colberg.
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.
When we are stripped of certainty we are in reality. And reality is not always to our liking. Tough Luck.via The Road to Recovery by Maggie Barrett.
When something inside me resonates with what I see, my finger moves to the shutter. In that moment, I have understood and explained both the inner and outer worlds I inhabit. When others see my pictures and react, I know that I have captured a moment in life. These moments are the core of my art.via Why I Take Pictures by Martin Elkort.
If you’re lucky, the horrible thing that happens gives you some distance from the world and it lets you to look at it in a way no one else does. [..]Because you’re the lucky one.
via The Horrible Thing That Happens by I Wrote this for You (Iain S. Thomas.
Hope (*) is a thread that exists in our lives. It has been there since the day we took our first breaths. It has existed alongside us as we built our lives. It exists now in the shattered reality of brokenness. Though we are broken, hope remains strong. In our weakness Hope rises as an unbroken thread stretching out into our uncertain (*) future (*), beckoning us to follow and explore the potential that lies dormant and hidden by our pain. Hope waits. Ready for us to reach out and grasp its firm hand. The question is not if hope exists within our brokenness. The real question is if we are willing and able to allow ourselves to stretch out of our brokenness, our preconceived attitudes, and self imposed assumptions and grasp hold of the only hope that exists, the only hope for our brokenness, our humanity and very existence. There is hope and healing and a future no matter what our circumstances. It is true. I have seen it. There are many others that have shared in it as well and testify of its existence and power and potential. Lift your eyes out of the brokenness and glimpse it, it is before you. You are not alone.via A Message To The Broken (*) by Doug Miller (*).
You are not without HOPE.
When you feel like you’re making pictures - the most important is to make new pictures. The pictures you already took - you already took those pictures. My main drive is to do something new - to make some new kind of picture.via 14 Lessons Mark Cohen Has Taught Me About Street Photography (*) by Eric Kim (*).
I've learned (*) the dangers of my narrowly restricted definitions of image quality. Knowing them can/should become the foundation of my personal work, but they can also be a terrible and unjust barrier to my appreciation of the work of other photographers — especially those whose criteria are different than mine. It is a good idea, I believe, to develop the complimentary skills of knowing our own definitions while simultaneously suspending our personal prejudices when we look at the work of others. Without that, we might miss a lot.via Defining quality (*) by Brooks Jensen (*).
