Notes from: Photographing the Personal
I’ve just finished listening to Photographing the Personal, a live webinar featuring Briony Campbell (The Dad Project), Philip Toledano (Days with My Father), Sohrab Hura (Life is Elsewhere) and Leonie Purchas (In the Shadow of Things). For anyone working on a personal project in the most personal sense of the word — one about their [...]
notebook Q&A: Eric Maierson on Three Women
It’s been just over a week since I received this email from Eric Maierson: “Thanks for all the great plugs for MediaStorm. Did you have a chance to check out ‘Three Women’? Be curious to hear your thoughts.” Thus began an email conversation about Eric’s new piece — a series of three monologues depicted with [...]
Contemplating Three
Book cover of Three, by Ed Kashi. A couple of weeks ago I picked up a copy of Ed Kashi’s Three at the ICP bookstore. Bit by bit I’ve been poking through it, delighting in the pages that in some cases fold out to present the photos in each triptych side by side on individual pages. [...]
95% grant writer, contest enterer, Final Cut editor . . .
Brent Foster is once again writing a week-long blog at NPAC. For those of us from the Canadian photojournalism community and his photojournalism school alma mater, Loyalist College, who look to the 27-year-old former staff photog turned multimedia wunderkind as a bit of a mentor, Foster puts his year as a freelancer in perspective in [...]
Frank
Robert Frank contact sheet. From the website of the National Gallery of Art, which has a tidbit of info on the editing and sequencing of The Americans. Instead of having my first Columbus Day off, I was off today. I chose to spend part of it looking at Looking in: The Americans, the Robert Frank [...]
Magnum in Motion
On Thursday I started a three-month internship at Magnum in Motion, along with Eva Filgueira, a photographer from Spain. After getting a sense of what MIMs and photographers we were attracted to, and why, Adrian Kelterborn gave Eva and me our first assignments. I’m excited to be working on a piece on a photographer who [...]
Every Image Tells A Story
I may have gone back to school for photography, but I love audio. I always have, ever since taking radio broadcasting during my Bachelor of Journalism at Carleton University. Back then, many a late night was spent in the editing suites, slicing tape with razor blades, taping the edit points together, getting pieces of said [...]
Human being
I’m in the middle of getting resettled in Toronto. I realize I have not really been home much this past year – May and June I was in Belleville, then there were a couple weeks last July in Oaxaca, August was spent in New York, then it was back to school in September, a few [...]
Always an editor
It’s funny how going back to school for photojournalism has made me realize how much I like editing. But editing is no longer about ledes, copy, headlines, decks and cutlines, as per my life on the desk at the Star and on Starweek, and, several years before, at the Globe. For the past couple of weeks we [...]
Creer Down: Mary Ellen’s edit
Below, the images of mine Mary Ellen Mark chose for our class “book” during her 10-day workshop in Oaxaca, Mexico, July 6 – 16, 2008, and in the order that they appeared. Eva, Sandra and Freddie, students at Escuela Creer Down, a day school for children and adults with Down Syndrome. After a sudden rain [...]
