Timothy Archibald’s Echolilia
“I knew he was tuned differently, and I needed to build a bridge, get inside his head, learn what made him tick.’’ – photographer Timothy Archibald on his son Eli (above), on today’s Lens blog. For a while I’ve been wanting to post something about Timothy Archibald’s Echolilia after coming across it this summer when I [...]
Creativity, photography, energy
PhotoSensitive I’ve been a little MIA in posting recently, instead often using Twitter to share things of interest. I’ve also started a new job, working a couple days a week for PhotoSensitive. The non-profit Canadian photo collective has embarked on a new project, Energy, and I’m helping to get students involved in a mini version of [...]
PhotoSensitive’s 20th anniversary
In mid-September, PhotoSensitive celebrated its 20th anniversary with the retrospective exhibition and book Field of Vision: 20 Years of Social Change. Also produced for the event was this seven-and-a-half minute video featuring interviews with several of the founding photographers including Dick Loek, Peter Bregg, Bernard Weil, Patti Gower and Tony Hauser.
Animated poetry, creative collaboration
Anticipating How To Be Alone will soon make a MediaStorm or Multimedia Shooter must-watch list. For now, it’s on mine. (Via NFB on Facebook.) Poem and performance by Tanya Davis, film (animation, photography and editing) by Andrea Dorfman. Walter Forsyth is the producer.
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 [...]
The Boy in the Moon
In a post a couple months ago, my friend Lucas wrote that he wanted to photograph the way Karen Dalton sang. On the weekend, curled up on the couch reading Ian Brown’s The Boy in the Moon, I realized something I’ve been trying to put my finger on for a while: I want to photograph [...]
Soul Journey
A few things have been kicking around in my head lately, spurred initially by a conversation I had with a friend about intimacy, or more specifically, false intimacy. The conversation was online – and this way of communicating was actually a part of our quasi-philosophical discussion. Then a few days ago, while going through the process [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
What I’ve been reading/watching
. . . . LA Times piece on shelter options for homeless. . . . . about Julie Winokur and Ed Kashi’s Talking Eyes Media . . . . and their piece on taking care of Julie’s father, Herbie, in The Sandwich Generation as well as the various edits/versions of the story, which, in total, [...]
Advice to young photographers: “Wear Good Shoes”
At least twice in the past couple weeks I’ve seen other shooters link to “Wear Good Shoes: Advice to Young Photographers,” Alec Soth’s blog posting on Magnum’s site. It’s also downloadable as a pdf. Thanks, Fred Lum and Lucas Mulder. It’s a list of 35 responses by Magnum photographers to these questions: When did you first get excited about photography? What advice [...]
Multimedia gets the wheels turning
This morning’s multimedia class with the National Post’s Tyler Anderson has given me the kick I needed to start to think about stories I want to tell with photos, video and audio. One point he made, citing examples from his own work: that only you as a journalist can tell them is important. It’s something [...]
