A Print is Worth 1,000 Instagrams
January 12, 2013
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Sure you took plenty of photos over the holidays - from Thanksgiving through New Year's Eve, the digital cameras and smartphones were going off like fireworks - there were 10 million images uploaded to Instagram on Turkey Day alone.
But what will happen to most of those photos? They'll disappear deep into our Facebook timelines, or remain on mem...
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On Location: Family Portraits on the Streets of New York
December 28, 2012
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We've all seen tourists in New York City asking a stranger to snap a photo of them in front of Grand Central Terminal, on top of the Empire State Building, or in Central Park. Perhaps you've been one of them. Although New York City is one of the safest in America, there's understandably a moment of apprehension - is this guy going to run off with m...
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Condemned Behind the Lens
December 05, 2012
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New Yorkers have been in an uproar over the front cover of the NY Post yesterday, which I intentionally will not show here, and what it tells us about that tabloid’s editorial staff, the photographer who made the image, and about ourselves.
I refer, of course, to the now infamous incident in which a man was pushed onto the subway tracks at the 49t...
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One Thousand Words
November 05, 2012
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When Hurricane Irene hit last year, I covered the event for Bronxville Patch. With my family safely ensconced on the third floor of a pre-war apartment building, I grabbed my weatherproof Pentax K7 and headed out into the storm. Bronxville suffers chronic flooding from the Bronx River, and Irene brought the expected deluge. I took photographs of wa...
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Innovation from the Heart: Henk van Kooten
October 27, 2012
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At the end of a long but inspirational day of seminars at WPPI U at The Javits Center on Wednesday, I walked into the last session, with Dutch photographer Henk van Kooten, unsure of what to expect. I only knew that the title of his seminar, "Shooting Winning Portraits: From Cliche to Creativity" was appealing. I'm not a huge fan of rigidly staged...
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