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It’s been a weird and wonderful week of changes (more on that later… maybe).
I want to welcome the newest subscribers here, and hope you find some value in the links and posts, and discover some new things. Two of my most popular posts are on bad photo editors and getting your $hit in order and they should give you a taste of my longer-form posts, in between are posts like this with 5 interesting links. Also a huge thank you and big hugs to the FIVE new paid subscribers for supporting my coffee habit — if you haven’t sent me your address yet, I owe you a homemade postcard, so drop me a quick note with a good place to mail it.
Brain dump: I’m finally reading Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend because I’m curious how it landed at the #1 spot on the NYTimes list of the top 100 books of the 21st century. It’s been an amazing summer of sport, from the Euros and Copa America to the Tour de France, the Olympics and now the Tour de Femmes. I’m excited that both the Paralympic games and La Vuelta (Tour de España) are starting up soon. And so in the interim, I’m giving my brain a break and binging the two newest seasons of Love is Blind — Mexico and the UK. Because why not?!
As a photographer, I’m in downtown DC — a lot. Most of the assignment work is on/around The Hill. So I’ve walked those streets around the U.S. Capitol quite a bit. I think this is why I couldn’t stop looking at these prints of DC in the National Archives that an FSA photographer took in 1937. They’re showing me a scene I haven’t seen before. What an incredibly telling, historic record.
Here are 5 other things I was looking at or listening to and loving this week:
“For much of Western history, the idea of — and even the word for — happiness was inextricably linked to chance.” Lots of food for thought here…
I love this next installment of Irina Werning’s long-hair project: the Kichwa MEN of Ecuador. Her previous work on Las Pelilargas is stunning and on her website.
TIL: Photography is The Most Lethal Activity at Grand Canyon National Park
Debi Cornwall is a brilliant and thoughtful photographer, so I really enjoyed hearing her talk about her work on the A Small Voice podcast. Also, the story about her shooting film in Gitmo is NUTS.
Striking the right balance between words and images is tricky. Here are Four Great Photography Books Where Words Add Power to Pictures. Speaking of photography books, I’d like to make it to this exhibit on photobook art at the National Gallery of Art before it’s gone in two weeks. Has anyone else been yet? If so, I’d love to hear your thoughts on it. (Andrew Glickman, I’m looking at you!)