How To Fine-Tune Your Artist Statement

Follow these steps to fine-tune your artist statement and make it the best it can possibly be

Amy Touchette

Once you’ve written your artist statement, you’ll want to fine-tune it to make it the best it can possibly be. Follow these steps: Compare your draft to your project and to your practice as a photographer. Do the ideas and details portray you and your photography authentically? Delete those that don’t. Do any of the images in your series... Read more

How To Write Your Artist Statement

Communicate your project and personal vision in your artist statement with these writing tips

Amy Touchette

An artist statement conveys not just what our images say, but all the things they can’t, by their very nature, say. It’s also a way to communicate our project and personal vision to others who aren’t privy to our thoughts and creative process. It tells people in our industry that we are serious, dedicated; that we’ve put time into thinking... Read more

Anatomy Of A Photo: Golden Hour Light

The importance of the quality and direction of light is when it comes to composing your photo

Brian Matiash

Sony a7R III | Sony FE 24-70mm f/2.8 GM 160 sec. at f/8.0; ISO 400 August 24, 2019 Cedar Breaks National Monument, UT It’s hard not to overstate just how important the quality and direction of light is when it comes to composing your photo. While there are lots of ways to create beautiful photos during the middle of the day, when the sun is at its... Read more

Why You Actually Do Want To Write Your Artist Statement

Because when we write about our photographs, we’re forced to express what they portray and what compelled us to make them

Amy Touchette

We see the world in visual terms and we express ourselves through visual art. Had we wanted to express ourselves with words, we would have become writers, right? And yet, crafting an artist statement or writing about our work in some form, for one reason or the other, is inevitably asked of us. The good news is that any discomfort or frustration you... Read more

The Fundamentals Of Model And Property Releases

From individuals to property owners, find out under what circumstances you need model and property releases

Amy Touchette

When do you need to get a model release? Is the person in the photograph identifiable? If no, you don’t need a model release. If the person is identifiable, ask yourself: Is the image being used to advertise a product or service? If yes, get a model release. Is the image being used to further the interests of a business? If yes, get a model release. Do... Read more

How To Organize Your Digital Archive

Because if you can’t find your images, then they are as good as not taken

Amy Touchette

Any professional photographer will tell you that the time they spend on administrative tasks is probably double the time they spend actually photographing. Ranked most important among those administrative duties is the ongoing management of their digital archive. Because if you can’t find your images, then they are as good as not taken. The hardest... Read more

Use Apple Keynote For Video Motion Graphics

Apple Keynote is a great alternative to Adobe After Effects or Apple Motion for motion graphics for Final Cut Pro X, Premiere, Resolve or any NLE

PhotoJoseph

If you’ve been wanting to make awesome animated lower thirds, animated callouts, title sequences and more, but don’t have the chops or want to learn Adobe After Effects or Apple Motion, then Apple Keynote may be the solution for you. Check out this tutorial on how to go from Keynote to Final Cut Pro X (or Premiere or Resolve), and see what... Read more

Find Inspiration In The Ordinary

Letting your mind explore without any expectations can help you get out of a creative funk

Brian Matiash

I suspect that more than a few of you will be able to relate to this story, and that’s exactly why I want to share it. I was recently in a pretty big creative funk that I couldn’t shake. That tends to happen whenever I find myself having to be creative on a deadline and the ol’ muse just isn’t cooperating. I just couldn’t get into a groove... Read more

Exploitative Labor Practices At Louisiana State Penitentiary

30 years of photographs by Calhoun and McCormick at the Brooklyn Museum of Art

Amy Touchette

Men Going to Work in the Fields of Angola. 2004. Courtesy of the artist. © Chandra McCormick The impact of a photographer’s long-term commitment to a subject matter can’t be denied. When a body of photographs portrays people and a place over an extended period of time, viewers get the rare opportunity to start piecing together a much more holistic... Read more

Speaking With Documentary Photographer And Photojournalist Glenna Gordon—Part 3

The final interview with the photographer about her journey across Nigeria

By Amy Touchette

The train reaches Zaria around midnight and the station is mainly deserted. Photo by Glenna Gordon. In August 2015, photojournalist Glenna Gordon was commissioned by The New York Times Magazine to photograph her 720-mile train journey across Nigeria, from Lagos to Kano, for its first-ever Voyages issue. (You can read part one and part two of this series.) It... Read more

Anatomy Of A Photo: Working With A Longer Focal Length

Creating an eight-image pano with a ZEISS prime lens

Brian Matiash

Sony a7R III | ZEISS Batis 2.8/135 1/320 sec. at f/2.8; ISO 100 | 8 images pano-stitched August 10, 2019 Utah It’s rare that I’d ever head off anywhere, even locally, without bringing at least one camera and lens with me. I may not bring filters or a tripod, but I’ll always carry a camera with me, just in case. Usually, I’ll change which lens... Read more

Speaking With Documentary Photographer And Photojournalist Glenna Gordon—Part 2

Photojournalist Glenna Gordon talks more about her journey across Nigeria in this second of a three articles

By Amy Touchette

Aisha Lawan, the little girl in the red dress, takes the train from Lagos to Ibadan with her family. Photo by Glenna Gordon. In August 2015, photojournalist Glenna Gordon was commissioned by The New York Times Magazine to photograph her 720-mile train journey across Nigeria, from Lagos to Kano, for its first-ever Voyages issue. (You can read part one... Read more

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