For me it was a very important and revealing trip – photographically and personally. Travelling through the rural and remote areas of Canada has rejuvenated me and refocused my photography. It has birthed my new “Come Back Soon” project. While visually, the project focuses on the forgotten, unused and “what others left behind” it has [...]
It has been a while. I am well aware of it. There is no question that both time and daily flow have been altered to a certain extent for all of us. It is especially visible in the photographic industry with currents accelerating and revealing a very different way of interacting, working, shooting and even [...]
Many of us remain under more or less strict lockdown, giving us plenty of time to look into our own photography. One of the most important subjects rarely discussed is curation. There is a common misconception that great photographers always shoot great images. Yes of course they do, but they also capture lots of mediocre [...]
One of the greatest joys in my photographic career has been preparing, travelling and teaching the Visual Poet Experience Workshops around the world. I have met hundreds of students over the years, studying and shooting great imagery together. We have become great friends and many of my students now have successful photographic careers, something which [...]
At one point I had no choice but to turn the TV off. The doom-and-gloom that spills out of the screen has exceeded any reality a long time ago. Fortunately, with my refusal to live binge-watch the apocalypse came an unusual burst of photographic energy. Strangely, being confined to a small space has had an [...]
One of the greatest surprises about photography is how it encompasses so much of our lives. From documentary to reportage, from landscape to travel or portrait and even commercial, we interact, observe and craft imagery from those amazing pieces of life that surround us. Burk Uzzle described it well when he said, “Photography is a [...]
I am so grateful to those of you who have been accompanying me throughout my photographic journey. I know it is not an easy endeavour to stick with a photographer who started with landscape, only to shoot travel, street, creative street, then travel and now… I guess this is it. In addition, many of you [...]
How is everyone? For the last few months I have been working on a sequel to my first book "Seeing Simplified - How to see and craft great imagery." In the first book I mostly focused on street and creative imagery, this time I am writing about my approach to travel photography. The new book [...]
Most of my blog posts are quite long. This year, I have been extremely busy working on my new books (yes, there are two in the works), developing my brand new Visual Poet Experience - PRO program and working on the Medium Format Magazine. The last two weeks were especially challenging as gloomy and dark [...]
On our last trip to Montana, I was shooting inside an old Victorian hotel with creaking wooden floors and walls painted pastel earth colours. In one room, the old range sat rusting beside a window. The place was full of photographic opportunities; outside the windows old log cabins sat in the snow. In fact, it [...]
