ninebagatelles:

“Photography is a highly edited, subjective vision of the world, but the medium presents itself—and is often misused by photographers—as a form of objectivity. There is, of course, no way to make objective documentary work, and any attempt to do so is flawed, misleading and disingenuous. But the fact is that the motivation to make “documentary” work often stems from the desire to present a specific vision of the world as objective fact. Not only is such a working method manipulative, it presumes a lack of agency and visual sophistication on the part of its viewer, who is asked to accept the photographer’s truth in its entirety.”

Gregory Halpern


All Visual Triangle: AVT 6

Participating artists:

Phil Bergevin
Andy Berner
Jaclyn Brown
Kelly Burgess
Jon Campolo
Aaron Canipe
Graham Cox
Harlan Crichton
Peter Eversoll
Chris Fowler
Jodie Goodnough
Logan Haley-Winsett
Brit Hessler
Nick Jojola
Ward Long
Brittany Marcoux
Jim Neuner
Nathan Pearce
Sarah Pfohl
Jared Ragland - Eliot Dudik
Camilo Ramirez
Laura Beth Reese
Jordan Swartz
Bob Tankersley


06-20 / 22:43 / 4 notes

“…time changes everything and because of that, it is important to make photographs, because photographs, among their other virtues, are markers of time.”

Laurel Nakadate, “The Photographer’s Playbook”


03-25 / 8:30 / 2 notes

“One reason that people have artist’s block is that they do not respect the law of dormancy in nature. Trees don’t produce fruit all year long, constantly. They have a point where they go dormant. And when you are in a dormant period creatively, if you can arrange your life to do the technical tasks that don’t take creativity, you are essentially preparing for the spring when it will all blossom again.”

Marshall Vandruff (via blue-voids)


“To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.” -Elliott Erwitt


12-18 / 9:52 / 1 note

“although I like to think there is continuity of subject, it’s just what you come across and how you try to deal with it. You can’t control it totally; that’s the thing about photography, it pulls you into the world. And that’s the thing about looking through the camera: yes, you have that archive of images in your head, but it’s never that in the viewfinder. It’s always some kind of compromise between what you’re looking for and what is there. It’s almost democratic in that it forces a negotiation between intention and the actual nature of the world.”

John Divola, 2005 (via adambellefeuil)


This year I’ve been really fortunate to get to travel and make work with so many good people in so many lovely places. My most recent adventure has brought me to a little cottage in Kittery, Maine with @katieanndenis for @paypal,@passionpassport, and #MeetHalfway.
Katie and I met this September on the #passportexpress and we were lucky enough to get paired as roommates and even luckier still to have ended up being such close friends right from the start. Her home is in LA while mine is in Boston and we left the train not knowing when we’d get to see each other again. A few months later, her work had brought her to Maine and we decided to meet halfway between Boston and Portland, ME and celebrate the upcoming holidays together.