Introducing #PhotosWeLove
Exploring the how, why, and what we love about photographs, one picture at a time
In March, we saw this tweet from our friend Andy Adams.
While photography is at the height of its popularity (today, tomorrow, and next week) there doesn’t seem to be a corresponding rise in the discussion about what makes photography great.
Andy’s tweet made us think, “yeah, we all love photography, but how and why and what for?”
Photos We Love is an attempt to close the gap left behind by the ease of clicking “like”, “fave”, or all these hearts.
As a photography festival, we’re eager to inspire people to share stories about why they love photography, what they love about photographs, and figured Medium would be a great place for the conversation.
You could be a photographer, curator, collector, scholar, or just a fan of your friend’s blazing Instagram feed. We want to publish your stories, articles, remembrances, and hot takes about photographs you love. Because then, they’ll become #PhotosWeLove.
Photograph Magazine has been engaged with this exact idea in their “Back Page” feature. Here are two examples from this year; Mona Kuhn on a Theodore Miller photo (below), or more recently, Anthony Hernandez on Paul Strand.
Write your piece (on Medium) and send us a link (via twitter, facebook, or email) and we’ll add it to #PhotosWeLove.
Thank you for contributing to a growing community that expresses HOW and WHY we love the photographic image!
— MDM for ACP. May, 2016
(I’ve also “seeded” the feed with two pieces I wrote awhile ago that contemplate a single photo — or in one case, a frame of film…)
