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Nuanced Views of Opportunity in the San Francisco Bay Area

Nuanced Views of Opportunity in the San Francisco Bay Area

Making sense of education, training and jobs in the shadow of Silicon Valley

Catchlight9 hrs ago

Creativity Unleashed by the Leaps Between Photo, Video and Artistic Direction

Creativity Unleashed by the Leaps Between Photo, Video and Artistic Direction

Have less money and more fun and you’ll do okay, says photographer and director Joannie Lafreniere

Blink11 hrs ago

Finding Mini-Universes in Droplets and Buds

Finding Mini-Universes in Droplets and Buds

In conversation with photographer Monica Royal

Jeffrey Roberts12 hrs ago

John Cobalt

An Instagram Interview

Instagram InterviewsMar 4

Why Am I Here?

In which a photographer writes a blog post about blogging and the symbiotic spokes in the wheel that is social media

Barry Schwartz13 hrs ago

Their Idols are Silver and Gold, the Work of Man’s Hands

Their Idols are Silver and Gold, the Work of Man’s Hands

An Americaville dispatch

Americaville13 hrs ago

When It’s Moving Day In Public Housing

When It’s Moving Day In Public Housing

“We out of here, we out of here. Hopefully it will be today. Gone today.”

Grant Blankenship2 days ago

Raining Cats and Dogs: When Pet Pics Go Viral

Raining Cats and Dogs: When Pet Pics Go Viral

In 2012, they were posted on Reddit. The rest is history … and a photography career.

Jeffrey Roberts2 days ago

Brett Brooner

An Instagram Interview

Instagram InterviewsMar 25

The Headless Caddy, Sleepy Microphones & Nose Play: All in All It’s Just Another Appropriated Wall

The Headless Caddy, Sleepy Microphones & Nose Play: All in All It’s Just Another Appropriated Wall

(Or, when you take a screenshot while driving that’s absolutely the best photograph you’ve made in years.)

Michael David MurphyApr 8

Ringing the Changes at Vantage

Ringing the Changes at Vantage

A personnel tweak at the helm and operations at half-pace

Vantage Staff3 days ago

USER: After a brush with death, I stumbled into a project that gave my life new meaning

USER: After a brush with death, I stumbled into a project that gave my life new meaning

But meaning comes with a cost

Tony Fouhse3 days ago

Beyond Boundaries: Women and Photography on the Frontiers of Social Change

Beyond Boundaries: Women and Photography on the Frontiers of Social Change

“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.” — Virginia Woolf

Lensational4 days ago

Popcorn Ted, Panama Pix and Bunnies

Popcorn Ted, Panama Pix and Bunnies

Our Twitter/Instagram Favs of the Week Popcorn Ted, Panama Pix & Bunnies: Our Twitter / Instagram Favs of the Week ¶ by Michael Shaw ¶ In our weekly Twitter / Instagram Roundup, Cruz and Sanders lead the charge. And there is all that toxicity hiding in plain sight. In the campaign without end, Wisconsin was a game changer. In knocking off Trump, the hard-edged, fundamentalist Cruz is actually being showcased … as a regular guy. The revolutionary Sanders, on the other hand, continues to inspire (and stir the creative imagination…

Reading The PicturesApr 8

How To Run a User-Centred Photoshoot

How To Run a User-Centred Photoshoot

I’mon a mission to improve the effectiveness of web photos

James ChudleyApr 6

The Photo That Changed Everything

The Photo That Changed Everything

(And how to build a levitation shot)

Sean Howard4 days ago

Inside the Photo Department at The Weather Channel

Inside the Photo Department at The Weather Channel

Come rain or shine, the stalwart outlet is assigning, producing and distributing visual content

BlinkApr 7

Abortion and Breastfeeding: Both Part of the Ordinary Life of Ordinary Women

Abortion and Breastfeeding: Both Part of the Ordinary Life of Ordinary Women

On Alice Proujansky’s photo series ‘Women Balancing Work and Family’

Reading The PicturesApr 3

A Heroic Portrait of Workers and Industry in the South Bronx

A Heroic Portrait of Workers and Industry in the South Bronx

Martine Fougeron: “I felt that these were unheralded people”

Jeffrey RobertsApr 5

Lighting and Photographing Skin Tones

Lighting and Photographing Skin Tones

Ever since the birth of cinema, artists and scientists have strived toward the representation reality and toward real stakes in their art…

Christopher Daniel WalkerMar 18

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