"It is impossible for anyone to go out and photograph something and not have it reflect who they are. It's almost intangible. You can analyze and say it's the cropping or it's the lens, but the mystique remains." --Daniel Morduchowicz
Fifteen years ago Ann Johansson left Gothenburg, Sweden, and came to America. She was looking for "sunshine" but she may just have found the end of the rainbow. For seven years her real-life job was waitressing in Los Angeles. Her hobby was taking pictures.
"It took me a while to realize you could actually make a living here having a...
As a documentary photographer Eli Reed focuses on subjects that have deep meaning for him. A member of Magnum since 1983, Reed is a highly respected still photographer as well as a noted member of the motion picture industry where he works with some of Hollywood's top directors, including John Singleton and Spike Lee. Photojournalist Dirck Halstead wrote of Reed, "Eli...
They call him the picture taker, a humble phrase for a man whose every image is a small miracle. His name is Ken Elkins, retired chief photographer for The Anniston Star in rural Alabama. His new book, appropriately titled Picture Taker (published by The University of Alabama Press), transports us from life as we know it to a world most of us will never encounter.
Once upon a time, photographers
stored their work in "shoebox" museums, tucked away under
a bed or wedged into the corner of a closet where they lay out of sight
and unrecognized. Then came the Internet andp...
Felice Frankel and Chuck Doswell are scientists as well as photographers. However, their interests lie poles apart. While Frankel finds her chosen material in the laboratories at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Doswell is a storm chaser, in love...
For Boston based photographer Seth Resnick and many others in the industry the regional markets have transformed into a global marketplace. What was once a conceptual dream has become a reality. Resnick, a commercial, editorial, corporate, and fine arts...
Just in time for our travel issue we caught up with New Jersey photographer Paul Eric Johnson on his fall foliage journey through New England. Johnson, returning from Jefferson Notch on the flanks of Mount Washington in New Hampshire, was completing his...
Imagine living on a beautiful island: Look to your left and see the sun rise in the morning; look to your right and see it set each night.
The secret nuances of color on the horizon where the sky meets the sea and the sea meets the shore have drawn photographer Alison Shaw to Martha's Vineyard off the coast of New England, where she has lived and photographed for...