Things I’ve Learned
After I made this post, my friend, Dan, linked to it in the Facebook group for critique that he is a part of. Immediately, the responses were almost all in critique/attack of not my words (my work),...
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Thoughts About Film Photography
I feel like I am alive at a really important, exciting time in photography. Since I got into this field in 2003, I have been aware of the constant debates about “film vs. digital photography,” “will...
View ArticleSPE Regional Conference, Santa Fe, Day 1
There was a graduate student discussion panel with Stephanie Bruna, Daniel Coburn, Rachel Cox, Lauren Greenwald, Colby Sempek, and Jamie Kovach from UNM, which was really, really good to see/hear. Also...
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SPE Speakers
THURSDAY Judy Herrmann, “Breaking into the Biz” www.hsstudio.com 2goodthings.com This talk didn’t really apply to me at the obvious level, but what I took away from it was to be serious about what you...
View ArticleSPE Friends
Wednesday afternoon, March 21, my best friend, Daniel Evan Garza, Denver designer, screen printer, and web developer, and I made our way to San Francisco. We stayed with our very gracious friend, Beth...
View ArticleColby Sempek
I saw the elephants image last weekend in the Cabinet of Curiosities: Photography and Specimens exhibition at the Nelson-Atkins (which I really liked) and was not surprised to find out that this artist...
View ArticleProgress
Four years ago, I decided to start a blog. I was a student at the Maryland Institute College of Art then, and I spent a lot of my time looking at artists, mostly in photography. I found having names...
View ArticleLa Specola
While I was in Italy the second half of last month, I made a point of going to Museo di Storia Naturale, or “La Specola” in Florence. It’s known as “La Specola” because of the presence in the building...
View ArticleKU Natural History Museum
I’ve written here a few times about how much I value the Natural History Museum on the University of Kansas campus. The story goes that I found out my neighbor also had a jackalope tattoo, and in...
View ArticleMWSPE Conference, Lincoln
Typing up my notes about regional and national conferences for the Society for Photographic Education has proven to be quite valuable to me over the past two years and it’s something I intend to...
View ArticleCandor
I have been making pictures for, relative to my age, a long time. I have been studying photography at the college level for four years. Four years before that, I started taking pictures seriously,...
View ArticlePaul Pletka
I sneaked this photo while I was in collections storage with the exhibitions class I assist for at the Fine Arts Center. We have several of Pletka’s works in the collection, but I can’t find any of the...
View ArticleCarol Golemboski
Carol is the head of the photography program at UCD. I met with her the first day I visited the school and she drew me up a degree plan that is really going to help me if I end up transferring there. I...
View ArticleRadiolab
If you aren’t into Radiolab, you should be. You can download episodes for free on their website, radiolab.org. They’re incredibly well put together and have hugely impacted so much of my work. I’m...
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