Or: Why Self-Employed People Don’t Get Benefits Running a small photography business is expensive. Especially in Portland. I recently had a customer come in to the studio and ask about our print prices. He was genuinely curious to know what went in to our calculations of the price of an 8×10 print. It was...
Category Archives: Writings
The January-February 2013 issue of LensWork Magazine features the Astra Velum series. With an 22-page spread of images, and an interview with publisher Brooks Jensen, it’s a beautiful presentation of the series, my thinking behind the series, and much more. LensWork is well know as having the finest black and white reproductions in the publishing...
Several times a month, I receive an email that reads something like this: “Hi, I just moved to Portland from Minneapolis/Butte/Atlanta. I just graduated from photography school/am a photographer/am interested in photography/have a camera I got for Christmas, and would like to be your intern/assistant/second shooter/photographer. I was wondering if you have any positions open?...
The current issue of Silvershotz Magazine features a 15-page spread (plus the cover) of my series Skeleton in the Closet. Silvershotz is an international fine art photography magazine, and can be purchased at Barnes and Noble, Borders, Hastings, Tower Books, etc. The magazine’s article mistakenly mentions the series as a published book. While I have...
How does an artist find time to make art, on top of juggling all of his other responsibilities? Why do so many art school graduates fail to go on to successful artmaking careers? How do you make a living and make art? These are questions I explore in my current article Buying Time: Balancing the...
This past week saw the publication of an article of mine in Rangefinder Magazine/Wedding and Portrait Professionals International. It needs no introduction, as it says it all: A Wedding Photographer Must Be Everything A brief defense of the modern wedding photographer’s multifarious talents. Fritz Liedtke www.fritzphoto.com “Oh, he’s a wedding photographer.” How many times have...
When I was in high school, my English teacher, Mr. Demkowicz, had us write Cosmic Papers a couple times a year. A Cosmic Paper was something of a personal review of one’s life, a way of taking stock of what we’d learned so far in his class, how we might have grown and changed, and...