Archive for April, 2009

Shipping News

Kia ora tatou: Posts may be a little thin on the ground this week. I am away at the PSNZ conference in Wanganui, where I am giving a talk this Saturday am on going for honours. I  m areally looking forward to it. Trent Parke, the Magnum photographer, will be speaking, along with oither photographic [...]

Is digital finally emerging from its chrysalis? Quo vadis, photography?

UPDATED 14 April For the trickster is the spirit of the doorway leading out, and of the crossroad at the edge of town (the one where a little market springs up). He is the spirit of the road at dusk, the one that runs from one town to another and belongs to neither. There are [...]

Composition- how a master does it

Kia ora tatou: This weekend, I will be teaching a workshop on Composition and visual design ( not the same thing at all). While I was doing some research, I came across this video clip on YouTube, where master documentary photographer Sam Abell, who used to shoot for National Geographic, talks about the secrets of [...]