I used to think portrait photography was about technical control: the right focal length, the right light ratio, the right moment. I spent years refining those things, and they matter. But the most useful lesson I’ve learned as a photographer who works primarily on the road — in cities I don’t know, in languages I […]
There is a particular discipline that comes from traveling with a finite number of frames. I started shooting medium format film seriously about four years ago, initially because I liked the image quality, and later because of what the limitations did to my decision-making in the field. When you have twelve frames on a roll […]
There’s a photograph in my Prague series that I nearly didn’t make. It was late in the trip, the last week of a month I’d spent in the city, and I was tired in the way that sets in near the end of long projects — tired of looking, tired of asking, tired of not […]
