Category Archives: Art + Photography I’ve been thinking about Nick Ut (b. 1951) recently, and how young some combat photographers are. It turns out that this past Sunday, June 8, 1972 marked the 42nd anniversary of the day Ut took his most famous photograph. He was just 21 years old at the time and had been a professional photojournalist for […]  My friend Corinne recently blogged about how having a three-year-old (or as I call her, a threenager) unleashed a torrent of self-reflection and compassion. When I think of compassion, I think of Mother Teresa and Corinne did, too, sharing a poem by her within the post. This free association game goes one step further for me, from Mother […]  Last week I introduced you to one of my college documentary photography professor Viktor Kolář, and mentioned our semester-long project. Well, because it’s fun to dig up old work (ca. 1998), I decided to share some with you. As I mentioned in the prior post, I’d originally planned to photograph people on public transit—something I was too […]  This week I’d like to introduce you to Czech documentary photographer Viktor Kolář. If you haven’t heard of him, that’s understandable. When I stepped inside FAMU and wandered up the stairs to my first seminar in documentary photography with him, neither had I. According to Kant Books, “Viktor Kolář is the Czech Republic’s most important urban […]  Last week I began profiling America’s celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz for my Artist of the Week series. Over time, as the post grew longer and longer, I realized I was going to have to split it over two posts. While I haven’t done that before—even when chronicling the work of some exceptional artists and photographers—I […] |
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