Author: sImenSIasMS

If you are interested to cultivate a photographic eye, here we offer four great sources of progress. When you fill your head with inspiring images before taking pictures, you are better prepared on the field with a camera in your hands. Here are four websites, which are a real source of inspiration: you just have…

Get inspired this holiday season with this Christmas card. Festive fun times for everyone. Christmas card from Rob Sheridan. Merry Christmas. Also available in wallpaper-size, now my new desktop background.

Robert Frank’s proposal for the Guggenheim grant that enabled him to do what became The Americans, found here: The summary To photograph freely throughout the United States, using the miniature camera exclusively. The making of a broad, voluminous picture record of things American, past and present. This project is essentially the visual study of a civilization and…

Gregory Crewdson might not need an introduction, and if he does, I’ve written about him before. In short, he makes large-scale staged photographs. The photos are set in suburban and small-town America, and depict everything noir in a sort of perpetual twilight (indeed one of his books is called Twilight): loneliness, alienation, apathy, resignation, mystery, contemplation, confusion; you…

If you want to attach “post-” to something and describe a paradigm shift in culture, which is fun sometimes, let’s say this: we live in a post-copyright era. This is a statement of fact, not of ideology or wishful thinking. The public is hopelessly out of phase with copyright law. Not only does the public not want…