Note: I just released a new weekend Downtown NYC photography workshop, Oct 19th + 20th, 2024. One of two group workshops that I put on each year. Would love to see you! Also, we will be back here in Sept, I’ll give you a short summer break from me. 9am to 6pm, 23,000 steps, 7 […]
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*(All photos are unretouched negatives from a recent shoot). What’s the difference between corporate portraits and a therapy session? It’s a lot less than I thought. For both situations, you get a lot less time than you need, both aren’t covered by health insurance, and both a psychiatrist and a photographer will nod their
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Speaking of the Barclays… This above photo illustration of the Chrysler Building Spire sells the most for me, by far. It’s not hard to see why. It pops through the fog of the internet; it’s classic and simple. Safe, but with edges. People sometimes ask how I took it and I have no idea how
Am I really about to justify a $1,200 hooded sweatshirt? Between Spring and Broome, on Greene St. in SoHo, lies an 1873 French Renaissance architectural masterpiece by Isaac F. Duckworth. The finest example of cast-iron architecture on the finest cast-iron block in the world, it was nicknamed, The King of Greene Street. “Duckworth’s French Second Empire cast
The older I get, the more I wonder if the Amish got things right. I remember long-ago vaguely learning about cultures that feel a photograph can steal a person’s soul. More and more I also wonder about the validity of that statement. (And sorry, I tried to research more on this topic but the Google
Don’t worry, I’m not going to try to teach all of American Photography in an email on Tuesday morning. This is just an intro to some of what’s coming. And I want to be careful with your time. I’m working on sprucing things up here with the look and organization, and we’re going to change
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“It is the ambition of the New Yorker to live upon the Fifth Avenue, to take his airings in the [Central] Park, to sleep with his fathers in Green-Wood.” – The New York Times, 1866 Our Brooklyn neighborhood, within the larger Sunset Park, has recently been monikered as Greenwood Heights for its proximity to the
So yes, last week I bought an entire case of fake watches on Canal Street. I’ve been seeing this guy for the longest time with the most beautiful cases of watches, and a couple weeks ago things clicked, that this would be an important thing to save and document. And you know what was the
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