How do you consider yourself as a photographer in terms of the work you do? Is it important to tell your viewers how you define your work as being a particular kind or made with a particular camera, or does the work you make define you instead?
If I make more images, like the one in this post, am I a #lunarphotographer or a #GreatLakesPhotographer? If I shoot it with #film or with #digital, how does that change what the image says? I think my intent as a photographer matters more than the label or the gear and if you make photographs that are genuinely yours, your own personal hashtag will write itself.
Rather than think of myself as this kind of photographer or that kind of photographer, I prefer to think of myself as photographer – I’m interested in subject matter as it presents itself to me, or as I think of it relative to things I’ve read, music I’ve listened to, places I’ve gone…
Rather than pigeonholing yourself into a particular genre of image-making, or that you use a particular kind of camera, think rather of how the work you make defines who you are and let that be your “hashtag.”
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(https://i0.wp.com/www.cameraposition.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/EH_spring_2021-307.jpg)Blue Hour Moonset – Lake Superior – photograph by Jeff Curto
17 Feb 2021
Camera Position 212 : Sources & Resources
This episode covers some practical details. I go over the places where you can listen to Camera Position and list a number of online resources for you to explore photography that go beyond the “usual suspects” of Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/) – Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/) – Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/).
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Where to Listen to Camera Position
Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jeff-curtos-camera-position/id121834929)Google (https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuY2FtZXJhcG9zaXRpb24uY29tL2ZlZWQvcG9kY2FzdA?sa=X&ved=0CAYQrrcFahcKEwjQ1rH-vI_uAhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQCg)Podcasts (https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuY2FtZXJhcG9zaXRpb24uY29tL2ZlZWQvcG9kY2FzdA?sa=X&ved=0CAYQrrcFahcKEwjQ1rH-vI_uAhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQCg)iHeartRadio (http://)Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/2QoQNyu5LSLGMA4KicSiD9)Sti (https://www.stitcher.com/show/jeff-curtos-camera-position)t (https://www.stitcher.com/show/jeff-curtos-camera-position)cher (https://www.stitcher.com/show/jeff-curtos-camera-position)Amazon Music (https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/d1fff33b-88bd-40eb-83b4-18888c5702ae/Jeff-Curtos-Camera-Position?returnFromLogin=1)iOS App (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/jeff-curtos-camera-position/id1552761220) (free!)YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/c/jeffcurto)Android App (https://www.amazon.com/Wizzard-Media-Curtos-Camera-Position/dp/B007C5KHLI/ref=sr_1_1?s=mobile-apps&ie=UTF8&qid=1333922430&sr=1-1)
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Where to Find Quality Photography & Photography Inspiration Online
LENSCRATCH (http://lenscratch.com) – “an online platform dedicated to supporting and celebrating the photographic arts and photographic artists through exposure, discussion, community collaboration, and education.”
LensCulture (https://www.lensculture.com) – “LensCulture is one of the most comprehensive and far-reaching resources for discovering contemporary photography talent around the world.”
Artsy (https://www.artsy.net) – “Artsy features the world’s leading galleries, museum collections, foundations, artist estates, art fairs, and benefit auctions, all in one place.” – Over 1,000,000 artworks online
Museum of Contemporary Photography (https://www.mocp.org/index) – “The MoCP is the world’s premier college art museum dedicated to photography.
31 Jan 2021
Camera Position 211 : What not to do
“Whatever you do with your photography – don’t ever do… that.”
Our desire to learn quickly, be noticed in social media and not make any mistakes has led to some photography pundits saying things like the above with increasing frequency.
The whole idea that there are pictures that you should never make or techniques or ideas you should never try is confusing to me. What happened to the notion of experimenting with photography and exploring the world and the medium as you work out the best way to create images that mean something to you?
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(https://i0.wp.com/www.cameraposition.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Trees-1.jpg)Birches – from the project “The Whisper of the Pale Trees” – 2020/2021 – photograph by Jeff Curto
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