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Ken Van Sickle!

all photographs ©Ken Van Sickle Every once in awhile, when you’re not looking, and something new comes to you and you go, “There’s More!” This morning, in my meanderings,  I came across this quote: “A person often meets their destiny on the road he took to avoid it.*” The quote led me -in that totally [...]

A Warm Farewell

A piece written to my photography students at the end of a fine semester at New Mexico State University. Forgive the “first person.” Originally posted on their class website at www.nmsu.documentaryshooters.com: Brucini w/New Blan­ket from a Good Friend, El Paso –Dec. 9, 2009 So it comes to this, the semes­ter ends, we go our own way, we [...]

Ciego Musico/Blind Music

Calle Juarez, Ciego musico/Blind Music, Juarez – 1982 Juarez This man played in the streets of Juarez for all my first years in La Frontera. He was blind. He was small. He made music like a special desert bird, joyful to bathe in just a drop of water, joyful to sing, even to the passing [...]

Interview with two Magnum greats

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The mainstream of photography, from its inception, has been Documentary Photography, the straightforward act of visual description for distribution to an interested audience. Some would argue that its utility as a means of information has passed and that other media -video for example- serve that function in more effective ways. Hog wash. Still photography is [...]

PHOTO TIPS July20, 2007 “Candid,” photography brings up some decisions, ethically and technically. How candid do you want it? I try to be a “fly on the wall,” and not have eye contact at the moment of the photo capture, but, I also try to not sneak around and make sure everyone knows that I’m [...]