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 weird way […]
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 […]
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 and […]
Editor’s note: This is an interview with Magnum photo greats, Elliott Erwitt and Burt Glin.These are the oldest current members of Magnum, the great photography cooperative founded, in 1947, by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Robert “Chim” Seymour and George Rodger. For a certain kind of photography –our kind– this is a group of top notch […]
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 the […]
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