January 2011
37 posts
Ooh, I just unstuck the rangefinder on my FED!
“I never honestly believed that I would make a living doing photography. After college I moved back to Minnesota, and it seemed impossible to make a living as an artist in Minnesota. I didn’t even pursue it as such. I had a series of regular jobs, and I thought that would always be the case and that I would follow the artwork on the side. Making a life out of it really is quite difficult, and I would hate to mislead anyone about any of that. The work is the main thing, the doing of the work. Enjoying the process should be the main thing and, in some ways, be an end unto itself.”
—Alec Soth
“Don’t compare your work to other people’s. That’s a fucking death trap.”
—Cody Weber
thanks for the follow, nice blog man. Soo your good with cameras right?? anyway would you recommend a PEN ep2 or a lumix gf2?? im looking for a small nice simple but good strolling camera. Pocket principles you know. andd i just dont feel comfortable carrying a canon g9 around
Hmmm, I don’t really know much about either of them. Whenever I’m trying to choose something like that I get myself down a shop and see how they feel in my hands. Zone out the shop assistant’s chatter and just run through the controls, take some pictures, and one of them will feel better than the other and that’ll be the one.
“You have to have something new, you’ve got to say something new, and it can’t be a technique, it can’t be cross-processing or desaturation, or whatever the fuck it is. You know what I mean? It has to be something inside your noggin. It has to be an interesting idea.”
—Another from Phil Toledano
“Do stories that you feel so passionately about that you know in your heart you are the perfect person—not the only—but the perfect person to tell that story. So work that out first, and then everything else will fall into place”
—Danny Wilcox Frazier
“I remember, when I started being a photographer, I remember thinking this very clearly, I was going to put together a portfolio of stuff that interested me and only me, and if people were interested in it, then that would be some kind of divine sign that I was on to something.”
—Phil Toledano
