A Curriculum for (Creative) Photographers Check out these essays and see if this approach to photography resonates. If so, I encourage you to take one of my workshops through the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops. There are periodic online programs —the next one starts in late March 2023, and this summer…

“This might not seem like nothing to you now, but it will.” — This is me: I have been a photographer for more than 40 years, a writer for fewer, a long time resident of the Bay Area, but moments away from a big move to Santa Fe, New Mexico. When I was a kid, I was a young protégé of Jerry Uelsmann…

And it only took 3 years to get here… — “Straight-up f*king genius!!” — Doug Menuez, Photojournalist, “Fearless Genius” AVAILABLE TODAY IN BOTH COLLECTOR’S HARDBACK AND STUDENT EBOOK “So Excellent! It’s a photo class in a book!!” — Christopher Michel, Photographer; Artist-in-Residence at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine The Photograph as Haiku is a new work in photographic inspiration. This simple book describes how the aesthetic properties of many…

A brief breakdown of this idea in action — One of the aspects of photographic haiku that I’m always working on, and that gives students pause, is the balance between “moment” and “object.” While the things that catch my eye are very often cool looking (patterns, shadows, scenes), my haiku practice pushes me to capture images that are more…

After 40 years I’m starting to get good, and understand. — My photography is a practice. Like yoga, you never “get there” so much as hope to keep growing. It’s a way of seeing, obviously, but for me it’s also making a short poem out of what I see. The poems might be funny, or wistful, or arousing — they offer…