17 Short Photography Essays

A Curriculum for (Creative) Photographers

Rubin at a workshop, Santa Fe (Aug 2022) by Tracey Polson

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 — that should be fun for any creative amateur, maybe if you’ve plateaued, feel like you’re good at picture taking, but want to push yourself.

A New Language for Photography

Revisiting the “Rule of Thirds”

Photographic Fundamentals, Part Two

Process of Iceland “Haiku” Photos

Synecdoche

Black & White Photography

Haiku: More Moment Than Object

Haiku Applied

Revisiting “The Decisive Moment”

“Get the Cliché Out of the Way”

Seeing vs. Shooting

The Photograph as Kintsugi

Photographing Nudes

The Nudes

Photography and Collecting, and Collecting Photography

Taste

Why I Take Photos

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