Those who know me, know that I dislike being in the middle of large groups of people engaged in mindless small talk. That’s the major reason why I don’t photograph weddings – they drive me around the bend. I just spent three days surrounded by 500 people and I can’t tell you how good it felt to spend the morning picking berries with the girls and cooking a dinner for everybody afterwards. I will say that some aspects of the last three days were fun, but I desperately needed my alone time. It will take me a week to recover from this.
On that note, here is an essay by Jonathan Rauch in The Atlantic that some time ago caused a bit of controversy: Caring for Your Introvert.
The photo is from Change Islands. Local residents and visitors are watching the Great Fogo Island Punt Race from the government wharf earlier this month.The race is not just a tourist attraction, but also an important part in preserving the local knowledge and tradition of wooden boat building.
Croatian word of the day: borovnica blueberry [boro vni tza]
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Change Islands, Newfoundland.
Croatian word of the day: ograda fence [og ra da]
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I should be heading to Change Islands next week for a few days. I can’t imagine what the islands look like in winter. This is a photo from this past summer.
I haven’t posted links in a while so here we go:
A friend forwarded to me a fabulous piece of photographic history. We all know the iconic images Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Gordon Parks and the rest of the Farm Security Administration photographers made during the 1930s and 1940s across the United States. That still remains the most extensive visual record of the Great Depression and probably the most extensive visual record ever deliberately created. What is not well known is that FSA photographers made a small number of colour photographs as well as the iconic black and white images. You can see some of them on the PDN blog.
If you are in New York or if you are going to be in New York between April 11 and June 28, you should visit MoMA and what looks like a fabulous Henri Cartier-Bresson exhibit.
Another thing you should not miss is this well-written and honest piece by Boston Globe photographer Lane Turner:
Slowly, over time, all those experiences exposed a bigger flaw: Too often I chose to photograph instead of actually live. I was rigidly defining myself as an observer and missing the fulfillment of the participant. I’d often wondered why my pictures weren’t better at capturing many of those small but profound moments in people’s lives; it was because I wasn’t enjoying enough of those moments myself.
I’m still learning. Turns out, my camera can parse meaning from the chaos of life. I just didn’t realize the chaos would be my own.
Croatian word of the day: boja colour [boy a]
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