Here's a hodgepodge of random thoughts about still photographers exploring the fact that their "still" cameras also take videos.
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A collection of toy cameras
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Brian Callan, photographer, takes a close look at the paths we choose in life
(Photo: Brian Callan)
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The world is Brian Callan's oyster. Or rather, his studio.
The Newport News-based photographer has traveled the globe to capture his photographs. Most recently he traveled to Central America, and before that, Israel; when his father went there with a church group, Callen tagged along. Stark photos of the desert in Qumran, landscapes shot from Israel looking into Jordan convey the continuity of the land, but also its unforgiving terrain. "To see and walk in the same place," as the characters in Biblical stories, but then "to see drastically now how things have changed," he said, "there's a lot of tension there."
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Glen McClure at his studio i Ghent
(Photo: VJ Melissa)
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NORFOLK - When people ask photographer Glen McClure who pays the expenses for his photography projects, he replies…“Uh, Visa.” Lucky for him, his crew of assistants will work for food, shelter and beer. He covers all the crew’s travel expenses. And they don’t mind at all – real compensation is the experience.
Glen uses the word ‘serendipitous’ often to describe his photography. He tells the story behind a black and white image of a boy rushing through a cobblestone street on his scooter in Italy. “I was eating lunch outside and the boy just happened to ride by.” Seems getting his start as an advertising photographer and spending most of his career doing commercial photography hasn’t diminished McClure’s sense of spontaneity.
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NYC Photographer 'TONE
(Photo: TONE)
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NYC photographer TONE doesn’t know what exactly made him pick up a camera, other than the fact that it happened to be available at a time when he was badly in need of a healthy way to cope.
“I started shooting [photos] because I lost someone really close to me and I didn’t know how else to deal with it,” reveals TONE, a native of Manhattan whose current budget requires him to live in Jersey. “I think at that time I was desperate to have some kind of distraction. Earlier in my life I overdosed on crack, so using drugs and alcohol excessively was not a solution for me. And I just happened to have an old film camera.”
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Photos from FashionNation
(Photo: Jeremy Liebman)
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Photography is the study of objects and human life seen through the eyes and perspective of another human with a skill in being able to capture a moment in time. Jeremy Liebman is such a photographer and approaches his still life, landscape, portraits and fashion photography with a thoughtful, often ironic and humorous approach focusing on details to help differentiate his work.
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