Navigating An MFA In Photography (part 1)
In the fourth grade, my teacher gave our class the option to either write ten spelling words a repeated number of times, or use them all within a short story. This might be one of the most important...
View ArticleNavigating An MFA In Photography (part 2)
After a year of portrait work, I started pondering what type of project to approach next. At the start of the second school year, I quit smoking cigarettes. I used the patch to do so. One side effect...
View ArticleDiscussing: Alfred Eisenstaedt and Arnold Newman
We all have one thing(s) or another that may, or may not, hold us back from our goals. It could be stage fright, fear of spiders, being alone, being in crowds, certain people, or anything else. There’s...
View ArticleFrom My Workshop At Edmund Burke School
This past weekend, I had the awesome opportunity to visit Edmund Burke School, a high school in Washington, DC. My visit to this school wasn’t by chance. The connection to Edmund Burke has been growing...
View Article#mmwYOtour
At this moment, I’m sitting at a desk in Cleveland. Monday will launch a series of photography and video discussions I’ll be doing with high schools across the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. This is a...
View Article#mmwYOtour, Week 1!
It’s been a wild week! I’m almost halfway into my road trip tour of high schools across the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. To recap what I’m doing, each day I’ve stopped at a new school to chat with...
View Article#mmwYOtour, Week 2-3
Wow That is a good summary for the second half of the #mmwYOtour! In the last post, I summarized the first week that took me from Cleveland to Amherst while speaking at high schools each day about...
View ArticleA Note For New College Students
Tilly Sanson, one of my former college photography students, asked if I could contribute some college advice for her younger sister, Kara, who will be a freshman this fall. Tilly has collected a great...
View Article#mmwYOtour 2016
Time to kick off a new #mmwYOtour! Over the next two weeks, I’ll be visiting a range of high school classrooms to chat about imagemaking and discuss the Young Artist (YO) program. At the Maine Media...
View Article#mmwYOtour …and beyond
It has been quite an interesting past two months. I’m off the road for a bit, will be back on it soon, but let’s recap recent events… In March, I set out on the 2016 #mmwYOtour, a speaking tour I’ve...
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