A Life Contained

 
 
 

Runner_Anglesea_Great Ocean Road

This is an older image, made almost 5 years ago, at Anglesea on the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, Australia. The original film-based image has been a good seller, particular in postcard form. I remember making the original exposure with my wonderful Leica R8 camera, a little after sunrise. It was the beginning of a [...]

Notions of Beauty

 
Here’s one of four environmental portraits I made on Christmas morning, 2000 in a small town on the edge of the beautiful Inle Lake, Myanmar. This lovely old lady was a joy to photograph. She only had one remaining tooth and a face that bore the signs of experience. In the relatively short period of [...]

The Environmental Portrait

 
Environmental Portraiture
Probably the most important shot within the photo essay, the environmental portrait has the capacity to tell a story within a single picture. The image should be constructed so as to contain something of the essential nature of the subject pictured. The photographer’s role is as much facilitator as artist as he or she [...]

The Photo Essay – A Recipe for Success

The photo essay provides the photojournalist or documentary photographer with a way to tell a story in a series of images, sometimes alongside captions and/or a more substantial article.
The ability to successfully create a photo essay allows you to tell the story in a more comprehensive way than would be the case with a single [...]