So Tuesday Jain Lemos contacts me about whether I might have a Buenos Aires Christmas story and picture package to contribute to News Plink. I don’t know what Plink is, but any project Jain’s involved in is a good one, and I do have some BA X-Mass images I’ve been dying to get out there.
“I don’t know if you’ll want them,” I write. “They’re from ‘Villa 31,’ the city’s most infamous slum.”
Always super efficient, Jain writes back right away, confirming the story without further questions. She’s already run it past Plink’s editor, L.D. Kirshenbaum, and she asks me for a gallery Continue reading “I Even Got A Christmas Tree!”
Tags: Buenos Aires, Christmas in Villa 31, Collaboration, Documentary Photography, Editing, Editing Strategies, Jain Lemos, L.D. Kirshenbaum, News Plink, Photojournalism, Picture Stories, Villa 31
Photographed brilliantly by Layne Kennedy and featuring wonderful essays by Greg Breining, “A Hard-Water World: Ice Fishing and Why We Do It” is a great book in its own right, and a fabulous example of how images and words in book form – when handled with such intelligence – can still illuminate a topic like no other media.
Frankly, when I split open “A Hard-Water World” I wasn’t really expecting that much. For one thing, too many topical photography books disappoint. And for another, ice fishing isn’t Continue reading “Inspiring Little Book on a Strange, Cold World”
Tags: A Hard-Water World, A Hard-Water World: Ice Fishing and Why We Do It, Book Review, Documentary Photography, Editing, Greg Breining, Ice Fishing, Image Editing, Inspiration, Layne Kennedy, Photojournalism, Picture Stories, Sports Photography, Storytelling
