What Was the Mojo for These Nine Artists? mojo • ˈmōˌjō • noun, a magic charm, talisman, or spell: someone must have their mojo working over at the record company • magic power - Oxford American What is that X quality that great artists have? What gives them the mojo? I've been gnawing on that question for a while, but this morning it really started to demand attention like an itch that makes
Past AYP guest Chris Burkard's photos were named in the "Best Photos of 2010" by Surfer Mag. It's easy to see why, looking at them here. Chris gave me a bit of the story behind these: "The longboard shot was shot last spring..a totally windless day, so glassy...it was almost hard to see the waves because
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I recently watched The Kid Stays in the Picture in the HBO documentary section, about Producer Robert Evans’ rise and fall, accomplishments, flops, great and dark times, but most of all his drive to push his vision through, no matter what. I recommend it to you on a number of different levels: Let's start with
Ed Kashi Wins Unicef Photo of the Year Award Photograph by Ed Kashi. A poignant image of a disabled young girl, hobbled by the after-effects of the American military's use of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War, has won the Unicef Photo of the Year Award. Ed Kashi, who was recently a guest of Marc's
Photography meets body art? If someone says you have "eyes in the back of your head," they probably don't mean actual eyeballs. They're just saying you have an uncanny sense of what's happening behind you. Unless, of course, you're photographer Wafaa Bilal. The controversial photography professor at NYU has taken experimental photography to the next
With the release of our AYP Club, we're reposting this from last May, we've come a long ways since then with new updated resources I've added here- MS Last week we had a really smashing workshop at B&H, the mother-ship of all camera stores. If you’ve never been there, imagine a full department store dedicated
Hey folks, Dang, we've been working hard behind the scenes to put together a site to act as the hub for our Advancing Your Photography Club. We first started talking about this about a month ago, and frankly we had a ton of response, and I quickly realized that we needed to speed up our
Pablo Picasso Here's quad-espresso-shot of powerful inspiration from Pablo Picasso himself: "Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again. And what do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France.
Photograph by Florian Shulz Marc's past AYP guest, conservation photographer Florian Shulz, took the first place Environmental Photographer of the Year Award 2010 for his image above of a few thousand Munkiana Devil Rays swimming in unity, a phenomenon never witnessed before. The contest, which is sponsored by the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental