“Photographers, like any good artists, are deeply insecure. They need plenty of strokes, hand holding, and plain old sympathy. Photographers are genetic whiners, pissers and moaners, and royal pains in the ass. I know. I am one of them.” David Hume Kennerly

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Goodbye Hap.

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I was thinking about this on the plane to New Zealand. I’d like to be hired to shoot someone for a magazine photo spread. No assistants, no lighting, just me, the subject and a couple of cameras. I love the William Claxton/Barry Feinstein black and white thing. I think photography has gotten to such an equalized place in terms of image quality that it’s really all about who you got doing what, not that you got a well exposed and composed image of it. (Although it helps.)

Yo blud, you’re rich already. Shut the fuck up and play your guitar.

I was thinking about this on my way to Popeyes’ Tuesday 99¢ special. I’d like to be commissioned to make music. No producer, no sound engineer, no studio, just me, an acoustic guitar, and a blunt. I love that acoustic folk / pop sentimental thing. I think music has gotten to such an equalized place in terms of sonic quality that it’s really about what you’re singing about, not that you got the music know-how or even know how to play a musical instrument. (Although it helps.)

By Sofia Arjam.

Cool Hunting covers my self-published monograph.

Thanks to Evan Orensten and Jose R. Mejia of Cool Hunting / Large Tail.

Via And None Shall Survive / Raw Drug Raps.

Oh, as of May 3rd, I will be self-published. If you care to read about it, I will be inundating you with links to the same blurb about my book in the coming weeks.

I skipped the gearfaggotry and HDR hole, but I’m definitely somewhere between “dammit, I suck,” and “one exposure per motive.”

Via Alex Wise.

That is because amateurs are largely happy to be paid anything for their photos. “People that don’t have to make a living from photography and do it as a hobby don’t feel the need to charge a reasonable rate,” Mr. Eich said.

When you have such affordable digital technology, why would anyone pay a working photographer their day rate when you can just bust out your 15-megapixel dSLR camera and do it yourself? I’ve been trying to figure that out since I finished school and it remains to be seen if any of my attempts at an alternative business model will prove any success.

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Photo by Phil Sharp.