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Critical theory on visual culture, reflections on my own photographic practice, and others, who have influenced me.
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The Myth of Objectivity: How Press Photography Manufactures Reality
The point was never reality. What we really crave is credibility — the illusion that the world can still be known, if we just frame it right.
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Photography’s Long Battle for Artistic Legitimacy
Photography was born not in studios of painters but in laboratories. The medium’s first practitioners were chemists, astronomers, inventors, and entrepreneurs, tinkering with glass plates and light-sensitive chemicals.
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Mary Ellen Mark: The Ethics of Seeing
Mary Ellen Mark became the cartographer of intimacy within instability. Her photographs are less dispatches than allegories, balancing technical precision with an unflinching moral gaze.
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The City as Living Archive
The city, as I read it, is a living archive—messy, polyphonic, and resistant to closure.
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Why I Reject the Pretense of Documentary Neutrality
Neutrality is a myth. Every photograph is already a construction. It’s a comforting illusion to think otherwise.
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Double Exposure: How Kyoto and I Became Each Other’s Props
How mass tourism and social media create Baudrillard’s hyperreality.
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Cindy Sherman’s Deepfake Ghost: Performing Identity
Cindy Sherman’s groundbreaking self-portraits expose identity as a constructed performance.
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A Postmodern Defense of Street Photography Against Susan Sontag’s Moralism
Susan Sontag’s critiques of photography—its voyeurism, detachment, and potential to aestheticize suffering—loom large over debates about street photography.
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Sage Sohier: Human Connection and Social Relationships
Sohier‘s photography represents a masterful exploration of human relationships, identity, and social dynamics in American life.
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Robert Adams: 15 Observations on Photographing the American West
Robert Adams’ photography stands as one of the most significant documentations of environmental change in the American West.
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Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Art of Capturing Life’s Fleeting Moments
Henri Cartier-Bresson’s photography captures life’s fleeting moments, revealing depth in everyday scenes.