Alain Briot - If This Was A Painting Instead Of A Photograph

One of the things that shape my approach to photography is my training as a painter. I studied Painting and drawing at the Academie des Beaux Arts, in Paris, before I studied photography. As a result, my approach to photography has been partly defined by my training as a painter.

For example, if I take a photograph and find in this photograph a color, or an element, that I do not like, I will not hesitate to remove it from the photograph. I will do this by cropping...     Read Article

Guy Tal - The Absence of Humans

In his critique of a recent National Park photography exhibit, Boston Globe Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Mark Feeney decries the absence of human presence in the works presented, suggesting that such deliberate oversight renders the photographer's interpretation "highly limited, and effectively superficial."

Such critique is often leveled at photography of natural subjects...     Read Article

Paul Faust - May 2012 Book Reviews

• Black & White Photography Techniques With Adobe Photoshop by Maurice Hamilton
• Photographing Nature: A Photo Workshop From Brooks Institute's Top Nature Photography Instructor by Ralph A. Clevenger
• Plateaus and Canyons: Impressions of the American Southwest by Bruce Barnbaum