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CJ Chilvers

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Film Isn't Dead

Make sure if you take part in the analogue film resurgence, you do it for the right reasons: the slow, mindful approach to photography and the emphasis on material output. Pretty much everything else about it is the same gear trap as digital.

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Ansel Adams Act Introduced in Congress

> Arresting photographers, seizing photographic equipment, and requirements to obtain permits, pay fees, or buy insurance policies are abridgments of freedom of speech and of the press.

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How our photo obsession is threatening our memories

From Linda Henkel Professor, Fairfield University [http://qz.com/317428/how-our-photo-obsession-is-threatening-our-memories/] (via Andy Adams [https://twitter.com/FlakPhoto/status/551147052294762496/]): > When the students took photos, they remembered fewer objects overall and remembered fewer details about the objects and their location in the museum, compared to those they had only

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A New Photographer Is Born

A new photographer is born.

A New Photographer Is Born
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One Could Hear Inwardly In Them The Gathering Of

> “One could hear, inwardly in them, the gathering of breath for a collective sigh of relief. At last, to be set free, to lay down one’s burden, to be a child again - not in renewed innocence, but in restored dependence, in admitted, undisguised dependence. To be told,

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This Sums Up My Book Publishing Philosophy Now

This sums up my book publishing philosophy now.

This Sums Up My Book Publishing Philosophy Now
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Have We Been Wrong All Along About The Superiority

Have we been wrong all along about the superiority of horizontal videos?

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Eric Kim's Street Photography Resolutions for 2015

I don’t believe in resolutions, just habits. Habits are stronger than goals, stronger than to-do lists and stronger than schedules. Of all the photographers’ resolutions I’ve read the past few weeks, Eric’s seem to be the most down to Earth and worthy of becoming habits. > Try

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Please Understand That Book Publishing Is An

> “Please understand that book publishing is an organized hobby, not a business.” — Seth Godin

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Possible Origin of the Rule of Thirds

I’ve spent hours researching the origins of the rules of photographic composition at my local library. There’s very little hard evidence offered to support most claims of one composition being superior to another. It just “looks better.” This drives my science-loving mind crazy. One such rule is the