Thoughts and Works in Progress

Photography and Making Sense of Our World

images show us more than just a moment lost to time. They reflect back to us our priorities, values and our engagement with the world. Photographs speak about the way we experience our lives.

Dorothea Lange: Pictures... and Words too

The importance of words to build an informative narrative around images is sometimes debated in the photography world. Perhaps it is not an either or answer

Art. A Steadying Force in Uncertain Times

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Taking the time to enjoy and appreciate art can be the respite we need. In times of uncertainty, like this, art can be a steadying force. It can also be good for you.

Legacies of LIGHT and PhotoNexus 2020

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Photography has every right and every merit to claim our attention as the art of our age Alexander Rodchenko, Russian artist and photographer I wanted to write about the LIGHT gallery in NYC in the 1970s because it reminds me a little about…

Richard Binhammer

Every Picture Tells Three Stories

Binhammer Photographs, Thoughts About Photography

Every picture tells three stories: the image itself, the photographers and the viewers.

The Print: Bringing Photographs to Life

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Bringing photographs to life through the print bring details in the photograph to life. Prints encourage us to view images in different ways -- to reflect and to see more.