My pals at ASMP asked me for a few words of advice for photographers attending portfolio reviews . I squeezed my opinions into about 450 words... There is some great advice from the other writers so be sure to read those posts too. [read more]
With great pleasure, I recently accepted a position on the board of the American Photography Archives Group . I have been a member for a few years now in my capacity as representative of the Yousuf Karsh estate and have been attending the quarterly meetings at ICP to discuss the challenges of representing an archive. Our members are a growing, varied bunch, and I have engaged them to talk to them … [read more]
The North American representative for the Estate of Yousuf Karsh (me) presents images and stories from the Karsh archive, and talks about how she and the Estate keep his work in the public eye. [read more]
Sara Rosen and I sat down to talk about the origins of aCurator for the Click blog over at Glitterati Inc. “I got a job as a photography processor at a one-hour photo shop on a high street. Then I got into further education and had a great time doing a photo course for two years. I wasn’t particularly good but I knew I wanted to do something in photography professionally. It was 1989 and I ended … [read more]
In 2012 I was invited to present and review at what turned out to be a fabulous week-long celebration of photography in Kristiansund North, in Norway, called Nordic Light . Imagine my surprise when the other people flown in from the USA were Greg Gorman, Bruce Davidson, Mary Ellen Mark, and Abe Frajndlich. A good time was had by all and naturally I will never forget it. One of the highlights was … [read more]
I really enjoyed doing this interview with photo resource Shutterhub . "The award winning aCurator online magazine features high quality photographic projects from a diverse range of contributors, displayed in a full screen format. Its founder Julie Grahame has a long history of working with photographers as a consultant, online publisher, editor, portfolio reviewer and more. We took the … [read more]
Mary Engel, who founded and runs the American Photography Archive Group , invited me to be part of a panel presentation on marketing and social media at their first annual seminar, in 2014. We have our quarterly meetings at ICP and they were kind enough to let us use their space for our two day event. FF to about 7 minutes 30 if you want to skip the intros (and me complaining that my slides are … [read more]