“I have felt a certain power of color awakening in me.” – Vincent van Gogh When Van Gogh was 30 years old and had been an artist for three years, he discovered color. Color soon dominated all his perceptions of the world. In 1888, Van Gogh took a train from Paris to Arles (which he […]
These images are a selection of photographs produced for National Geographic over 25 years ago—both published and never seen. My hope was that black & white film and a formal square frame would transport the reader back in time, allowing them to stay by Van Gogh’s side, as he traveled through his elevated and tortured […]
Over a lifetime, we accumulate experiences that end up being like wallpaper in a house where our subconscious resides. The Secret Garden of Lily LaPalma holds the photographs on that wallpaper, made in the shadows of a dark side of me that I have, as of late, begun to re-explore. Without meaning to make them […]
”It is a true privilege to have someone reveal themselves to me, a complete stranger with a camera in his hands. That level of connection in photography creates the drive to look far beyond myself. However, knowing something of where you’re coming from has to come first. In making a photograph, I value my initial […]
Henri Cartier-Bresson was one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century. What makes Cartier-Bresson’s vast body of work so universally impressive is that he was seemingly present at every significant event and in the intimate company of every important figure of the 20th Century. Trained as a painter at a young age, Cartier-Bresson was […]
Decades before the current debate about migrant caravans and border security, Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist Don Bartletti was documenting the unprecedented migration of people across the San Diego/Tijuana border that dwarfs today’s statistics. Throughout the 1980’s and 90’s, this was a pathway of least resistance, a doorway to opportunity for millions of Mexican and Central […]
Huynh Cong Ut was born in Long An, Vietnam (then part of French Indochina) on March 29, 1951. Soon after his beloved brother Huynh Thanh My was killed covering the Vietnam War for Associated Press (AP) in 1965, Ut jointed the prestigious news gathering agency. Known professionally as Nick Ut, he covered the war in […]
Photographer Michael Muller has packed several lifetimes worth of adventure into a mere four decades of life. Raised in Northern California, he spent much of his childhood in Saudi Arabia, where his father, an amateur photographer, oversaw the building of the port city of Jubail. In his mid-teens and 50 countries later, he began taking […]
“The Digital dialectic suggests that anything digital is compressed … and this applies equally to color. Saturation, hue and timbre serve to create an imagery unique and not very similar to analog film. For this reason, I welcome the idea of a new visual language; another system of control. Digital speaks in subtle ways, often […]
Shortly after completing college, Charlie decided to change directions and pursue a career in photography. Other than a deep appreciation for the photographic image, he had no experience in the field. He wandered the streets trying to see if he was capable of creating quality photographs, to see if he could teach himself how to […]