Author: C.P. Plunkett
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Alex Ledford Gains “Tenure” During Easter In New Orleans
Over Easter weekend, Alex Ledford — ”the anthropologist of the modern age” I’ve featured previously as a photographer to follow — made a trip to The City That Care Forgot. Fortunately for us, Alex didn’t forget his camera. Nor his wanderlust. What he left with was a clear photographic track toward tenure, that esteemable justification…
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Interview With Chicago Street Photographer Mike McCawley
With the aim of re-engaging on Flickr (I’ve maintained a Pro account for several years, but have rarely logged in the past few), I recently joined the group Street & Repeat 108, a street photography “boot camp.” The curriculum includes bi-monthly instructions from selected photographers who essentially give an assignment to the group’s members, who,…
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Dive-Bar Meet Up With Photographer Angelo Partemi
It went down in the DMs. Well, to start with anyway. Angelo Partemi direct messaged me on Instagram: he was passing through Chicago, his hometown, and wanted to meet up. After a moment’s look at his feed — *Borat voice* “Very nice!” — of course I was game. Oh, and at a four-star rated dive…
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Is Photography Storytelling?
“A picture paints a thousand words.” It’s one of the most well known and often used English language idioms, its etymology traced to the early 20th century, and sentiments similar even further back. The originally accredited quote was in reference to graphics in general; however, with the growth in popularity of photography in the last…
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Street Photography Motif #02: Headless
This is my second in an ongoing series I started this year examining street photography’s motifs — that is, like any genre, the repeated concepts, elements, subjects, themes, etc. that are present throughout the canon and used similarly by many different photographers. Simply put, there are “types” of shots that have been established and have…
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Street Photographer To Follow On Instagram: Sean Colello
Last week, I visited New York City, my second trip of the year to the Big Apple solely to shoot — a self-guided, three-day street photography vacation essentially. Having connected with some of the members of NYCSPC during my trip in the spring, I joined them for their monthly meeting held in Manhattan. There, shooters…