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I’d applied to art school on a whim, but these books gave me a reason to be there
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Reflecting on a few lessons that help me endure as a photographer
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When a portrait sitting at the State Department doesn’t go smoothly
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“I believe photographers already know how to be filmmakers, they just don't know that they know”
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What’s your favorite lighting style?Over the last three months, I've shared several portraits and lighting diagrams, most of which use a Rembrandt-style lighting technique. For man…
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For this set of portraits of fighter pilots, I gave them one instruction and little else
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Behind the scenes of my recent collaborative portrait project with migrants
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On a recent assignment I surrendered the control of capture to migrants in Mexico
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I channeled the work of Edvard Munch in these portraits of Covid long-haulers
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"I thought being gay was wrong, I didn't understand my sexuality, I had to go away and find it”.
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A conversation with Hoda Afshar about photographing refugees
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Reflecting on metaphor when photographing climate change
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