This week, we talk about refining the scope of personal projects so that they can be more productive and less of just a time suck—sometimes, you just need to tweak the brief. Also, what happens when a portrait is not a portrait but is still manages to capture the essence of a person? Plus, does your love for photography wax and wane, or is it constant? Jim Krantz is our Photographer of the Week.

Ninalee Allen Craig, subject of iconic ‘American Girl in Italy’ photos, dies at 90 – The Washington Post

Tacita Dean: PORTRAIT – Exhibition
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Kodak Box Brownie Camera Converted To Digital Using Raspberry Pi Zero Mini PC – Geeky Gadgets

Home – Jim Krantz

Home – Stoecklein Photography

This week, we discuss the potential value of critiques in a social media landscape where the conversation around the work is often not a conversation at all. Also, a terrific NYT article begins a conversation around a veteran using photography as therapy and as a way to document the lives of other service men and women. Plus, we tackle a few #askOTP questions. Hideki Fujii is our Photographer of the Week.

My Social Media Philosophy: Some thoughts for Fellow Creators – YouTube

Rob Haggart (@aphotoeditor) • Instagram photos and videos

The Wrong Stuff: Prize-Winning Wildlife Photographer Accused Of Using Taxidermy : The Two-Way : NPR

Abba-Zaba – Wikipedia

Man of the Forest on Vimeo

Steve Giralt Studio (@stevegiralt) • Instagram photos and videos

‘No More Hope’: The Work of a Photojournalist Killed in Kabul – The New York Times

Devin Allen (@bydvnlln) • Instagram photos and videos

Restrepo (film) – Wikipedia

Person of the Forest on Vimeo

Circuitous Conversations #91 – Milo

House of Lies Freeze Frame Effect – YouTube

Microsoft Bob – Wikipedia

Office Assistant – Wikipedia

Create Your Podcast with Squarespace and Gimlet Creative

Hideki Fujii dies at age 75 – PhotoGuide Japan – by Philbert Ono

Hideki Fujii – Wikipedia

HIDEKI FUJII – Photographer – YouPic

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Iterations Podcast – Jeffery Saddoris

This week, we’re circling back to an earlier discussion around style and whether you choose your style (and maybe even overall aesthetic) or your style chooses you. Also, do you recognize the point at which emulating or being inspired by your artistic heroes became something more unique? Plus, planned obsolescence, photography in video games and do we really need a digital 8×10 camera? Ara Güler is our Photographer of the Week.

Popular YouTuber Says Apple Won’t Fix His iMac Pro Damaged While Disassembled | MacRumors Forums

God of War – Photo Mode

LargeSense LS911 is the first full frame 8×10 digital single shot camera | Photo Rumors

Flickr bought by SmugMug as Yahoo breakup begins | Technology | The Guardian

Is Ryan Kelly’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Photograph an American ‘Guernica’?

SmugMug: Protect, Share, Store, and Sell Your Photos

Ara Güler

The Eye of Istanbul | Trailer | Available now – YouTube

They Might Be Giants Istanbul Not Constantinople – YouTube

Lost Istanbul: 1950s and 60s – Photographs by Ara Güler | LensCulture

This week marks the end of year six of OTP and we’re talking about style – specifically questions around whether or not our particular style of making (photographic, design, painting or otherwise) is “baked” into how we see. If we stray too far from what we “know” does it simply look like we’re trying to emulate someone else? Also, a listener asks what (if any) obligation does one creative have to another? Mary Ellen Mark is our Photographer of the Week. Thank you for being here, for listening each week and for being so generous with your time and attention. We appreciate it. See you in year seven!

On Taking Pictures – Google+

Episode 01 – “Falling Bears” : On Taking Pictures

Let’s Explore Magazine | Curated Inspiration

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(3) Guy Plays Table Tennis Every Day for a Year – YouTube

Welcome to the Store – Jeffery Saddoris

NINE INCH NAILS – CLOTHING – Nine Inch Nails

Dreamscapes BTS Lecture – Bill Wadman – Soho Photo Fall 2016 – YouTube

Art Streiber (@aspictures) • Instagram photos and videos

Mary Ellen Mark Home Page

Mary Ellen Mark’s legendary photographs – in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian

Mary Ellen Mark – Wikipedia

Mary Ellen Mark: Celebrated Photographer Dies at 75 | Time

This week, a look inside four Instagram photographers who reveal the “contact sheets” behind some of their images. Turns out it can take quite a few shots to get that perfect selfie or lifestyle pic. Also, the start of a broader discussion around social media and the number of “subs” or follows as the real barrier on entry into making a living as a photographer. Also, trouble on the high seas costs one of us a lens. O. Winston Link is our Photographer of the Week.

4 Instagrammers Show Us How Many Photos They Took Before Nailing ‘The Shot’ | HuffPost

Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera | Blackmagic Design

DaVinci Resolve 15 – Fusion | Blackmagic Design

Disneyland music- Haunted Mansion ride audio part 1 – YouTube

Ruggard Desiccant Silica Gel Pack (40 g): Amazon.com: Industrial & Scientific

O. Winston Link’s Steam Locomotive Photographs – The New York Times

O.Winston Link – Artists – Danziger Gallery

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PHOTOGRAPHY LESSON WITH JOHN FREE – YouTube

The Station Agent – Wikipedia

This week, do individuals make the collective better? Do we have a responsibility to use whatever talents or gifts we may have (artistic or otherwise), or is it okay to simply walk away and do something else? Also, a recurring question from a listener around overcoming self-doubt, who asks, “does it ever go away?” Spoiler: no, but it’s often an interesting discussion. William Ukoh is our Photographer of the Week.

Photography by the Letter (Paperback) – Jeffery Saddoris

Burnside 35 | Creative Effects Art Lens | Petzval | Lensbaby

Piano Recital 1992 – Chopin Ballade on Vimeo

Redemption of a Lost Prodigy – The New York Times

The Axe Files with David Axelrod | Institute of Politics | The University of Chicago

Good Will Hunting | “The Best Part of My Day” – YouTube

Sometimes I Feel Like Quitting – YouTube

Episode 878 – Ta-Nehisi Coates — WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Footage of how Tom Cruise broke his ankle while filming his latest movie – The Graham Norton Show – YouTube

Telling the Stories of Defectors From North Korea – The New York Times

NYPhotoSalon Presenters Since January 1996

William Ukoh (@willyverse) • Instagram photos and videos

Nigerian Photographer William Ukoh’s ‘Whiteshadows’ Series – OkayAfrica

HOME — Dai Sugano

How to Do an Emulsion Lift to Transfer an Image from Polaroid to Paper

This week, we talk a little about the upcoming relaunch of Ektachrome and wonder whether Kodak will be able to make a boutique film commercially successful. Also, some insight into exhibiting your work from three successful curators, courtesy of the British Journal of Photography. Plus some terrific questions from YOU, the listeners, that we do our best to answer. Miranda Penn Turin is our Photographer of the Week.

Update from our film factory on Kodak Ektachrome Film – The Kodakery – Podcast – Podtail

Mad Men – The Carousel (Higher Quality) – YouTube

Wista 45 4×5 Wood Large Format Field Camera #14281E5 | eBay

Rui Morais De Sousa- Gandolfi Variant + Gandolfi Precision… | Flickr

Exhibiting your work: A curator’s perspective – British Journal of Photography

Totals App – Creating Stylish Invoices and More…

Miranda Penn Turin – Home

Miranda Penn Turin (@mirandapennturin) • Instagram photos and videos

Sorbet magazine – Behind the Lens with Miranda Penn Turin – YouTube

This week, a conversation with Joel Meyerowitz inspires a discussion around legacy and whether art of a specific time has a shelf life of relevancy, aesthetic or otherwise. Also, what’s more valuable as a photographer, being a generalist or focusing (no pun) on one subject, area, or technique? Plus a few words about enthusiasm with 600+ hours in the rear view. Jacko Vassilev is our Photographer of the Week.

Ami Vitale on Instagram: “Photo by @amivitale With a heavy heart, I share this news and hope that Sudan’s legacy will awaken us to protect this magnificent and…”

Ryan Weideman, the NYC Taxi Driver and Street Photographer

The Candid Frame #412 – Joel Meyerowitz — ibarionex

5by5 | On Taking Pictures #30: Entrances Confused with Dead Ends

Joel Meyerowitz: Where I Find Myself: A Lifetime Retrospective

About the S-System // Leica S-System // Photography – Leica Camera AG

Alden Men’s 405 – Indy Boot High Top Blucher Workboot – Brown Calfskin

Adobe Creative Cloud prices will increase April 16th, Photography Plan will stay the same: Digital Photography Review

G-RAID with Thunderbolt 2 | G-Technology

Jacko Vassilev Photography – Bulgaria

Jacko Vassilev | Harper’s Magazine

This week, a question from a listener around making photos “that have more meaning and heart” inspires a discussion around narrative and determining what we as makers are trying to say with our work versus what we want—or need—an audience to take away from it. We also touch on editing (not post processing) as a skill that often gets minimized or even overlooked in the picture making process. Plus, sometimes, you need to prepare for anything, including the valet wrecking your car 15 minutes before a shoot. Evelyn Bencicova is out Photographer of the Week.

This week, we’re talking about context and meaning in the work we create using Sally Mann’s new show at the National Gallery as background. Within the discussion, we address changing creative directions, the relationship between process and outcome and, despite repetition how sometimes taking a dramatic creative leap comes down to timing. Also, advice on creativity, courtesy of famed portrait and landscape photographer Nadav Kander. Elsa Dorfman is our Photographer of the Week.

On Taking Pictures – Google+

Elvis Presley: The Searcher – Watch the HBO Original Documentary | HBO

The Compleat Beatles – Wikipedia

Camera and Inspiration #11 | PPN | February 28th, 2018 – PhotoPodcasts.com

Sally Mann: Collodion and the Angel of Uncertainty

Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings

The Color of Humanity in Sally Mann’s South | The New Yorker

Hikari Creative (@hikari.creative) • Instagram photos and videos

Advice for Portrait Photographers: Learning from Nadav Kander – Photos by Nadav Kander | Interview by Alexander Strecker | LensCulture

Godox AD600 Pro Strobe Announced, Brings Performance Upgrades

Cactus V6 II HSS Wireless Flash Transceiver| CACTUS

Pentax 645Z HSS – Mark Kitaoka Photographs

Elsa Dorfman – Wikipedia

Elsa Dorfman

Errol Morris’s “The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography” | The New Yorker

Netflix – The B-Side