Zen in the Art of Photography is one of the best little photo books ever! For years, it has been my guide to image making and perhaps more importantly, to seeing.

It is easy to make images of the new, the exotic and the distant. Things that are close and familiar are much harder to see.

  Photography as we are accustomed, does not represent the full factuality of the real world. This is in part due to optical restrictions of both the lens of a…

The choice of subject and its impact on our lives plays a critical role in determining the value of our time spent making images.