How to Do Event Photography – Tips for Business, Conference, and Family Events
How to Do Event Photography – Tips for Business, Conference, and Family Events Event Photography is a lesson in extremes – you might be capturing one day a gala with gorgeous lighting, beautiful...
View ArticleWhy Gesture and Emotion Are So Important in Street Photography
Why Gesture and Emotion Are So Important in Street Photography I find a fascinating aspect of street photography is that it can be so difficult to figure out the reasons why one photograph may work...
View ArticleHow to Do Portrait Photography – Tips for Business Portraits, Families, and...
Portrait photography is both a difficult and complex genre, whether you are working with businesses, creative portraits, or families. You need to consider a range of technical issues, including...
View ArticleWhat is Street Photography? – Learning the Sensibility and Techniques, from...
What is Street Photography? This article is going to explore the broad genre of Street Photography, show you the different sides of it, and then talk about how to do it. I’m also going to show you a...
View ArticleThe Camera is a Pen
All photographs from It Was All a Dream. Lately, I’ve been thinking about the ebbs and flows of inspiration, particularly with the ups and downs of the last few years. Since I work with a variety of...
View ArticleFear City
One of the most fascinating parts of my job is meeting people from all over the world. And with this, I get to see firsthand the perceptions that people have of New York. The trends, the thoughts, the...
View ArticlePrince and Broadway
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View ArticleThe Crossroads of Luxury
On the corner of Canal and Greene is a crossroads for luxury in NYC. A hive of luxury spread. Or a symptom of it. There are few places in the world where you can experience fashion in the way you can...
View Article100 Stereotypical New Yorkers
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View ArticleArgentina, and Travel Photography Versus Home
Patagonia. I’m sitting on a sleepless 11-hour flight back from Argentina in the middle of the night. Clearly, the most fun 10 days I’ve had, especially when considering sharing it with my 5-Year-Old,...
View ArticleI Never Thought I Was Interesting
I never thought I was interesting. I grew up a feral upper-middle-class white straight male on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. I had friends. I went to summer camp and on trips. I had too many toys....
View ArticleChanging Course
Art and artists from HYPE. I always found it difficult to figure out how to brand myself. It’s easy to call me a street photographer, but what city walking photographer isn’t also somewhat of a street...
View ArticleWhat is American Photography?
Color Photos © Gregory Halpern, ZZXYZ Don’t worry, I’m not going to try to teach all of American Photography in an email on Tuesday morning. This is just an intro to some of what’s coming. And I want...
View ArticleWhat is Glass City?
[We’re renaming the Digest to Glass City. It will be about photography, writing, creativity, and urbanism. I always struggled with what to call the newsletter. Or perhaps it’s better to use the term...
View ArticleSo I Bought a Case of Fake Watches on Canal Street
So yes, last week I bought an entire case of fake watches on Canal Street. I’ve been seeing this guy for the longest time with the most beautiful cases of watches, and a couple weeks ago things...
View ArticleIntroduction
“It is the ambition of the New Yorker to live upon the Fifth Avenue, to take his airings in the [Central] Park, to sleep with his fathers in Green-Wood.” – The New York Times, 1866 Our Brooklyn...
View ArticleIs NYC Safe?
2013 – “Is Harlem safe to visit?” 2017 – “Are the Subway’s safe?” I can’t recall the number of times I was asked the Harlem question during Bloomberg’s reign as Mayor (2001-2013), and the Subway...
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