John Edwin Mason: Documentary, Motorsports, Photo History

37 Instagram Photographers You Might Not Know (But Should Definitely Follow)

[Note: I'll update this post periodically (at the bottom of the page), adding photographers and links. We're now up to over 80 photographers!] Last Saturday morning, I clicked on a link that took me to yet another photography list with only white guys on it. It wasn't the way that... Read more →

Shabbat Shalom, from the Israeli Defense Forces

A couple of days ago, I called it "the Instagram War." I was referring to the ways in which supporters Israel, on one side, and of Hamas, on the other, were using Instagram to express anger and grief and to attack the enemy, during the most recent fighting. (You can... Read more →

The Instagram War: Gaza & Israel, 2012

...welcome to a media space in which we are consuming hostility and processing raw data and raw propaganda almost as quickly as the war correspondent, the fighter pilot, the governments, the diplomats and the antagonists themselves. --Michael Shaw * * * Updated: 18 November 2012 Social media and smart phones... Read more →

Photography Changes Everything: A Review, Part 2

I see photography as one of the most democratic mediums of the contemporary world... since the advent of Kodak and the Brownie camera, photography has been a potential medium of the masses. Quite untrained, I was able, with a little direction, to use the medium to express my view of... Read more →

Déjà Vu All Over Again: James Estrin & "The Tsunami of Vernacular Photographs"

We can't see the ideas for the illustrations. Our world is simply flooded with them. --Editorial, Harper's magazine, 1911 ...we are bombarded by pictures every waking hour, in on form or another... transitory images seen, unconsciously, in passing, from the corner of our eyes, flashing at us.... I don't know... Read more →