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#EN2.4 Vehicles of prejudice - part II
Sources of power that lie outside and inside us.
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The human within the photographic process: essays on the mind and the unpredictable and surprising practice of photography. Published once a month.
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#EN2.3 Vehicles of prejudice - part I
Sources of power that lie outside and inside us.
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#EN2.2 Stereotypes
Still talking about them.
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#EN2.1 New Year's resolutions
The basics of dismantling stereotypes.
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#EN1.12 The well
Oh well...the time has come to fill it again. During the pandemic years, I decided to go back to college. To my surprise, getting back into books after the age of 30 was easier than I expected. Many people ask me what it’s like to go back to
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#EN1.11 Photography is a language
But - what is a language? When I was six years old, I took two photos at the seaside. I still remember the camera, the pictures, the place, and the time. Episodic memory is a part of our long-term memory that stores the engrams, the traces of events we experience
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#EN1.10 Stories we tell ourselves
If you don't keep your feet, there is no telling where you might be swept off to. Every Making Pictures article originates from something I observe while reading or engaging in other activities. It could be a simple thought or a more complex idea that distracts me from
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#EN1.9 Far, near
When distance is not just a matter of focal length. In the Summer of 2015, I spent two weeks wandering around California. One of the things I remember is the Shot in iPhone 6 advertising campaign, a worldwide gallery of images taken only with the iPhone 6’s new camera.
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#EN1.8 Between Vulcan and Mercury
Multitasking and capacity-constrained systems. Mercury [Hermes]. Wood engraving by Jonnard after W.B. Richmond, 1866. Source: europeana.eu. Eruption of Mount Etna, 1766. Source: europeana.eu. To what extent does multitasking get along with creativity? I wonder because I often feel that I carry on the creative practice (whether photographing,
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#EN1.7 An ode to idleness
Least effort principle and productive thinking. Wolves spend most of their lives lazing around. I didn’t note the references, but a few months ago I stumbled upon this study that followed the life of a pack in the wild: 1. When food abounds and there are no threats, wolves
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#EN1.6 Information and storytelling
Flows of nothingness and worlds full of meaning. This post is the son of a computer engineering degree, Joan Fontcuberta’s essays, and interactive fiction1. We’ll talk about information flow, meaning, and the eternal dilemma of “there are too many images out there” that photography has been carrying around
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#EN1.5 Big fish
Holistic and analytical visions in photographic composition. In this article, we’ll talk about composition and fish. The organization of elements within the photographic frame is one of the topics I find most interesting and to which I return repeatedly. There are many different ways to read an image but
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#EN1.4 Awkward and uneasy
When dealing with people, no one system works for everyone. One of the key features of my photographic process is feeling awkward and uneasy. Honestly, I think a certain amount of embarrassment is part of the photography package, especially when dealing with people. Yet scrolling through social feeds, I see
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#EN1.3 Emotional accelerators
Images between priming and activation levels. In 1996 psychologists John A. Bargh, Mark Chen, and Lara Burrows organized an experiment with a group of students at New York University. The task, disguised as a language proficiency assessment test, consisted of constructing four-word sentences from randomly mixed groups of five terms
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#EN1.2 A mind full of schemas
The enigma of the photographer’s voice. Hello, we’re off to a serious start today! It’s the first “real” Making Pictures article. If you’ve subscribed to the newsletter, you’ll receive posts via email (and Substack App, if you’d like) on the last Wednesday of each
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#EN1.1 Welcome
If this is your first time here, this is a good place to start. When I wrote the first introduction to Making Pictures in December 2021, there were two difficult things I had to deal with. Now I have three. First, breaking the ice is always a little awkward when