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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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