Street Portraits: Spontaneous Human Openness
A photographer doing commercial studio work spontaneously decided to hit the street with a camera and a simple backdrop taped to a wall. He learned about human nature and his community, but he also learned about his own capacity to take risks.
Shooting Street: The Popculturist Interviews Photographer Danny Santos II
The Popculturist interviews Danny Santos II, a photographer with lots of street smarts — because the ordinary street is his studio and his passion.
Life As A Human Is One Year Old!
On February 1st of last year, we crawled out onto the internet with a post that read: Life As A Human Has Begun! It seems like only yesterday that we said: 'To our readers, today we have launched the site with seven articles. In the days, weeks … Read more →
Making Movies Accessible – Make ‘em on Your Phone
Today, I have an HD video camera on my iPhone 4 that in many respects can be as useful as a $15,000 camera.
Movement in Photography: A Twist in Time
Christopher Holt discusses the magic and mystery of capturing movement in photography.
Photographing Death in Venice
Christopher Holt learns about death in Venice when he visits Isola di San Michele — The Isle of the Dead — with his camera.
Life As A Human Likes…7
Life As A Human Likes is a weekly feature of blogs and websites we love. This week, we share a few links to some amazing web sites that focus on our sun, our solar system, the wonders of the universe and an amazing new telescope set to launch in 2014.
To Be Dead in Paris: A Photographic Tour of Père Lachaise Cemetery
Christopher Holt takes you on a photographic tour of the hauntingly famous Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris where you’ll find the graves of Jim Morrison, Chopin, Gertrude Stein, Oscar Wilde and 297,000 more graves of the obscure, the famous…and the infamous.
100,000 Buddhas – The Buddhist Treasures of China Part 2
Even now, there are parts of China that remain mysterious to foreigners. Until recently, foreigners knew little of China’s Buddhist temples, shrines and grottoes. Vincent Ross takes us on a trip into the Buddhist heart of China, including a visit to the caves which hold 100,000 images of Buddha.
No Pasarán: Found Photographs and Lost Eras
A photographer and writer remembers his father’s passion for the Spanish Civil War as he strips together old 35 mm negatives in an attempt to create a web background. The web background didn’t work but the image that survived the failed experiment is a powerful testament to human life, exploitation and the quest for freedom.
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