K.Andrzej’s Popup Photographic Art Exhibit
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by kennethwajda
2d ago
The Howard Greenberg Gallery in Manhattan is among the top fine art galleries for photography and houses work of the legends, virtually all the major players including Robert Frank, Eugène Atget, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Saul Leiter, Mary Ellen Mark, William Klein, Ruth Orton, Walker Evans, Weegee, Bruce Davidson, André Kertész, William Klein, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Berenice Abbott, Arnold Newman, Gordon Parks, Edward Steichen, Paul Strand, Garry Winogrand, Edward Weston, Joel Meyerowitz, Vivian Maier and many more. The Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York. Now, I can say I also have exhibited the ..read more
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As Photography Has Become Ubiquitous, It’s Become Irrelevant (to the Masses)
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by kennethwajda
1w ago
The era of film photography produced some seriously good photographers. Photographers whose work hangs in museums and galleries and is revered for its quality. Robert Frank, Walker Evans, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Helen Levitt, Diane Arbus. Even recent discoveries like Vivian Maier’s work are celebrated. Because it’s of a quality that we can appreciate. Perhaps because we don’t see it as much nowadays. Since the advent of digital photography, specifically phone cameras, it’s my contention that photography has been lessened in importance as it’s been relegated to a pastime of the masses, and when ..read more
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Tuesday Night Photographers Gather
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by kennethwajda
1w ago
For the past two years, I and a group of local photographers have been gathering at a Colorado Irish pub on Tuesday nights. If you stop into Mike O’Shays in Longmont, Colorado on any Tuesday evening, you’ll find a gang of photo enthusiasts from amateur snapshooters to seasoned pros sitting around, drinking Guinness pints or other drinks, getting wings, cheeseburgers or shepherds pie and showing a bit of work via prints, ipad or laptop. It all started in March 2022 when I went to the pub to write. I often write comedy, fiction, screenplays and these blog posts in public settings. It gets me out ..read more
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A Trio of Photographs of a Longtime Friend
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by kennethwajda
1w ago
Some friendships last over multiple decades and across long miles. My former photo editor, Martin, who hired me on as a staff photographer at The Times of Trenton (NJ), is one of those friendships. I’ve seen him when I’m back on the east coast and he’s visited with me when he’s out in Colorado skiing. So, this week, when he posted a photo with a “Welcome to Colorado” sign, my first message to him was, “Where are we meeting for a drink?” We made lunch plans for next day meeting at my favorite saloon in town. He was traveling with his friend Bob, who I’ve also known for decades. After lunch, I s ..read more
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A Peek Inside My World
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by kennethwajda
2w ago
I probably live in a place that’s a bit more artistic and bohemian chic than you’d see if I decorated and furnished with a visit to Pottery Barn or Crate & Barrel. I wrote yesterday about how I make photographs that are a part of my world, and they really are quite a big part. Casa Wajda photographed with a Leica M9 and 28mm Elmarit. I count a dozen framed photographs in this section alone. Most are mine. One photograph is from a friend and one’s an Avedon. Plus, I see seven cameras and a pile of photography monographs. And one background pole, in case I want to photograph in this space. Y ..read more
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“Do You Use Both Film and Digital?
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by kennethwajda
2w ago
I had that question asked of me yesterday and I get that question a lot. I was at an Oscar party with friends and someone I hadn’t met before heard I was a photographer (it probably was an easy guess with a Leica R8 hanging over my shoulder), and asked that question. I said yes, I use film for the things that matter to me, like this gathering of friends, and I use digital for commercial clients and editorial work, where the client wants the photos immediately. And if I need color photographs, I typically will shoot a digital SLR. For street photography, too, it’s digital. I know myself and I h ..read more
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A Horizontal Rolleiflexer
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by kennethwajda
3w ago
I’m a Rolleiflex user and a firm believer in this camera is one of the best for portrait and documentary work. Better than a Leica since the film negative is larger. And more affordable than a Leica, too. I recently picked up this Rolleiflex T for a song because it has a chip in the taking lens from someone with a spanner wrench slipping and chipping its rear element. It has no effect on photos, and so the price was right. I wanted it mostly for its removable waist level finder, to replace a beat up old one on my Rolleiflex 3.5F. I put a prism finder on it and realized that if I hold it horizo ..read more
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An Invited Guest: Having a ‘Street Photographer’ at the Wedding
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by kennethwajda
3w ago
When you’ve been a photojournalist and documentary photographer for as long as I have, including having photographed U.S. Presidential campaigns, and are a photographer who also makes portraits using black and white film (and hand prints them in a traditional halide silver darkroom), it’s challenging to explain to people what it is I do at weddings. I’m not a wedding photographer. In fact, I don’t want to be a wedding photographer. And certainly not any bridal couple’s only photographer. Because to be their wedding photographer, there are expectations that the bride and groom will get a lot ..read more
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Light Recordist: The Light On Stuff
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by kennethwajda
3w ago
That’s what we photograph, not stuff but the light on stuff. Photography is the recording of light which burns onto the silver halides of film or makes an image with a digital sensor. It’s all light. “Light Recordist” would be another accurate name for a photographer. When you see the light and realize that there is some or there is none, you’ve graduated to being a photographer of light and understanding why some photos work well with good contrast and other look flat and drab. Here’s one that uses light well. I don’t always make an effort to create photographs, they sometimes happen in front ..read more
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Conference Event Coverage: a Biz Summit Photo Assignment
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by kennethwajda
3w ago
I like to be self-contained when I pack for a gig, to keep it to one trip from the car. That said, I was hired for 4 hours to photograph an energy conference this week and wanted to bring a small softbox strobe in case I needed to photograph business headshots or any group shots. As it turns out, the client asked for booth photos of the exhibitors, so that’s where the studio light came in handy. Here’s my kit ready to wheel from the car. I picked up this rolling cart, which is very small and has a folding 12″ square base foot, for $7 this past weekend at a local flea market. Score! It beats t ..read more
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