Color Photos © Gregory Halpern, ZZXYZ Don’t worry, I’m not going to try to teach all of American Photography in an email on Tuesday morning. This is just an intro to some of what’s coming. And I want to be careful with your time. I’m working on sprucing things up here with the look and organization, and we’re going to change the name of the Digest in the next issue. I’m also going to include a section at the end with a link to the previous column, which will allow me to not have to resend a second email to the unopened, except for a specific few. And thank you so much for the support, it means ..read more

Art and artists from HYPE. I always found it difficult to figure out how to brand myself. It’s easy to call me a street photographer, but what city walking photographer isn’t also somewhat of a street photographer by default? I’m a walker. When all is said and done I hope.. no, I am, a documentarian, historian, writer, and photographer, just trying to learn about this crazy city, society, and the artistic lifestyle as I try by the skin of my teeth to survive it. Creative people have tons of trauma. Society doesn’t make it easy for us to survive. Maybe we didn’t fit well with the rigid struct ..read more

I never thought I was interesting. I grew up a feral upper-middle-class white straight male on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. I had friends. I went to summer camp and on trips. I had too many toys. People thought I was ‘friendly’, although that was probably because of my disposition and I had too much anxiety to talk back. Or I was too checked out from my ADD to care. Walking outside, I was surrounded by interesting people. I would go to the basketball courts to play ball with interesting people. I was surrounded by both the massively rich and others just getting by. People always assumed ..read more

Patagonia. I’m sitting on a sleepless 11-hour flight back from Argentina in the middle of the night. Clearly, the most fun 10 days I’ve had, especially when considering sharing it with my 5-Year-Old, but also one of the most exhausting stretches of my life. We spent 4 days touring Patagonia with a bus of 14 family members from 4 generations, and the rest in Buenos Aires, culminating in an exuberant 8-hour bat mitzvah. It was basically what you’d expect, stunningly beautiful, urban planning in the neighborhoods I saw that blew NYC out of the water, wonderful steak most nights, Malbec, late din ..read more

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One of the most fascinating parts of my job is meeting people from all over the world. And with this, I get to see firsthand the perceptions that people have of New York. The trends, the thoughts, the questions. For instance, New York was remarkably safe during the 2010s, which somehow lead to a trend of photographers asking me if it was safe to photograph Harlem. ‘Yes, but I’m not sure the people living there would like hordes of tourists traveling there to photograph them as they’re being priced out of the neighborhood.’ I started to think about these questions more deeply when De Blasio b ..read more

All photographs from It Was All a Dream. Lately, I’ve been thinking about the ebbs and flows of inspiration during this pandemic, especially working with a variety of photographers and seeing the patterns of motivation. It’s been fascinating to watch. At the time, it’s summer here, many are traveling, making up for lost time, some are still fairly locked down, and everyone’s going a little bonkers. And I’ve heard a lot of people mention that they haven’t felt inspired to photograph. That’s what inspired this post. You might be feeling like you’re running around with your hair on fire and it ..read more

What is Street Photography? This article is going to explore the broad genre of Street Photography, show you the different sides of it, and then talk about how to do it. I’m also going to show you a variety of images to show this broadness. Examples of traditional black and white street photography.   It’s a sensibility Street photography at its essence means candid photography of humanity. A street photograph is a real moment. The genre is both about the photographer and their subject. Street Photographers filter the world to share what interests them and what they are fe ..read more

What is Street Photography? This article is going to explore the broad genre of Street Photography, show you the different sides of it, and then talk about how to do it. I’m also going to show you a variety of images to show the broadness of the genre. Examples of traditional black and white street photography.   It’s a sensibility Street photography at its essence means candid photography of humanity. A street photograph is a real moment. The genre is both about the photographer and their subject. Street Photographers filter the world to share what interests them and what ..read more