I’ve been following over 50 people daily on Instagram for a couple of months and I’ve made some rewarding friendships as well as seen some wonderful and serious photography. My recent friend @meanwhile, an American living and working in Tajikistan, had one of his Instagram photos published on the CNN website introducing the announcement of Facebook’s recent acquisition of Instagram, the most popular photo portal for serious as well as not so serious photographers, or should I say iPhone Photographers, or should I simply say Instagram photographers on Smart Phones […]

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With the changing times and the constant shifting of photographic techniques, it’s getting more and more difficult to define who is a photographer and who isn’t. It used to be that photographers used cameras. Most photographers still do, but Smart Phones are getting to be a big influence in image-making both on the popular level (like “snapshots” used to be) and on a more involved level (like Gary Winnogrand “snapshots” used to be). But then there are those who don’t even use a camera, or a phone, or a shoe-box […]

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The whole question of “being” a photographer has changed profoundly. Or maybe it’s going through a cycle. I’ve read some interesting articles recently on the web concerning what photography, or even art, should or shouldn’t be. Who is an artist or who is a photographer, or should I say, who is a VALID photographer or artist seems to be a questions which burns in many hearts. Joerg Colberg’s recent title “Is the Internet Killing Socially Awkward Artists?” or Colin Pantall’s “Art that sells is the destructive 1%” are both provocative […]

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Sounds like a dumb question. Obviously, a photograph is a photograph: today, yesterday and tomorrow. A rose is a rose is a rose. But that’s exactly the point. The rose changes depending on who is looking, who is smelling and, above all, the relationship between the two. Well, the same with photographs. Historically, a photograph was a medium charged with exciting information. something which stimulated a virtual experience, a memory, a thought process or simply a momentary thought of someone or something. Ok, it’s all still true, but the value […]

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The profession of photography is changing dramatically and quickly. The role of the image is undergoing semantic restructuring. The world of Fine Art is questioning itself on what’s next. Where do you stand? Where do you want to be in five years? I’d like to try and investigate where the profession of image making is going and what changes are taking place. I’m open to discussing historical, psychological and social changes which influence the use of imagery. Let’s look together into the future in order to understand where image making […]

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