For the longest time I coveted a 50mm f/1.4 Nikkor AIS. This yearning began in art school, where photography was the family member that drank too much at Thanksgiving and was co...
12 January, 2019
Film Photography Shows Why Private Property and Capitalist Markets Work Well – By Frank H. Wu
If anyone had doubts about it, the comparison of digital photography and film photography presents a compelling argument for the norms of private property and the capitalist mar...
8 January, 2019
Do We Need to Know What We’re Looking At? – By Frank H. Wu
I recently took two tours that revealed different philosophies about how we look at the world around us. At the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, there are no title cards for t...
3 January, 2019
35mm Compact Camera Photographer #30 – Wen Zeng
My name is Wen. I'm a 23 year-old design strategist from Los Angeles, California. I'm an avid traveler, reader, and someone who possesses an unbound curiosity for the world.
It is often said that the best way to improve something, anything that you do creatively is to give yourself a project. A self set goal that focuses your creative energies onto ...
On Thursday last week I spent half the day taking photos of a man who makes and restores violins. It was, to say the least, an enjoyable experience, but it also felt like a time...
8 December, 2018
My Photography is STILL Better Than Yours – by Anil Mistry
My images are sharper than yours.
I acknowledge that your pictures are always crisply in focus,
But my images are so sharp that they can cut your cornea if you look at them at 4...
2 December, 2018
Are All My Photographs Failures? – By Frank H. Wu
My photos fail to tell a story. I was talking to an NYU professor of photography, among other subjects, who is expert in teaching his students to tell a story. He allows them ei...
