“This is an early digital photograph for me. I started shooting digital some 10 years ago. I had been using Kodachrome for decades, but digital techniques offered me many new possibilities and incredible flexibility. It stimulated creation.” YearsCreationPossibilityYears AgoIncrediblesPhotographDecadesTechniqueShootingDigitalFlexibilityNew Possibilities Author:Bruno Barbey
“In a Balkan country, not so many years ago, a party which had been beaten by a narrow margin in a general election retrieved its fortunes by shooting a sufficient number of the representatives of the other side to give it a majority. . . . Cromwell and Robespierre . . . acted likewise.” GivingYearsCountrySidesPartyNumbersYears AgoElectionMajorityFortuneShootingSufficientRepresentativesBeatenMarginsBalkansGeneral ElectionsCromwell Book:Unpopular Essays Source: Unpopular Essays
“I was at a Madonna show many, many years ago and I was in the sweet spot and she came out and I mean it was the best part of the show. And I was shooting, shooting, shooting, shooting. And I'm like, "God, I must have shot a hundred pictures have I not run out of film?" And I opened the back of my camera and there was no film in there. So that happened to me only once.” YearsMeanShowsRunningFilmHappenedSweetHundredShotsYears AgoCamerasSpotsShooting Author:Danny Clinch
“A few years ago, for my birthday, Sean Price Williams said, "I'll give you one free day of shooting." He shot Kati with an I and co-shot Fake It So Real. While we've always worked together, I didn't want him to do it for free, so he cashed in his birthday chip and came for this one day.” WantGivingYearsSaidRealTogetherOne DayShotsYears AgoShootingFakeChipsWant HimMy BirthdaySean Author:Robert Greene
“The inspiration for this movie [Something New] was this Newsweek article that came out a couple of years ago that talks about 42.4 percent of black women in America aren't married. Black women are shooting up the corporate ladder way faster than our black male counterparts. And (black men) are either dating outside their race, in jail or dying. And so if you want to have a family, you want to be married, you have to look at other options.” IfsMenWayWantYearsLooksInspirationAmericaBlackRaceDyingCoupleMarriedPercentYears AgoDatingMalesFasterShootingCorporateSomething NewJailArticlesBlack WomenLaddersBeing MarriedCounterpartsBlack MalesShooting Up Author:Sanaa Lathan
“Ten years ago in Antarctica shooting "Encounters at the End of the World," I met a very fine volcanologist from Cambridge University [Clive Oppenheimer] and we kept talking about doing a film and all of a sudden it became serious when he hinted at the possibility to film in North Korea.” WorldYearsEndsFilmTalkingPossibilitySeriousFineMetsTenYears AgoUniversityShootingEncountersEnd Of The WorldKoreaNorth KoreaCambridgeAntarcticaCambridge University Author:Werner Herzog
“There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the very gallant Russian poet Gumilev was put to death by Lenin's ruffians thirty odd years ago was that during the whole ordeal, in the prosecutor's dim office, in the torture house, in the winding corridors that led to the truck, in the truck that took him to the place of execution, and at that place itself, full of the shuffling feet of the clumsy and gloomy shooting squad, the poet kept smiling.” YearsReasonWholeHateHouseFeetPoetOfficeYears AgoShootingOddReason WhyThirtyTortureExecutionDictatorProvokingTruckElusiveGloomyClumsyGleamCorridorsProsecutorSquadOrdealsGallantShufflingRuffian Author:Vladimir Nabokov