Text by Kenneth Taylor, Copyright 2021 . Film is Definitely Back . Some say the return to film is a reaction to a world where everything has become digital, fast and easy. It is certainly true that shooting film requires you to slow down and this makes it a very enjoyable experience. Perhaps the … Read more
Text by Bob Shell, Copyright 2021 . The Incredible Shrinking Business . I didn’t come up with that title. An old friend, veteran of the photography magazine business, used that phrase and it stuck in my mind. When I first got serious about photography in the late 1960s and early 1970s, there were many … Read more
Text by Bob Shell, Copyright 2020 . The 60’s . In the summer of 1966 I moved to Washington, DC, to take a job I’d been offered at the Smithsonian Institution as a biological illustrator. I’d been making detailed paintings and pen and ink drawings of insects, birds, and animals since grade school. I … Read more
Text by Bob Shell, Copyright 2020 . Learning to See and Equipment Meditations . Many people, when they get into photography, become “equipment freaks,”. buying lens after lens in a quest for better photographs. I know, I was one myself. Those people keep the camera companies in business. I didn’t understand that … Read more
. LEIF SKOOGFORS INTERVIEW: . TW: When did you first realize your vocation would be to become a photojournalist? Who or what influences in your life early on led you down this path? LS: The weekly arrival of LIFE magazine, in those days a respected and worldly periodical showed me the world. I … Read more