In “an age of ubiquitous images” At the start of this year, I wrote an editorial on how to write for DigBoston that proved quite popular and led to an increase in the number of article pitches we get from freelance journalists weekly. But it also led a growing number of photographers and […]
CAN’T KNOCK THE HUSSLE
What happens when Drake rips your pic of Nipsey and gives you no credit?
‘YOU DON’T LOOK HAITIAN’
That’s what people tell Valerie Anselme, but her photos show what Haitians really look like “Anytime I say I’m Haitian, I’ve had people look at me and say, ‘You don’t look Haitian,’” photographer Valerie Anselme says. “It’s not only happened to me, it’s happened to other people I know.” The […]
JOURDAN CHRISTOPHER’S PHOTOS OF BOSTON ARE FREAKING INCREDIBLE
We’ve been ogling Strangers in Boston all week
GALLERY REVIEW: Angela A’Court: Thisness—Gallery BOM
Monday Morning—Copyright 2017 Angela A’Court Soft pastel is as close as an artist can get to working with pigment itself, the powder that gives paint its color. It is also regarded unfairly as an amateur’s medium, though the impression is correct in that not many people use it with as much urgency and personal […]
GALLERY REVIEW: Sean Downey: Wholly Idle—Steven Zevitas Gallery
Wholly Idle—Copyright 2017 Steve Downey Sean Downey’s work at Steven Zevitas is dealing with an old problem, that of painting in an age in which painting is an obsolete medium, at least in the respect that there have been easier ways to make images for a century and a half. Downey is digging into […]
GALLERY REVIEW: Robert Richfield: Abridged—Gallery Kayafas
Gouwe Rail Bridge, Gouda, Netherlands 2016—Copyright 2017 Robert Richfield Instilled with a love of mighty bridges as a child in Cincinnati, where five of them cross the Ohio River, Robert Richfield set out to photograph them in all of their horizontal grandeur. Early attempts included multiple exposures of 4×5 negatives, which must have been […]
FISH EYE: MASS DIVER ELLENBOGEN ON HIGH-SPEED UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHY AND SHOOTING SHARK PORTRAITS
“In the modern-day world we see photography as very quick, very instantaneous and immediate. But in reality this kind of photography takes a lot of patience, a lot of setup, different lenses and lighting that make it more complicated. “
PHOTO FEATURE: INVISIBLE FRACTURES
A new exhibit reveals nonphysical bruises in healing light
REMEMBERING THE HUB’S ADORABLE AND EXPLOITED NEWSIES
Through the warts and beauty of it all (but mostly the warts), street photographer, sociologist, and activist Lewis Wickes Hine focused on the seedy underworld of child news distribution
