Bob Shell: Learning to See and Equipment Meditations

  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

Tony Ward: A Sunday Ride to Atlantic City

. . Text by Tony Ward, Copyright 2020 A Sunday Ride to Atlantic City . I received a call recently from one of my childhood friends, Howard Lee to take some pictures of a group of motorcycle enthusiast that he put together for a ride to Atlantic City on August 30th..  Howard and I go … Read more

Dominic Mercier: Fleeing Opression, Finding Creative Freedom

  Text by Dominic Mercier, Copyright 2020 Fleeing Oppression, Finding Creative Freedom . When Milt Ward arrived in Philadelphia in the late 1930s, he was fleeing the oppressive and segregated south. But what he found in his new home was a welcoming, creative community that would bolster his artistic skills and shape his distinguished career … Read more

Leif Skoogfors: Interview

  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 saved up … Read more