Overfitting
What machine learning, forty years in a lab, and one good prompt have in common
Ways of Seeing, Again
John Berger, a blue carpet, and the averages AI keeps showing us
To Collect the World
Susan Sontag's On Photography, read again in the age of AI
The Stranger's Eye
Robert Frank's The Americans, and learning to shoot true rather than well
The Photographs She Never Showed
Vivian Maier's hundred thousand negatives, and the order of shooting and showing
What Would Barthes Have Said?
Camera Lucida, the that-has-been, and images with no one behind them
Glad I Started Late
A first camera near seventy, Nietzsche's amor fati, and the art of subtracting
How to Make a Photo Essay
Setting a photograph beside a few lines of writing.