Humans are the problem. We are the problem. Let’s pretend, for the sake of this argument, that privacy and data collection issues don’t exist because those two things both make social media a problem, not to mention censoring and all… Read More »Social Media is not the problem
They say, “A picture is worth a thousand words,” and somehow, we’ve been led to believe that a thousand words means truth. But stop and ask yourself, “whose truth?” A picture is worth a thousand of whose words? Photographs lie.… Read More »Photographs LIe
I was on a roll this morning. I cleaned the house. I listened to all but the last 30 minutes of my latest audiobook by none other than Seth Godin. I took a shower. I ate lunch. I sat down… Read More »The Rabbit Hole
Just because I don’t experiment with using different film stocks, just because I don’t play with light leaks on purpose, just because I don’t burn my photographs before placing them on the wall, just because I don’t push rolls or… Read More »Doesn’t Mean I don’t have a voice
I’ve never really fit in. When you’re the daughter of immigrants, you never really fit in anywhere. You don’t fit in where you live or where your parents lived. I say this knowing I’m not the only one who feels… Read More »On fitting In
I ranted, the other day, about how we all need to get to work and stop copying each other. We need to sit down and make our art OURS. And today, I’m going to give you the ways I get… Read More »Now to Actually Do the Work
My husband is going bald. Male pattern baldness runs in both sides of his family. It also runs in mine, so it stands to reason that Henry will probably also go bald. We joke that Ben will be rich soon… Read More »Normalize baldness
Dear Sarah, Do your own damn work. In a few minutes, you are going to switch over to your Pinterest account, and you are going to start removing photography “inspiration” because you know, in your heart, that these images are… Read More »A fairly Impolite letter to anyone who needs to hear it (and myself)
It’s 10:26 AM Pacific Time, and I am still in my nightgown, coffee in a Yeti next to my laptop, and my Sofie girl has asked me if she can dance. She’s asking for Cinderella, but I decide that I… Read More »in a world of stem
Today I hit a breaking point. I felt stress wash over me. I was tired of telling Sofie to clean her room for the fifth time with her staring at me like she just wasn’t going to do it. I… Read More »Sometimes we break