Jeff Curto's Camera Position

Camera Position is back! After a too-long hiatus, I’m back with a great series of ideas about the creative side of photography. In this episode, metaphor and symbol and the way they can enhance our photographs.

In this episode, Camera Position  takes a field trip! A great visit to A Gallery for Fine Photography in New Orleans, Louisiana and a great conversation with gallery owner Joshua Mann Pailet links up the idea of collecting photographs with a consummate collector.     Links for this episode: Tulane University Marching Band A Gallery … Continue reading Camera Position 92 : A Gallery for Fine Photography in New Orleans →

Living with art… if we were wanting to be writers, we’d read books and we’d collect work by our favorite authors. As photographers, living with work by artists we admire is an important part of living the artful life. This podcast talks about how important it is for us to collect photographs we love and … Continue reading Camera Position 91 : Living With Art →

Sometimes inertia gets the best of us and inertia was responsible for Camera Position’s absence these last few months. And photography can be like that, as well. This is the story of how one picture helped get me moving on a beautiful day in Rome and that same picture helped get me moving on talking … Continue reading Camera Position 90 : Inertia & Inspiration →

Camera position and camera distance… are they the same thing? As we position the camera, are we also thinking about how we position ourselves relative to the subject? By looking at work by August Sander, the Bechers, Andreas Gursky, Tina Barney and Jessica Todd Harper, we examine ideas about how we distance ourselves from a … Continue reading Camera Position 89 : Camera Position & Camera Distance →

In this, the second of a two-part “desert island photograph” project, we cover more Camera Position listeners describing that one image that they’d take with them for visual sustenance if they were stranded on a desert island. Links for this episode: Don Hong-Oai – A History of Photography “Summer School” podcast Cartier-Bresson at Magnum Edward … Continue reading Camera Position 88 : Desert Island Photographs – Part 2 →

Back in Camera Position #83, I asked Camera Position listeners to pick their one “desert island photograph;” that one image that they’d take with them for visual sustenance if they were stranded on a desert island. This episode shares the first few of those responses; others will follow in the next episode. Thanks to those … Continue reading Camera Position 87 : Desert Island Photographs – Part 1 →

One of my goals for my workshops is to help the participants learn how to cope with the volume of images that they are making and to edit their images so that the group of photographs becomes their own. This podcast is a partial response to my friend Brooks Jensen using his podcast platform to … Continue reading Camera Position 86 : Italy Photo Workshops – Photographing and Editing in Rome & Tuscany →

In a world populated by billions and billions of images, with more being made every second, how do we find a path for ourselves as image makers? We look at the dilemma of quantity and quality in this episode. Links for this Podcast Alec Soth interview on the Big Red & Shiny Blog Alec Soth’s … Continue reading Camera Position 85 : A Bazillion Photographs →

Nurturing a set of “interesting visual friends” is one of the ways we can help create an environment of creativity around us. We can do that by networking both in the virtual space of today’s social networking tools and in the real world space of spending time with other photographers. This podcast episode talks about … Continue reading Camera Position 84 : Interesting Visual Friends →