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Photo essay / Aug 20, 2015

On the Emptiness of Social Media Fame

Read as a Google Doc or download the PDF. — Dear friend and fellow streettog, I went to sleep last night, and woke up this morning in beautiful Leeds, England, and suddenly this story …

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Photo essay / Oct 28, 2013

On Social Media and Street Photography

At the moment of writing this, I have over 30,000+ Facebook fans, 13,000+ Twitter followers, 20,000+ Google+ followers, and 12,000+ YouTube subscribers. People have called me a bit of a “social media phenomenon” at …

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Photo essay / Nov 5, 2012

How Many “Favorites” Or “Likes” Are Enough?

(A photograph from my ongoing “Suits” project. London 2011) This is an essay I wrote addressing our obsession with “favorites” and “likes” on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Flickr, 500px, Google+, photo blogs, and so on. …

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