Month: October 2017

Don’t aim to be “great” in life — aim to be “non-small”.

Paint your own mural
Quilt work patches
Overcome your own visual hurdles.

Dear friend,

One of the most difficult things I personally face, and what you might face is overcoming resistance in your photography.

I’m the most self-centered, vain, egotistical, and confident photographer I know— how, and why?

Dear friend,

Why do you feel guilty shooting street photos?

Dear friend,

What do you really want from photography?

Best student photos from our New York “Finding Your Own Voice” Workshop October 7-8, 2017. There are a few spots left in the  upcoming New York workshop 14-15 (last workshop in America for at least a year) and sign up for the upcoming Europe workshops before they are sold out!

As a street photographer, you’re constantly improvising… like a good jazz musician.

Reality: the world as it is. Perception: how you see and experience the world.

I’m EK
Not reppin the BK
I’m a Queens boy

How do you become an “ethical” Street Photographer, and is there even such a thing?

To promote our new book, ‘CREATIVE EVERY DAY‘, I would like to share some thoughts with you on how you can be a (more) creative photographer– and do it all day, every day.

YOU ARE AN ARTIST.

Make, learn, play. Every day. CREATIVE EVERY DAY is your inspirational foundation to spread your creative wings and soar to the next level.

I recently shot a friend’s wedding on a digital medium-format Pentax 645Z, and wondered– what would it like to be to shoot street photography with it?

We are always trying to fill ourselves up. What if we sought emptiness?

A cup is only useful when it is empty.

A room is only useful to store things when it is empty.

Your mind can only be creative, if your mind is empty, and you allow new ideas to enter.

Create more space and emptiness in your life, if you want to be more creative, happier, and more satisfied.

Seek less.

Read more: Zen and Photography >

Why am I so vain?
To smother the self-doubt and the pain

Best student photos from our two day New York City workshop October 4-5, 2017.

Join us on the next workshop. A few spots remaining.

A good way to innovate or come up with new ideas: always think to yourself, “What if the opposite were true?”

What are we so afraid of in street photography, and why are we afraid?

I just heard the good news– my two very good friends: Mark and Isi (Isi played violin at me and Cindy’s wedding) just got engaged.

Only 1 week left to pick up a copy of SUNLANDERS in the Haptic Shop, rated one of the best color photobooks in the last five years.

A fun and deep idea I got from Nietzsche— be like a child, and take your play very seriously.

I love variety. I love variety in food, coffee, and travel.

Dear friend,

One of the hardest things in photography is always finding inspiration. How do we stay inspired throughout our entire lifetimes, and not give up photography like Henri Cartier-Bresson did?