Inspiration

I love a good book – or a nice TED Talk. Here’s where I share that kind of thing with you.
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Podcast! Street Shots Episode 168: Enchantment.

Check out Gino in conversation with his old buddy Antonio M. Rosario, on Street Shots Podcast episode #168...

Thank you, Jerry N. Uelsmann, June 11, 1934 – April 6, 2022

RIP Jerry N. Uelsmann, June 11, 1934 - April 6, 2022

“What If?” Jean Miele gave a Maine Media Workshops Alumni Talk?

I'm honored to be included in this series of online lectures Maine Media began in 2020...

Jean Miele – SVA / NY Photo Salon Artist’s Talk in New York City – June 16, 2020

NY Photo Salon & SVA MPS Digital Photography online artist's talk, featuring photographer Jean Miele…

"In fact, every photograph is a fake from start to finish, a purely impersonal, unmanipulated photograph being practically impossible." - Edward Steichen

Jean Miele PROJECTIONS Artist’s Talk in New York City – June 18, 2019

Free PROJECTIONS Artist's Talk in NYC at PhotoShelter 6/18/19 featuring Jean Miele, Karen Zusman, and Richard Sandler...

Poetry. Collage. Gunpowder. Dipping a toe in the waters of collaboration.

Poetry. Collage. Gunpowder. Time-travel. They're finding their way into the pictures I've been making lately...

"The most important things of our lives are philosophical. Are unseen, rather. My photographs are about questions."

"A balance must be established between these two worlds: the one inside us and the one outside us..."

Eddie Wexler. Chichen Itza, Mexico. Diana.

“What If” Jean Miele Juried the Krappy Kamera Show?

Read about KK 2014, see all 46 winning entries & pictures from the opening reception at Soho Photo. With an essay by Jean Miele.

I’m judging this year’s Krappy Kamera® Competition :)

A "bad" camera in the right hands will always make better pictures than an $$ camera in the wrong hands.

"I'm not interested in photography. I'm interested in geometry and emotion." - Henri Cartier-Bresson

"Your focus of attention, creates your whole life.."

“The word we use in our culture when referring to the act of photographing is taken. Photographs are taken. Viewers then take them for the truth.” - Jerry N. Uelsmann

"Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic." - Edward Weston

The Centre Cannot Hold

My friend David Gulden’s book The Centre Cannot Hold has some of the most beautiful black-and-white photographs of Africa – ever. Make no mistake, though. These aren’t “safari” photos. And the focus of this book isn’t David’s photography (although it’s amazing), nor is it the animals (although his pictures

Faking It - MET Metropolitan Museum of Art - Exhibition Catalog

Faking It – MET Exhibition Catalog

Curator Mia Fineman's groundbreaking "Faking It" exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York does nothing less than rewrite the history of photography.

Up in the Old Hotel

"I've made quite a study of fish cooks," Mr. Flood says, "and I've decided that old Italians are the best. Then comes old colored men, then old mean Yankees, and then old drunk Irishmen. They have to be old; it takes almost a lifetime to learn how to do a thing simply."

"I eagerly await new concepts and processes. I believe the electronic image will be the next major advance. Such systems will have their own inherent and inescapable structural characteristics, and the artist and functional practitioner will again strive to comprehend and control them." — Ansel Adams, The Negative (1981, xiii)