ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Random Observations on Art, Photography, and the Creative Process. These talks focus on the creative process in fine art photography. LensWork editor Brooks Jensen side-steps techno-talk and artspeak to offer a stimulating mix of ideas, experience, and observations from his 50 years as a fine art photographer, writer, and publisher. Topics include a wide range of subjects from finding subject matter to presenting your work, and building an audience.
Included in this RSS Feed are the LensWork Podcasts — posted weekly, typically 10-20 minutes exploring a topic a bit more deeply — and our almost daily Here's a thought… audios (extracted from the videos.) Here's a thought… are snippets, fragments, morsels, and tidbits from Brooks' fertile (and sometimes swiss-cheesy) brain. Usually just a minute or two. Always about photography and the art life.
Brooks Jensen is the publisher of LensWork, one of the world's most respected and award-winning photography publications, known for its museum-book quality printing and luxurious design. LensWork has subscribers in over 73 countries. He is the author of 13 books on photography and the creative life -- the latest books are The Best of the LensWork Interviews (2016), Photography, Art, and Media (2016), and the four annual volumes of Seeing in SIXES (2016-2019).
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1633 episodes
since Sept. 12, 2020
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LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Here's a Thought… #2783 with Brooks Jensen
Removing the Unwanted
After all these years in photography, I still believe the best advice I ever received was "remove the unnecessary." I've often joked that Ansel Adams' most useful fool was a12-gauge shotgun to remove unwanted tree branches from th…
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PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Here's a Thought… #2782 with Brooks Jensen
Of Course Your Family Loves Your Photography
The first people to see our latest work is probably our spouse, our family, our loved ones. Their encouragement is lovely, but is it trustworthy? I think what most of us want is an honest opinion and useful …
Here's a Thought… #2781 with Brooks Jensen
YouTube Shortcuts
Whatever happened to learning by doing, learning by trial and error, learning by falling flat on our face? Photographers no longer need to experiment. Whatever you might want to do to make an image, you can learn step-by-step with a Y…
Here's a Thought… #2780 with Brooks Jensen
Go Ahead, Be Insecure
If you are fully confident and unquestionably sure of your work, you are probable not taking enough chances. Staying inside your comfort zone does not mean the work is inferior, but it does mean you are not exploring the new. Inse…
Episode #1527 from our long-running, weekly podcast On Photography and the Creative Process
My Philosophy of Art in a Nutshell
Each of us (both as art-maker and as art-lover) makes decisions about our relationship with art -- ours and other's. What is the purpose of our art? What art do we choo…
Here's a Thought… #2779 with Brooks Jensen
Looking for Solutions, Not Gear
The other day I was talking about the use of Polaroids in the field and more recently LCD screens to overcome my limitations in seeing two-dimensionally. A podcast listener, Howard Lester, emailed an alternative. His sug…
Here's a Thought… #2778 with Brooks Jensen
Photographs Themselves Are Symbols
Yesterday I was talking about how we think and feel in symbols. Of course the important topic I left out was the fact that photographs themselves are symbols. When we are waiting in the doctor's office and see that be…
Here's a Thought… #2777 with Brooks Jensen
Everything Is Symbolic
One of the things that separates humans from animals is that we think in terms of symbols, culturally defined associations, and abstracts. There is a school of thought from mid-20th century photography that emphasizes photographi…
Here's a Thought… #2776 with Brooks Jensen
Cluster Mode Photography
I interviewed David Hurn (MAGNUM) when we published him in LensWork and was fascinated by his description of Magnum photography. I'll abbreviate his technique: 95% of being out photographing is not photographing. The way he des…
Here's a Thought… #2775 with Brooks Jensen
A Timed Event
At the suggestion of a friend years ago, I experimented with photography as a timed event. I was driving through Eastern Oregon and the challenge was to stop every hour on the hour without fail. Wherever I was, I had to get out of the car…
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