Ken Schles: An Interview

Wait!  I suppose I forgot to mention that I have a show opening in exactly 2 weeks!

CITY OF SALT
BY NICHOLAS CALCOTT

May 31st to August 4th, 2012
Opening Reception Thursday, May 31st, 6 – 8 pm

GULF + WESTERN GALLERY
721 Broadway
New York, NY, 10003

More details on my site – http://www.nicholascalcott.com/

Pete Brook, writing for Wired‘s Rawfile, has a really well reported post on contemporary photo collectives.  Take a look here.

Rinko Kawauchi has a tumblog!  Take a look.  The Google translate of the captions also adds something, I think.

Rian Dundon is looking for backers for his book Changsha on Emphas.is (Kickstarter for photojournalists).  Go check it out – it’s great work and deserves all the support it can get.

…We’re not trying to be a photography exhibit, we’re trying to be a communications medium.

Instagram has clearly been in the news lately, especially in how it relates to photography, but it’s worth keeping in mind the above quote, from Kevin Systrom (in Fader), a founder of Instagram, before predicting that everything has now changed…