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A Podcast About the Creative Side of Photography
Listen to Jeff Curto's Camera Position, a Arts podcast by Jeff Curto. Stream 216 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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How do you consider yourself as a photographer in terms of the work you do? Is it important to tell your viewers how you define your work as...
This episode covers some practical details. I go over the places where you can listen to Camera Position and list a number of online resourc...
"Whatever you do with your photography - don't ever do... "that" Our desire to learn quickly, be noticed in social media and not make any mi...
I can’t think of a time in my life that has been more disconcerting than this last year. The pandemic and the disruption to our daily routin...
During this pandemic time, we have been forced to trade in the allure of travel for the allure of the backyard. As I return to the podcast a...
By slowing down as we look at photographs – ours or someone else’s – we can more easily bring ourselves to the photograph, and by doing that...
Musicians warm up before they make music, but what about visual artists? Do photographers need to warm up before they create photographs? I...
Some thoughts on living an artful life, led off by poet Mary Oliver’s “Instructions on Living a Life” Pay attention Be Astonished Tell about...
Rather than trying to make art your life, work instead on trying to make every day of your life into art. “You just have to live and life wi...
The act of making photographs connects me to the world, to my medium and to myself. When I make photographs, there is always a reward. Play...
Many people think of a wide lens as a way to get farther away from a subject, but I think of a wide lens as a way for us to get closer… a wi...
Podcast listener Tracy wrote: “Photography comes from the depths of who we are. It is not only an exploration of our world, it is also an ex...
What is your story? What are you curious about? What do you care about? How can your photographs express those interests? Making stronger ph...
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes and art is knowing which mistakes to keep. Instead of living in fear of “getting it wrong,”...
“Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.” -Miles Davis One of the most consistent questions I get from stud...
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” – Thomas Merton How can we use the art we make with the camera to gr...
When the subject takes precedence – when you point your camera at things that are the most interesting thing to you – you are on your way to...
How do we go beyond a record of a place and begin to make photographs that convey a real sense of place? The objective is not just to show w...
This episode is a little meditation on the importance of aligning ourselves with the messages around us, using Anne Lamott’s book Bird by Bi...
“But the art in an artwork might not be located precisely where you thought it was. Perhaps it was just as much in the damage and decay as i...
As photographers, we know that there is a fairly wide range of options available to us that change what was to what we show the world in our...
An early influence on my ways of thinking about photography on a deeper level was the great writer John Berger. A poet, novelist, artist scr...
Walt Whitman’s poems in his opus Leaves of Grass mirror the actions of the photographer by beginning with facts and transforming those facts...
“You can observe a lot just by watching.” – Yogi Berra I like to see photographers out in the world and watch them photograph. Observing how...
What drives and motivates photographers to do the work they do? I think that our unifying motivation is curiosity – an unrelenting, never-en...
Do you take time to be creative each day? The creative act is worth taking the time for. It’s worth making the time for. It’s what holds us...
If you see a picture that you think you may have photographed before, take it. Both the subject and the photographer may have changed since...
Among the many things that make photography such an interesting pursuit are its qualities of objectivity combined with subjectivity. In the...
In addition to the phrase “Less is More,” the great architect Mies Van der Rohe also had another saying that relates to making creative work...
Whether it’s a stack of dishes in the sink, moving forward with your photography or climbing up a steep mountain, looking at the path that y...
The difference between a conscious and an unconscious photographer is that the conscious photographer produces better work by thinking more...
In a few past episodes, we’ve looked at alternate ways to get your work in front of an audience, and here’s another one: ‘Zines. This “low-f...
The great architect Mies van der Rohe is famous for the phrase “Less is More” to describe his approach to simplifying his designs. That phil...
From aperture and focal length to shutter speeds and focus points, our modern photographic tools give us a wealth of information about our p...
All of us make photographs that, for some reason, don’t quite work, even though we had high hopes for them. If we embrace those photographs...
When you face something you think you can’t possibly do and then go ahead and do it anyway creativity is the tool you use. Play Podcast: Lin...
A lot of people who are “into” photography seem to think of the “doing” of photography as the end unto itself. While the mechanical act of m...
The American abstract expressionist painter Richard Diebenkorn (1922 –1993) is noted not only for his great work, but also for his thoughts...
There’s an old adage in photography: “inside every 8×10” print, there is a really excellent 5×7” image waiting to be found.” That old saw is...
A listener asked where the logo for Camera Position came from, which gave me an impetus to talk about that photograph and the concept of the...
When we position the camera, we are ultimately positioning the viewer of our photographs. We explore this idea using a 1757 painting by the...
Everyone has ideas, but many people keep those ideas hidden inside. The creative person finds a way to get those ideas out the door in a way...
“Anyone can print black – just put a piece of photo paper under the enlarger, turn the enlarger light on and leave it on. But light values…...
Camera Position is ten years old! The first episode of Camera Position was published February 5, 2006 and it’s been a wonderful decade of le...
“How do I get started in learning black and white photography?” That was the question I got by the boatload after the podcast about B&W phot...
Edges – The edge of the frame, the edge of the subject, the edge of the world, the edge of a moment. Regardless of how we interpret it, the...
Can photography be better learned in black and white? That’s the question that I look at in this episode, as we look at line, shape, tone an...
Photography is about storytelling. Sharing your images and the story that they create is one of the ultimate goals for most photographers. F...
Today’s world of photography is so very confusing. Photographers are confronted with a barrage of advice about how to make good photographs...
The great photographer Ernst Haas said, “”The frame of the camera is the photographer’s discipline. It can contain as much as it withholds,...
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