Negative Feedback #1 is the first irl magazine from George Muncey and the Negative Feedback team. With short photo essays from Damien Maloney, Liam Stock, Laurence Watts, and Tim Palman, and single images from nearly 20 contributors, Negative Feedback is an excellent collection of contemporary photography in the Alec Soth vein, with a heavy dose of disconnection and …
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Unboxing George Muncey’s ‘Missing’
Missing is a fun little zine from George Muncey, of Negative Feedback fame. It’s very simple, really: Muncey started photographing ‘Missing Cat’ flyers one day, then added cats and neighborhoods that matched the flyers, and *poof* a great little project was born. https://youtu.be/2u-vme8Lkq4
There is no power except in Allah
Alhamdulillah, Allah azza wa jall, al Qawiyy, lent me some of His immeasurable, unimaginable strength over the weekend: I transformed one raised bed garden/vegetable patch into two, and moved it to a more prominent location on the other side of the yard/garden. مَا شَاءَ اللَّهُ لَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِاللَّهِ What Allah willed [has occurred]; there …
#Polarwalk
All praise and thanks be to God, I’ve gotten involved with the Dallas Photo Walk group (not to be confused with the Dallas Photo Walk MeetUp Group). After some months interacting over Twitter and being too busy to get in on some walks, I finally had a chance to attend this year’s #Polarwalk at the Dallas …
stop. look. appreciate.
I stumbled upon a completely-disappeared post by Grant Meyer, in which talks about taking some time to stop and appreciate the landscape around him. He talks about the looky-loos that come to photograph and otherwise enjoy the landscape in spring and summer, when crops cover the rolling hills around him, and comments on the stark …
Unboxing David Allen’s ‘The Insolite’
Dave Allen’s ‘The Insolite number 0’ is among my favorite releases of #27zine. It’s a little bit bizarre, willfully obtuse, frustrating, maddening, even, and I love nearly everything about it. https://youtu.be/Se44AiS43V0
Unboxing Ivars Gravlejs ‘Useful advice for photographers’
For two years straight, Blake Andrews listed an Ivars Gravlejs book on his year end lists. It was Early Works in 2015, and the mirth continued in 2016 with Useful advice for photographers. https://youtu.be/ytFJ8A8z-vc
