Photography in Lieu of Poetry

Silhouette of a large seated Buddha in Bangkok, Thailand, set against the darkness of an afternoon thunderstorm

When I was young, I used to write a lot of poetry. Though I still enjoy reading it, I don’t think I’ve written any for years now. And that’s OK. It may be something I pick up again later on, but what I wrote never seemed to amount to much worth reading. It always fell […]

Experimenting with Handheld Multiple Exposures

David R Munson

Today, looking at an experiment done with multiple exposures back in Chicago. Archives are curious things, especially if you have the sort of relationship with them I do. I never stop making photographs, but finishing them is another story. A lot of images get lost to the passage of time, or are forgotten in the […]

On Mitake-san

A small shrine in the mist at the summit of Mt Mitake, Tokyo

A weekend spent on Mitake-san, a sacred mountain in western Tokyo, proves once again that there’s no such thing as bad weather.​