April 2026

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What’s poppin’, people? It’s Dante. Thinking today about the art of being a tourist. Got the camera on my neck, little compact point-and-shoot, sun hat—about to walk by the beach.…

So today’s thought is to make photographs that bring you pure joy. When I look back at the photographs I make, there’s an emotional quality that I resonate with, subjectively.…

Good—then don’t “join” a photographic culture. Not a brand. Not a trend.A way of seeing that people step into. It’s imitation disguised as participation. You already feel that. That’s why you’re rejecting…

Make photos that bring you pure joy. Forget the old school idea that you need to be “objectively detached” from your photographs. Instead, become so emotionally and subjectively attached to…

For a long time, I felt like most photography workshops were missing something. People would walk around, take photos, and go home with nothing finished. No sequence.No body of work.No…

What’s poppin’, people? It’s Dante. Today I’m thinking about play, presence, and why you should stop taking photography so seriously. When I photograph, I’m merely using the camera as a…

What’s poppin’, people? It’s Dante. Today I want to share with you some thoughts about abstraction in photography—and why this is the ultimate solution for finding something out there in…

Walk. Photograph. Build your own archive.

This is not about taking better photos. For the next 7 days, you will document your life as it is. No pressure.No performance.Just observation. This becomes your first visual diary.…

What’s poppin’, people? It’s Dante. Today I want to share with you a story about how I almost quit photography… but now I treat photography as a way of being.…

What’s poppin’, people? It’s Dante. Check out the ducks. Today I’m thinking about the mundane… and how we really, in this modern world, need to slow down and appreciate the…

“Flux” is one of those words that looks simple but runs deep, especially given how you’re using it. At its core, flux means continuous change—a state of constant movement, flow,…

Use photography to peer behind the veil of the ordinary

The word “evolution” carries its meaning right in its roots—it wasn’t originally about biology at all. In ancient and medieval contexts, evolution referred to something like: This is important: the idea wasn’t change into something…

What’s poppin’, people? It’s Dante. Today I want to talk about the identity shift as a photographer and what that means. So essentially, in the past, I separated my identity…

What’s poppin’, people? It’s Dante. This morning I want to discuss snapshot photography and why this has completely transformed my practice. I’ve been practicing photography for over a decade now,…