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Flux Archive 019 — Photograph Your Life
What’s poppin’, people? It’s Dante. Welcome to Flux Archive Session Number 19, where we look at some of the photographs that I’ve made along my black-and-white photography journey. Here we have some photographs made from the months of June to August of 2024. We’re looking at photographs I made throughout the summer, working in the park here.
READ · 7 MIN →Photography Lets You See Beyond Reality
Use photography as a way for you to peer beyond the veil of reality. So today’s thought is about going beyond—transcending the world through the medium. I find that by using light in my photography, I can achieve this goal of going beyond the mundane nature of life. Through wielding light and shooting specifically in high-contrast black and white, I can…
READ · 5 MIN →Flux Archive 018 — Your Instinct Creates Your Style
What’s poppin’, people? It’s Dante. Welcome to Flux Archive Session Number 18, where we look at some of the photographs that I made along my black-and-white photography journey. Today we’re looking at photographs I made from April to June of 2024. We’re going to go through the work and discuss some thoughts about photography.
READ · 8 MIN →Why Detachment Will Transform Your Street Photography
What’s poppin’, people? It’s Dante, currently walking the streets of Philadelphia with the Ricoh GR IV Monochrome. Today I’m just thinking about radical detachment from the outcome of your photography and why this will transform your practice. I’ve been photographing with high-contrast black and white on the Ricoh for nearly four years now, and ever since adopting this practice, I’ve…
READ · 6 MIN →Why I Share Everything I Learn on YouTube
Today I wanted to share my personal philosophy around sharing things on YouTube. I just want to talk about my YouTube workflow, why I create, and why I do things the way that I do them. Right now I'm filming with this old Handycam. I'm basically using photography, video, and making things as a way to augment my reality.
READ · 4 MIN →How I Use AI to Automate My Street Photography Workflow
Yo, what’s poppin’, people? Dante. Today, I want to share with you some thoughts about automation and street photography and how we can use AI to enhance our workflows. Here we have a study guide that I developed for a book titled First, Abandon the World of Certainty, which contains contributions from Kōji Taki, Takuma Nakahira, Daidō Moriyama, Takahiko Okada, Mike…
READ · 13 MIN →Flux Archive 017 — Light and Gesture: The Essence of Photography
What’s poppin’, people? It’s Dante. Welcome to Flux Archive Session Number 17, where we look at some of the photographs I made along my black-and-white photography journey. Here we’re looking at photographs made from March to April of 2024. Without further ado, let’s jump right into the work.
READ · 9 MIN →Photography Is an Act of Discovery: Follow the Light
What’s poppin’, people? It’s Dante. Currently walking around this random alleyway here in Old City Philadelphia, and today I just wanted to share some thoughts about light and photography and how it’s completely transformed the way that I engage with life and my practice.
READ · 5 MIN →Flux Archive 016 — The Infinite Possibilities of Photography
What’s poppin’, people? It’s Dante. Welcome to Flux Archive Session Number 16, where we look at some of the photographs that I’ve made along my black-and-white photography journey. Today we’re looking at photographs made from January 2024 to February 2024. We’re looking at around two months of photography throughout this particular zine.
READ · 9 MIN →If you have a life mission, consider yourself blessed
Nothing will stop me or break my insatiable love for life!
