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How to Evoke the Sublime in Photography (Light, Instinct, and Awe)
What’s poppin, people? It’s Dante. Today I want to talk about the sublime in photography and how we can evoke the sublime in a photograph. When you look at the…
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Why You Must Embrace Failure in Street Photography
What’s poppin, people? It’s Dante. This morning, I’m thinking about failure and photography — and why we have to embrace the process openly. Trust the process. Trust the passage of…
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Why is it so difficult to immigrate to the USA right now?
There isn’t one simple reason it’s so difficult to immigrate to the United States today — it’s a combination of policy decisions, legal limits, political standoffs, administrative backlogs, and changing…
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Photography as a Way of Being — Why Vitality, Movement, and the Body Matter
What’s poppin people? It’s Dante. This morning I’m thinking about photography as a way of being. The somatic experience of photography is what excites me. Just being out in the…
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When you wake up, either write down all of your first ideas right away or just film a freestyle vlog
Freestyle vlogging is pure because you remove control. Maybe writing is easier to control and so by just speaking out loud it becomes the fastest way to express or articulate…
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Photography Has Nothing to Do With Photography (The Somatic Experience)
What’s poppin, people? It’s Dante. This morning I want to talk about the somatic experience of photography. Photography as a way of being. I believe photography has nothing to do…
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Radical Empiricism
People who hate people whom they never met in real life are suckers. For instance- when you hear somebody who passionately hates Trump, Elon, Bezos, Zuckerberg, etc. but they literally…
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Why I Pre-Ordered the Ricoh GRIV Monochrome
Because there’s no such thing as second best. Once you find the best why settle for less?
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Photography as Gratitude: How I Use the Camera to Fall in Love With Life Every Day
What’s poppin, people? It’s Dante. Getting my morning started here in the park, thinking today about photography and how I use photography as a way for me to remain grateful…
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What is the most photographed city in the world?
Paris is widely regarded as the most photographed city in the world. While Paris often takes the crown, these cities are frequently mentioned just behind it: Photographer’s note (relevant to…
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Competition is Good
Competition comes from the Latin competitio, from competere. So at its root, competition literally means “to strive together” or “to seek together.” In Classical Latin, competere did not primarily mean…
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Time to become a student of NYC
If you know this, you are never lost. Go north early. Turn around. Walk south all day. Use north to settle your body and eye. South is where truth shows…
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How to Never Be Bored of Street Photography (Mindset, Curiosity & Flow)
What’s poppin, people? It’s Dante. Today I want to talk about how to never be bored of street photography — because for me, street photography is my superpower. When I…
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I’m Not Interested in Photographs — I’m Interested in Life
What’s poppin, people? It’s Dante. This morning I’ve been thinking about how, as a photographer, I’m actually not interested in photographs — and I know that sounds like a paradox.…





















