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The world is a playground, but school turned it into a prison and made you a prisoner. You’ve had the key to the playground all along. You only have to remember that you’re a child of God to get back there.
You are more than a cog in a machine. You are divine. Remember with me.
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Why I Switched to Black & White Photography (After 7 Years in Color)
What’s poppin, people? It’s Dante. Currently going for a hike here in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. Welcome to the woods. The pavilion is closed today, so no Treehouse symposium, but maybe…
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Plotinus – The Enneads
A Complete Study Summary for Dante Sisofo The Enneads is one of the most powerful spiritual–philosophical texts ever written, a mountain peak of late-antique thought. Compiled by Plotinus’s student Porphyry,…
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Why the Goal Is the Process: Aristotle, Eudaimonia & the Autotelic Life in Photography
What’s poppin’, people? It’s Dante.Going for a walk here in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. Welcome to the woods. Today I’m thinking about goals — and what it truly means to aim…
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Why I Switched to Black & White Photography
What’s poppin’, people? It’s Dante. This morning I’m thinking about why I switched to black and white photography—and why it feels like the most natural transformation of my creative life.…
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Solitude, Discipline, and Photography: How to Unleash Your Creative Genius
What’s poppin’, people? It’s Dante.Starting my morning here in the Centennial Arboretum — my little Garden of Eden. As I walk my eternal loop, today’s thought is simple: We live…
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Why You Need Leisure to Unlock Your Creativity
What’s poppin’, people? It’s Dante, laying under a tree here in the park, embracing the glory of the sun, gazing out toward a sculpture of Goethe, watching the clouds drift,…
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How to Overcome Burnout in Street Photography (And Fall in Love with Life Again)
What’s poppin’, people? It’s Dante.Going for a nice morning hike here in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. Welcome to the woods. Today I’m thinking about burnout in photography — and how to…
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In the age of the last men, it’s time to give birth to the Uber man
True creative genius is born in solitude and discipline. If you want to rise above the “last men” — the complacent, the passive, the addicted, the comfortable — you must…
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Treat Photography as an Act of Gratitude
What’s poppin, people? It’s Dante. This morning’s thought is simple — treat photography as an act of gratitude for the day. When you go out into the world, embrace the…
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How Daido Moriyama Changed the Way I See — The Philosophy of the Snapshot
“Photography is drawing with light. Return to the essence: light and shadow.” What’s poppin’, people? It’s Dante. This morning we’re flipping through some of my favorite Daido Moriyama books—Record 1,…
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How to Find Pure Inspiration in Photography — Return to Your Inner Child
What’s poppin’, people? It’s Dante.Welcome to the Centennial Arboretum. The leaves are changing, the air feels crisp, and it’s a beautiful autumn day here in Philadelphia. Today’s thought is about…
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Why I Transitioned from Color to Black-and-White
It’s easy to position your body in relation to a moment, the background, and have the intuition to click the shutter at the decisive moment. Simply put, photography became easy…
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🎨 Tap Into Your Inner Child to Unlock Creative Inspiration
What’s poppin’, people? It’s Dante.Today I’ve been thinking about how we can use our inner child to cultivate inspiration in our art. We often look outward for inspiration — a…
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How to Fill the Frame in Street Photography
Today we’re diving deep into one of the most important aspects of street photography — filling the frame. I’ll be breaking down several of my own photographs from Philadelphia, Jericho,…
