Jeff Curto's Camera Position

Camera Position 213 : What’s your hashtag?

How do you consider yourself as a photographer in terms of the work you do? Is it important to tell your viewers how you define your work as being a particular kind or ma

Camera Position 212 : Sources & Resources

This episode covers some practical details. I go over the places where you can listen to Camera Position and list a number of online resources for you to explore photogra

Camera Position 211 : What not to do

"Whatever you do with your photography - don't ever do... "that" Our desire to learn quickly, be noticed in social media and not make any mistakes has led to some photog

Camera Postion 210 : The Calming Camera

I can’t think of a time in my life that has been more disconcerting than this last year. The pandemic and the disruption to our daily routine. We don’t work the same, we

Camera Position 209 : Your Own BackYard

During this pandemic time, we have been forced to trade in the allure of travel for the allure of the backyard. As I return to the podcast after a long absence, I explore

Camera position 208 : Bringing Ourselves to the Photograph

By slowing down as we look at photographs – ours or someone else’s – we can more easily bring ourselves to the photograph, and by doing that, learn more about the medium

Camera Position 207 : On Warming Up

Musicians warm up before they make music, but what about visual artists? Do photographers need to warm up before they create photographs? I think yes, and with the help o

Camera Position 206 : The Artful Life

Some thoughts on living an artful life, led off by poet Mary Oliver’s “Instructions on Living a Life” Pay attention Be Astonished Tell about it. Play Podcast:   Links for

Camera Position 205 : Your Life Is Your Art

Rather than trying to make art your life, work instead on trying to make every day of your life into art. “You just have to live and life will give you pictures.” -Henri

Camera Position 204 : Always A Reward

The act of making photographs connects me to the world, to my medium and to myself. When I make photographs, there is always a reward. Play Podcast:   Links for this Epis

Camera Position 203 : Your Eyes and The Lens

Many people think of a wide lens as a way to get farther away from a subject, but I think of a wide lens as a way for us to get closer… a wide lens is really a close-up l

Camera Position 202 : Exploring The World And Ourselves

Podcast listener Tracy wrote: “Photography comes from the depths of who we are. It is not only an exploration of our world, it is also an exploration of ourselves.” This

Camera Position 201 : Digging Deeper

What is your story? What are you curious about? What do you care about? How can your photographs express those interests? Making stronger photographs often depends on dig

Camera Position 200 : Make Interesting Mistakes

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes and art is knowing which mistakes to keep. Instead of living in fear of “getting it wrong,”  a better, more useful strate

Camera Position 199 : Playing Like Yourself

“Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.” -Miles Davis One of the most consistent questions I get from students is this one: “how do I de

Camera Position 198 : Losing and Finding Ourselves

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” – Thomas Merton How can we use the art we make with the camera to grow, learn and provide ourselve

Camera Position 197 : Let the Subject Take Precedence

When the subject takes precedence – when you point your camera at things that are the most interesting thing to you – you are on your way to developing a personal style –

Camera Position 196 : A Sense of Place

How do we go beyond a record of a place and begin to make photographs that convey a real sense of place? The objective is not just to show  what your destination looks li

Camera Position 195 : The River of a Story

This episode is a little meditation on the importance of aligning ourselves with the messages around us, using Anne Lamott’s book Bird by Bird as inspiration. “The Gulf S

Camera Position 194 : Our Wish To Persist

“But the art in an artwork might not be located precisely where you thought it was. Perhaps it was just as much in the damage and decay as it was in the intact original.