Being There

On August 26th, 2008 I pub­lished this blog’s first post. Three years later to the day, Being There comes to an end. The deci­sion to end Being There was a long time com­ing. The there part of title stopped fit­ting: I’m here, I’ve arrived. There’s been a lot of life in the last three years; […]

2010 – 2011 Inter­na­tional Cen­ter of Pho­to­graphy Full-Time Stu­dent exhibition.

June 25 – August 14, 2011

That’s me, tak­ing a break from dri­ving a car­load of Euro­peans from Char­lottesville, VA back to New York City. Check this space for pretty ladies in about 3 days (when I get my film developed).

Only two more months left of school and final projects are start­ing to be wound down and put into edit­ing mode. I have edit­ing class on Mon­day nights. The class is so excit­ing that Giu­lia and I usu­ally stay after­wards to keep edit­ing our work. Gotta use that mojo while its flowing.

The more delib­er­ate you can be about that think­ing the bet­ter. Hav­ing a sys­tem helps. Focus­ing on the process can take away the psy­chic ten­sion inher­ent to cre­at­ing. And when you do feel that appre­hen­sion, its prob­a­bly a good sign. A sign that you’re on the right track. Basi­cally, in order to cre­ate you have to do your home­work and then trust your gut.

The pho­to­graphic goal flows from the nature of the medium. Pho­tog­ra­phy is the only medium that orig­i­nates in and is caused by the real, his­tor­i­cal, time-space event of a col­li­sion between a man [or woman], a cam­era and real­ity. But the pho­to­graph itself occu­pies its own time and space and is a sep­a­rate thing from that real-time collusion.

Last night, I took a call from a woman in Cal­i­for­nia who had been accepted to the Inter­na­tional Cen­ter of Pho­tog­ra­phy. She was try­ing to decide whether she should go for it. She asked me, “is it worth it?” I was in her posi­tion exactly one year ago to the day. It was April 12th, 2010, […]

I love New York: Girl Walk // All Day from jacob krup­nick on Vimeo.

How do you see in images? Here’s the process I use to get myself into the head­space of see­ing like a pho­tog­ra­pher. How to take pic­tures, in a dozen easy steps.

Your port­fo­lio doesn’t mat­ter. What does mat­ter is mak­ing pic­tures. Like James Starks when he says, “I play this game for the fun of it,” release your­self from the lit­tle coach, teacher, or man­ager in the back of your mind that tells you to worry. There are enough anal peo­ple in the world already.