I wasn’t going to watch the hearings. That’s until I heard so many pundits on the right pounding the point home to their viewers and listeners not watch the January 6th Committee Hearings. According to them, there was nothing to…
Category: Chuck Jines Podcast
Trump knows…
Trump knows… Trump has access to the Grand Jury testimony. He knows who will testify in open court against him and what they will say. He MUST keep this case out of court. He knows that both his own former…
Social documentary photography: When photo “subjects” become your friends
All photography is documentary. But, not all documentary is social… There is a big difference between cutting out vacation photos and gluing them into a scrapbook/journal, and serious social documentary photography. Both have their place, but they are not the…
A healthy photographic diet
Are you feeling well, photographically? Or, are you feeling a bit queezy? Are you sharing your photos on Facebook groups and Instagram? How much time do you spend looking at photo books? Has this affected your photography? ( photo by…
Photography as Political Propaganda: From Robert Frank to Matt Black
While photographs may not lie, people sure do! Here are some of my thoughts about Matt Black’s photo project, Unamerican Dream.
Who made the black kids angry? KC parade shooting suspects are BLACK!
Why is it that some mass-shooting suspects are instantly identified, such as Kyle Rittenhouse, while others, such as the Kansas City Parade shooting suspects, are hidden away behind closed doors? The idea that our major cultural crisis is white-on-black crime…
Street photography is NOT documentary photography!
Many people seem to be confused as to the differences between the popular activity of street photography and the more serious work of documentary photography. Many street photographers like the hitch street photography to the documentary wagon.
“Journalism” and “News Media”
“Journalism” and “news media” are NOT the same things… The first is concerned with the accurate reporting of issues and events. The second is concerned with promoting a political agenda and profit for shareholders… I have no clue as to…