by Kim Ort | Dec 13, 2012 | Attention, Contemplation, Openness, Photography, Practices
In 2007 I began my first 365 day photo project, Eye on Indy, for graduate work I was doing. My goal was to determine how or if my sense of the place where I lived (Indianapolis, Indiana) changed as a result of photographing it every day. It definitely did change my...
by Kim Ort | Nov 13, 2012 | Contemplation, Openness, Possibilities
Last week I watched the short video below about a couple who creates art out of plastic found on the beach in California. There’s a Texas-sized island of plastic floating in the ocean and over 46,000 pieces of visible plastic per square mile of water. That’s an...
by Kim Ort | Aug 3, 2012 | Openness, Perspective, Photography, Roots of Photography
This is part 5 of The Roots of Photography, based on the book The Photographer’s Eye (paid link) by John Szarkowski. It is about what makes photography unique in the art world. Vantage Point: Expanding Perspectives “The photographer learned that the...
