it’s become all the rage for property owners to confiscate cameras, force innocent passersby to erase photos, and generally ban photography in places that have always been open to all.

What is the price we are ready to pay to get the picture? When do we say stop, enough, it is not worth it? When the danger and the price are too high no matter what the picture could be?

After toiling away for many years as part of the Minnesota Photo Mafia (well, “toiling” in Italy as well as wintry Minnesota…), JoAnn Verburg currently has a retrospective show at the Museum of Modern Art

The book brings together 38 images in a super large format book that will not fit on any bookshelf. With a trim size of 16 by 20 inches, the images are huge and necessarily so.

My all-time must-read essay for students is Robert Adams’ ‘Making Art New’ from Beauty in Photography. I’m also crazy about David Hurn and Bill Jay’s conversation, ‘Selecting A Subject’ from On Being a Photographer

“I find the discipline of slow, expensive photography to be perversely liberating: each shot has to count, and each shot requires thought and commitment.”

“Photographing digitally doesn’t suit how I see or think. So I stopped using digital cameras a few years ago, because they made me stupid. This is a very different way of working”, Katie Cooke explains.