I want to talk a little bit about project or series-based photography as opposed to single-image

photography. And this is an interesting conversation to open up, I think, because if you look at a lot of the points of

distribution for photography now and a lot of what we have,

I think this is the way a lot of, especially younger photographers tend to lean towards.

If you consider with social media, you have Instagram and Facebook and images don't necessarily need to relate to one another because they're really not set up to relate to one another.

Things seem to be in the moment and they encourage likes or shares or followers or things of that nature.

Even media outlets now when they use still photography, I think tend to rely more on the

single image to go with a story more than multiple images or trying to tell a story through images and a lot of that has to do with budgets that media have now for photography and the way photographers are used in that realm.

And I think this is really interesting to look at.

There's still plenty of people who work in project-based works,

particularly in the fine art world.

And if you consider somebody like Michael Kenna, for instance,

who was a fabulous photographer from the UK, and pretty much all of his work is series-based.

And he will take projects, usually they're location-based, and for instance a couple years ago he did a major project in Japan

and it's a series of beautiful images of very high-contrast landscapes that embrace

this wonderful of exhibitions and or books and the Japan project is very different than the projects

he's done in France more recently and I think that's a really interesting way to look at

your own work or in his case look at his work and to see it work in

larger format series like that. Another photographer who's modern who is very

project-based is Keith Carter. He does projects that tend to be series in nature and they

culminate in exhibitions and books and even I think if you take photographers

from the 1950s and 1960s somebody. Eugene Smith, who was a media photographer and he worked

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