The Benefits of a Long Term Project For Your Photography

B&H Photography Podcast

Jill Waterman

Podcast, Photography, Arts, Visual Arts, Bh, Photo

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2015

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The Benefits of a Long Term Project For Your Photography Guests: Dennis Livesey and John Harris While their approaches are distinct, photographers Dennis Livesey and John Harris both have benefited from taking the long road. As their experience exemplifies, there are many joys and successes to be found in approaching a photo subject with a long-term commitment in mind. Relationships grow, errors are made and improvement is organic as you spend significant time working with one subject. Eventually, the harvests are reaped and the time put into your project is paid back many times over. Citing examples from their work (Dennis’s train photography and John’s documentary work), we distinguish between “series” and “projects” and discuss the benefits, foibles, and eventual outcomes of the long-term project.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the B&H Photography Podcast.
0:04.0	For over 40 years, B&H has been the professional source for photography, video, audio, and more.
0:09.6	For your favorite gear, news, and reviews, visit us at bnh.com or download the B&H app to
0:15.4	your iPhone or Android device.
0:17.6	Now here's your host, Alan Whitez.
0:19.6	Hello, this is Alan Whitez and this is another B&H podcast.
0:24.9	Today's topic is long-term projects, turning photographs into storylines.
0:30.4	I threw that little tag line in.
0:32.1	Joining me today are John Harris and Dennis Livesyn, who in addition to being good friends and
0:37.3	co-workers are quite accomplished as photographers each in their own way.
0:42.4	John has done many, many documentary projects and motion picture projects.
0:48.5	And this morning I was looking at a really wonderful book he did called Garzon about a...
0:52.7	Am I pronouncing that right?
0:53.7	Garzon.
0:54.7	Which is a small town in Uruguay, which you lived in for a while and you also visited many
1:00.2	times over several years' time, a large period of time.
1:04.2	And the photographs are really, really wonderful.
1:06.1	It's all in black and white and I found it very touching.
1:10.0	Dennis, his previous career was a motion picture camera assistant and camera operator.
1:14.9	He's also a train buff and his pictures are really wonderful.
1:19.2	In 2014 he was the winner of the Trains Magazine, annual photo contest, and the Railfan
1:24.6	and Railroad Magazine annual photo contest.
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