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LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process

Brooks Jensen
LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process
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    HT2627 - How the Art Is Built

    19/05/2026 | 2 min
    HT2627 - How the Art Is Built

    Painters usually start with a sketch, a visual working-out of an idea, a practice run, an experiment. They build from the sketch to the finished painting, step by step. The same can be said of poetry, theater, cinema, novel writing, most every medium I can think of. Photographs start with a fully realized image which the photographer then improves by modifying or eliminating things the camera sees in entirety. I'm fascinated by this difference in approach. I also think this is the main reason I'm resistant to AI photography.



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    HT2626 - Hyperized Photography

    18/05/2026 | 2 min
    HT2626 - Hyperized Photography

    For each of us, there are certain kinds of photography that we love and enjoy and even produce, but other kinds of photography that is a bit of a challenge. I feel guilty about certain kinds of photography that I know I should enjoy but I struggle to appreciate. Exploring my own prejudices a bit, I've concluded that the kind of photography that tends to turn me off is what I would call hyperized photography. Psychedelic colors, excessively pushed infrared, vibrance cranked up to 11, room-sized prints, all leave me rushing for the exit. I know that says nothing about photography, but it must say something about me.

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    LW1506 - The Content

    18/05/2026 | 12 min
    LW1506 - The Content

    Every medium has a form — movements in a symphony, chapters in a novel, image and caption in photography. These forms have to do with structure, but what about content? In storytelling, there is a basic formula that is universally followed with few variations. The three steps in novel writing are: Characters, Conflict, Resolution. Every story is based on these three basics. Turning our attention to photography, what is the equivalence of a basic formula in our medium?



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    HT2625 - Instant Emotional Bond

    17/05/2026 | 2 min
    HT2625 - Instant Emotional Bond

    I once read that the goal of a framed photograph was to create an instant emotional bond with the viewer. I think there is some truth to this but then I remember all the images that I disliked or felt neutral about at first viewing which only later, upon reflection, became favorites and even influential pictures. I've always struggled with this idea of instant emotional bond because it seems to reduce to a connection based on already held assumptions and opinions. That leaves photography with nothing new to bring to us.



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    HT2624 - A Special Experience

    16/05/2026 | 2 min
    HT2624 - A Special Experience

    Some of you have been around long enough to remember when seeing a photograph could be a truly special experience. A highlight of my photographic life was seeing an exhibition of Paul Strand originals at The Art Institute of Chicago in 1991. I was on cloud nine for a week. Perhaps it was such a special occasion because it was so rare. Here, deep in the age of image bombardment, I miss those moments when I could be overwhelmed by the work of a master photographer during a transcendent experience.



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Random Observations on Art, Photography, and the Creative Process. These talks focus on the creative process in fine art photography. LensWork editor Brooks Jensen side-steps techno-talk and artspeak to offer a stimulating mix of ideas, experience, and observations from his 50 years as a fine art photographer, writer, and publisher. Topics include a wide range of subjects from finding subject matter to presenting your work, and building an audience. Included in this RSS Feed are the LensWork Podcasts — posted weekly, typically 10-20 minutes exploring a topic a bit more deeply — and our almost daily Here's a thought… audios (extracted from the videos.) Here's a thought… are snippets, fragments, morsels, and tidbits from Brooks' fertile (and sometimes swiss-cheesy) brain. Usually just a minute or two. Always about photography and the art life. Brooks Jensen is the publisher of LensWork, one of the world's most respected and award-winning photography publications, known for its museum-book quality printing and luxurious design. LensWork has subscribers in over 73 countries. He is the author of 13 books on photography and the creative life -- the latest books are The Best of the LensWork Interviews (2016), Photography, Art, and Media (2016), and the four annual volumes of Seeing in SIXES (2016-2019).
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