The Soul of the Camera (w/David duChemin)

I first interviewed photographer and author, David duChemin in 2013 as one of a series of conversations I hosted for Faded & Blurred, a website and photo community that I helped build while I was teaching Photoshop at a photography school in Southern California. What followed over the next decade-plus was something I couldn’t have scripted — a friendship, a creative partnership, and more conversations than either of us can probably count. This conversation is included in the archive as part of that record, with David’s permission.From soulofthecamera.com:“In The Soul of the Camera: The Photographer’s Place in Picture-Making, David explores what it means to make better photographs by becoming better photographers. Illustrated with a beautiful collection of black-and-white photographs, the book’s essays speak to topics such as craft, mastery, vision, audience, discipline, story, and authenticity. There's discussion of creative process, and patience, and the role of editing and post-production. The Soul of the Camera is a personal and deeply practical book that quietly yet forcefully challenges the idea that our cameras, lenses, and settings are anything more than dumb and mute tools. It is the photographer, not the camera, that can and must learn to make better photographs―photographs that convey our vision; that connect with others; that, at their core, contain our humanity. If the camera, and our photographs, are to have soul, it's we who must put it there.”LINKShttps://www.soulofthecamera.comCONNECT WITH DAVIDWebsite: davidduchemin.comInstagram: @davidducheminCONNECT WITH MEWebsite: https://jefferysaddoris.comInstagram: @jefferysaddorisYouTube: @jefferysaddoris