Lessons from Dante.

I have been enjoying exploring the work by ‘photographer’ Dante Sisofo. He works in mainly hi-key (high contrast) grainy, black and white street photography. Go check out Dante Sisofos work here. He describes his photographic workflow as frictionless. That is, he publishes with minimal no editing preferring to have all the aesthetics (ie high contrast, monochrome, jpeg, film grain etc) done in camera. Not a fan of spending time on editing software, he downloads his photos directly onto his iPad (into the photos app) selects the ones he wants to share, and then publishes them to his blog. Fast. Frictionless. He talks about his process here. Despite the lack of post production on his work, his photos are brilliant. Releasing himself from the burden of curation and perfection, he can concentrate on subject and composition and narrative. I was walking through a nature path, looking at leaves. I plucked a few, held them in my hand, and made a photograph. Now when I look back at those…