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What Was Under Your Tree? So what'd ya get for Christmas? Or Hanukkah or the holiday you celebrated? Anything photo-related you're chuffed* about? (I got myself a pool shed. Although not fundamentally photo-related, it's scheduled to be transformed into an exhibition space next Summer, or possibly the Summer of '22 if funds don't allow it this year. I think it counts.) Mike *Speaking English now. The word translates into American as "very pleased." Original contents copyright 2020 by Michael C. Johnston and/or the bylined author. All Rights Reserved. Links in this post may be to our affiliate...

Friday: Mani Sitaraman: Mike Johnston doesn't have a darkroom? Truly, we are living in the end times. Well, we might be, Mani, but me not having a dark room is only because all the rooms in my small Gothic Revival farmhouse (built c. 1888) have windows. As for a darkroom, I don't think my lack of what my friend Nick Hartmann once called "the room-sized photo accessory" is quite as portentous as the rough Beast slouching toward Bethlehem or the birds flying backwards and like that. Looking back, it's been the norm. I seldom had a darkroom in my life. I've used a parade of workspaces, from pr...

Gazing at this made me quite thoughtful. I used to be a freelancer in Washington D.C., and went everywhere in the city in my ratty little Mazda on a tremendous motley of assignments of all sorts, and I've photographed both inside and outside that temple on numerous occasions. It was the location of one of my biggest embarrassments as a photographer (ran out of battery power at the exact wrong moment in a Senate hearing room) and, on a separate occasion, of one of the only times I've been stopped by the police in the process of taking a picture. Of course it has deep meaning to me as an Americ...

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