PERSPECTIV

TRUE SIGHT: Shashin, Vipassana, and the Work of Seeing

Maybe your camera isn't the problem.

Nov 20 • 

Bil Brown

September 2025

Desire, Danger, and How to Shoot Fashion: The Ghost of Helmut Newton, Part 1

I move to Hollywood and the first day, Helmut Newton says "Hello"

Sep 5 • 

Bil Brown

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Why How to Shoot Matters

I didn't really think about it until I thought about it. Then I Did Something About it.

Sep 3 • 

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It’s Over, So Let’s Try This Again. But This Time Good: Street Photography In A Post-Street World.

Originally published at street-photography.net included in it's entirety

Sep 1 • 

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August 2025

We Don't Take the Pictures, The Pictures Take Us: Shock, Awe vs Pseudo-Ethics Against Street and Documentary Photography

In Response to Andy Day, FStoppers, on Bruce Gilden and Workshops

Aug 27 • 

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No Photograph Is Innocent.

Why Street Photography Doesn't Exist (anymore) in 2025

Aug 6 • 

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Photography is the Reflection of You Through the Mirror of Other People

My Mylar Portraits, Cohen’s Chamber, and the Elusive Art of Self

Aug 5 • 

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July 2025

The (Photographic) Seer's Vow

We aren't just snapping away, we are invoking. What is beyond us.

Jul 29 • 

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Image in Crisis Part 3: THE IMAGE AS WOUND

Barthes, Sontag, and some real photographers who speak of the Return of Mourning in a Post-Real World

Jul 24 • 

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FINAL CODA: Against Visual Language — Toward the Illegible Image

I did a series on The Image In Crisis. The last one comes out tomorrow. I wrote this after.

Jul 23 • 

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The Image in Crisis Part 2: PHOTOGRAPHY AS PRESENCE

Let the Pictures Take You: Charles Harbutt, Aliveness, and the Collision Between World, Body, and Machine

Jul 22 • 

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NO KINGS/Pussy Riot

Read the Substack

Jul 21 • 

Bil Brown

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