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Light Table: How Editorial and Documentary Pictures Get Made
A working-notes site about commissioning, shooting, captioning, consenting to, and licensing editorial, advertising, and documentary photography.
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Light Table turns the practical machinery of photography into nine substantive notes, from building a seven-frame photo essay to photographing a mobile-home-park community without trespassing. Its strongest thread is ethical and contractual: consent, releases, usage, captions, and the trust that can follow a picture for the rest of its life.
A working-notes site about commissioning, shooting, captioning, consenting to, and licensing editorial, advertising, and documentary photography.
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