Light Table: How Editorial and Documentary Pictures Get Made

Why it surfaced

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.