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New Project: 30 Peppers
Sep 23, 2026 · original
I was getting burned out, more and more distant from photography itself, despite working on photography-related things all week long. When we decided to do a show of my nuclear weapons images at the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History, in Albuquerque, the original conception was to display maybe 40 images. It ended up being 96. During the planning of the show, my intention was to have a lab print the images (something I rarely do) just because it was so much work. But after talking with printers, I found them willing to do exactly what I wanted, very skillfully, but they were reluctant to print the images how they thought the images should be printed. But if my job then is to Photoshop the images to the point where they are ready to print—that time when you develop the look of the print during printing is where lots of the creative work takes place—and to hand over that finish
My Guggenheim Fellowship essay
Sep 18, 2026 · original
At the last possible minute, I decided to apply for a Guggenheim Fellowship to support my American Nukes project. It was a scramble to get it done in time, and I only just made it. The Guggenheim is a prestigious prize (i.e. it gets reported on in the New York Times) and has a significant monetary award, but its main benefit, at least from my point of view, is that it confers a measure of legitimacy on an artist and upon a body of work. As I’m entering the exhibition phase in the development of American Nukes , I think such an endorsement might prove decisive in convincing art museums, which might have little to no familiarity with my topic, to agree to a show. The first thing I did was to write a short essay outlining the importance of the project and to make explicit its connections to the threat posed by AI and by AI-enabled bioterrorism. That would be the foundation upon which I woul
Book Review: Myself: Timed Exposures, by Mike Mandel
Sep 3, 2026 · original
Mike Mandel doesn’t know it yet, but his new book, MYSELF: Timed Exposures , is a Turing Test. On the cover of the book is an image of several people standing in what appears to be an elevator. There’s a blonde woman on the left, blurred nearly to indecipherability, and next to her is another woman, maybe in her 40s, back to the rear wall, only a little blurred, wearing a neck scarf, her hair in a mullet, and looking askew at the camera. On the image’s right, standing against the side wall of the elevator is a third woman, a young woman, straight brown hair, sun bleached at the ends curling upon her shoulders, facing forward but eyes gazing at the ceiling, her zig-zag, no doubt multi-colored blouse under a sensible wool jacket, her arms pressed against her, guarding her purse. Standing in the middle of the frame, full-faced to the camera in this confined space, is some dude with brown ha
Two walkthrough videos of my show, American Nukes
Mar 10, 2026 · original
My American Nukes: Photographs and Texts by Darin Boville show is up until July 5th–you have plenty of time to go! It’s at the Nuclear Museum, in Albuquerque, New Mexico (its formal name is the National Museum of Nuclear History and Science). You couldn’t ask for a better venue for this show. Meanwhile, to give you the flavor of things, here are two video “walkthroughs”, the first shot by me, the second made by my wife, Lori. I hope you can make it. Walkthrough #1 Walkthrough #2 The post Two walkthrough videos of my show, American Nukes first appeared on A Bigger Camera .
American Nukes
Jan 22, 2025 · original
I don’t think I’ve mentioned it here before (which sort of amazes me) but for the past three years I’ve been working on a major photo project on nuclear weapons . Road-tripping across the United States, covering a total of 25,000 miles by car and visiting thirty-five states, I’ve visited all manner of places with nuclear weapons on public display. Sure, I was at a US Air Force missile base, but I also found them at museums, at high schools, at highway rest stops, at city parks, and at Army-Navy surplus stores. Nuclear weapons are on display all over yet are somehow largely invisible to the American public. People worry about the economy, about the environment, about social justice, about politics and democracy, and about foreign wars but (with the exception of the war in Ukraine, and that only happened in the last two years or so) there’s not much discussion about the nukes. In the publi
Book Review: Coming and Going by Jim Goldberg
Dec 6, 2024 · original
Jim Goldberg’s new book, Coming and Going , is a mess. It’s a mess of photographs, a mess of handwritten text, of notes, letters, a mess of collages of photographs often hundreds of images to a page, a mess of people I have no idea who they are, a mess of little details related to the page in ways that only Jim knows. The book is a mess from its front cover, throughout its three hundred and sixty thick pages (that’s what Amazon says, I didn’t count), to its back cover, a mess of family and family and feelings and family and life that goes on and on. It’s quite possible that Jim Goldberg isn’t even a photographer, though the book has more photographs (if you count every tiny collage element as a photograph) than you can doomscroll on Instagram in a day of trying. It’s all photographs, more or less, that is true, but none of them are photographs in the usual artistic sense, in any professi
Book Review: Pier 24’s Photobook of Photobooks
Sep 30, 2024 · original
Oil paintings don’t look that great in books but photographs do. This is part —but only a part—of the reason why photobooks are ubiquitous in the photo art world. No other art form seems so naturally inclined to the printed page, no other art form is so augmented (it is hoped) by being placed in sequence, a turn of the page informing the previous image as it reveals the next. Take a stack of photographs and staple them together and you have a book. Staple a stack of paintings together and you have an ungainly stack of stapled paintings. The book and the photograph yearn for each other, the photograph and the book embrace one another. When the first single-artist photography exhibition opened at the Museum of Modern Art on September 28, 1938, there was a book of photographs to go along with the exhibition, Walker Evans: American Photographs . It was the 34-year-old photographer’s first ph
MacOS’s Partial HDR updates
Sep 18, 2024 · original
( Note: If you are seeing the above image in Safari or in any other non-HDR browser you are seeing a dark, dull, ugly conversion. If you are seeing it in Opera or Chrome on an HDR monitor you are seeing the real thing–a dramatic difference. ) One of the most exciting technological developments in still photography is the (long overdue) advent of HDR. HDR stands for High Dynamic Range and is not to be confused with the earlier HDR. (Yes, we need a new name but we are not getting a new name). With HDR photographs there is a great deal of additional detail in the highlights and the highlights can go much brighter than before. The difference is astonishing, so much so that after working in HDR for a while it’s hard to go back to non-HDR images on a screen. They just look dull. HDR is new and like all new things in technology, the road forward for practitioners is rocky, especially in how to
My Things-to-do List
Sep 17, 2024 · original
When I post about my photo projects it all comes out nice and neat, one project following another, all neatly lined up and each progressing from milestone to milestone as if I have some spreadsheet charting each day’s goals and metrics to measure my progress. (I should, come to think of it, but I don’t.) Of course, in the real world, it’s all a sort of a mess, one project moving forward today, another tomorrow, a change of mind about something fundamental the day after. For my amusement (i.e. to help me figure out what exactly I am working on right now—I’m not sure I really know the full list) I thought I would highlight the projects underway, to give them a little light. They are in no certain order. The Black and White Forest . This is a major project made over the past four years documenting the destruction of the Dome Fire, out in the Mojave Desert, near Baker, California. Currently,
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Sep 7, 2024 · original
Housekeeping note: If you’ve tried to subscribe in the past but never received a confirmation e-mail or that e-mail arrived too late, please try again. There was an error in the settings of the mailing list service I use and they did not clearly notify me that the problem existed. Some people would get e-mails to confirm their subscription, some would not. I think I have fixed it. If you haven’t subscribed, please consider it. On those days when I publish a new post an e-mail notification will be sent out the next morning. That’s it. I don’t collect data or send marketing e-mails of any kind and, of course, I do not share my e-mail list with anyone. In each notification e-mail there is an unsubscribe link which, if you click on it, will take you off of the list–though who would ever want to do that? (And, if all else fails, just drop me a note with your e-mail address via my contact form

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