Picking Favorites

I like looking at work that it totally different from mine-- photographers who are masters at layering and taking chances and making puzzling and complicated images. Lately, I've loved the work of Larry Towell, and specifically his book "The World From My Front Porch," where he writes about his relationship to landscape and the importance of photographs that "paraphrase" the non-news event. That pretty much sums up working for a small paper in Indiana-- lots of non-news events that yield wonderful situations. I also love Danny Wilcox Frazier's work, specifically his Iowa images, because they're personal and emotive and sometimes kind of elegantly messy, which I wish I could be: