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Raw Take is a place where people who think and care about photography talk. Deb Pang Davis and Mike Davis produce Raw Take from Portland, Oregon. We encourage you to submit ideas, questions, or thoughts that engage and encourage conversation. Let us know if you’d like to learn more about a particular photographer, picture editor, publication or [...]
From the Raw Take Editors – 11:08 am, What is Raw Take?
Deb and I had the good fortune to cross paths with James because of the Blue Planet Run book and Redux Pictures. His images of China’s desertification caught our eye for the book (They didn’t make the final edit). But more than the subject of the photographs, it was the tone, the feeling and [...]
May 19, 2008 – 9:06 pm, James Whitlow Delano
I sit in a 500-year-old patio where Pissarro prepared to conquer a chunk of South America. Classical music plays from speakers. Morning coffee and jugo de naranja just arrived. Palms jiggle in the morning breeze like a hula skirt. This is good. I’m waiting for Randy Olson or Melissa Farlow, Loup Langton or Lelen Robert or Maggie [...]
April 21, 2008 – 10:23 pm, Speaking Spanish: SomosFoto
Tim Clayton is British but has lived in Sydney, Australia for many years. Is that a contradiction, or what? Contradiction may be in Tim’s nature. He was one of the first and few ever to create an independent sports photography staff at the Sydney Morning Herald. He is both wry and serious at the same [...]
March 30, 2008 – 5:16 pm, Tim Clayton,
Sydney Morning Herald
Vince is one of the funniest guys you’ll ever meet. And one of the most serious. That balance of qualities has played out in his pictures since his days at the Pittsburgh Press. Since the Press’ demise in 1992, Vince has completed 10-ish stories for National Geographic, no small feat. He and his wife, Callie [...]
March 17, 2008 – 2:02 pm, Vincent J. Musi