It's been far too quiet on this blog. I really need to make it more of a priority, and get back to posting more regularly. It's easy for me to blame stress from work (the electronics industry is insane at the moment), or the pandemic, or adjusting to two kids, but really, they're all just excuses, and at the end of the day, I have the time to keep a blog. I just need to use my time more wisely.
In addition to the Departures Blog, I keep a blog titled 52 Photographers. I started that blog back before and during my year of grad school as a way to help me find new photographers beyond those I had learned about and come to know and was getting to know as part of my graduate studies. I had only intended to let it run for a year. With a name like 52 Photographers, and featuring a new photographer each week, you could argue that I locked myself into that time frame. But years went by and I felt like I needed to feed that side of my creative life once again, and so it ran in 2018, after which I left it alone again.
Fast forward to December of last year, and the thought crept into my mind a couple of times, thinking it would be good to do something for the 2021 calendar year, but I never acted on it, and January came and went, and I figured I'd leave the blog alone for another while. But the thought to resume the blog hasn't really left me alone.
About a week ago, I decided it's time to just do it. Every time the thought entered my mind, I thought maybe I'd wait to do it in 2022, and run another volume of the blog during a calendar year, but 2022 is still a long ways off, and I don't want to wait that long. There's work I'm interested in NOW, and I want to share it sooner than later. So beginning June 5, Volume III of 52 Photographers begins! I'm excited to start it up again, and I have a lot of excellent photographers coming up, so stay tuned!
52 Photographers is Back!
I began the 52 Photographers Blog circa 2007-2008 as a way to expand my photographic/artistic vocabulary and get to know many more photographers than I already knew and share the work of artists that I enjoyed looking at and who were currently influencing my own work.
I don't think—actually I'm pretty sure—I actually ever made 52 posts, as I got super busy with other things. Posts became spaced out, and clustered, and then it finally died off, and I let the domain expire.
Then in 2016, I thought of resurrecting the idea, but instead, decided to just write blog posts here on Departures with no set schedule or plan. For 2018, I debated with myself whether or not I would fully resurrect 52 Photographers or not, and I ultimately decided to take the plunge, and here we are!
While 52 Photographers will be heavily photography-oriented, I've come across artists working in other media that I am going to want to share with you! I can't wait to share the work of so many really great photographers! Head on over to 52Photographers.com and follow along! Posts will come in every Sunday evening.