Site Maintenance (Updated)

Update: All updates relevant to The Photo Playground have been done and everything appears to be bug free.  I should also mention that http://seanstimac.com will no longer be forwarding traffic to The Photo Playground.  Approximately 5% of our traffic is currently coming from seanstimac.com, please update your links accordingly.  Thanks. I apologize for the...

Joe Sobel

This weeks featured photographer is Joe Sobel.  I’ve known Joe for several years now.  In the Winter semester of 2009, Joe and I were in the same photography seminar course at Northern Michigan University.  From the outset of that course, Joe’s work was striking.  He was the most junior of all of us, but...

Facebook’s New Groups Product

Greetings readers.  This is just a quick update on what the Facebook’s new groups product means for readers and followers of The Photo Playground.  Fortunately the new groups product has made significant improvements over their previous groups product.  Although it does seem that Facebook is always in the middle of some sort of controversy...

Susannah Benjamin, part two

As promised last week, here is the second installment of Susannah Benjamin’s photographs.  I’ll keep the writing to a minimum this week and just let you enjoy these amazing photographs. Share this Article

Lumix 13.2 MP Cellular Phone

This gorgeous machine, readers, is a 13.2 megapixel camera phone produced by Lumix.  It was debuted on the 5th of October, just two days ago, in Japan.  Unfortunately, for now it will only be available in the Japanese market. From the backside it appears to be like many other slide phones currently available on...

Susannah Benjamin, part one

Susannah Benjamin Today is a rare day.  It’s unique in that I often have difficulties picking only a few photographs from each featured photographer, but I always manage to do it.  Not this time.  You will notice that the title indicates that there are going to be multiple posts on our next featured photographer,...

Our Debt to John Szarkowski

There is an excellent article written by Sean O’Hagan on John Szarkowski on the front page of the Guardian’s Photography section right now.  It is kind of old news, being published on 20th of July and I should have posted a link sooner, but it is better late than never.  Anyone with a deep...

Vernacular Photography

Like many other photography enthusiasts, I collect photographs.  Unlike many photography enthusiasts, I collect snapshots taken by anonymous people and have been for about a decade.  What is a vernacular photograph?  Is art and if it isn’t why have they been popping up in museums and galleries over the past ten years or so? ...

Update: All updates relevant to The Photo Playground have been done and everything appears...

This gorgeous machine, readers, is a 13.2 megapixel camera phone produced by Lumix.  It...

There is an excellent article written by Sean O’Hagan on John Szarkowski on the...

Greetings readers, just thought that I would drop a short friendly message reminding everyone...