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LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process

LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process

Written by: Brooks Jensen
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Random Observations on Art, Photography, and the Creative Process. These talks focus on the creative process in fine art photography. LensWork editor Brooks Jensen side-steps techno-talk and artspeak to offer a stimulating mix of ideas, experience, and observations from his 50 years as a fine art photographer, writer, and publisher. Topics include a wide range of subjects from finding subject matter to presenting your work, and building an audience.

Included in this RSS Feed are the LensWork Podcasts — posted weekly, typically 10-20 minutes exploring a topic a bit more deeply — and our almost daily Here's a thought… audios (extracted from the videos.) Here's a thought… are snippets, fragments, morsels, and tidbits from Brooks' fertile (and sometimes swiss-cheesy) brain. Usually just a minute or two. Always about photography and the art life.

Brooks Jensen is the publisher of LensWork, one of the world's most respected and award-winning photography publications, known for its museum-book quality printing and luxurious design. LensWork has subscribers in over 73 countries. He is the author of 13 books on photography and the creative life -- the latest books are The Best of the LensWork Interviews (2016), Photography, Art, and Media (2016), and the four annual volumes of Seeing in SIXES (2016-2019).

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  • HT2523 - The True Selfie

    HT2523 - The True Selfie
    Feb 4 2026

    HT2523 - The True Selfie

    Here is a great quote from one of my favorite anthologists: "To see ourselves we have to use a reflecting mirror — for example, art." Take a moment to think about the questions that pop up in the art life. What do I want to produce? Why do I want to produce it? Why is it important that I produce it? Why is this meaningful to me? What difficulties am I willing to endure to produce it? And these are just a few introspective questions off the top of my head! It seems that art can be as much about our inner-directed questions as it is about our outward-directed expressive statements.

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    3 mins
  • HT2522 - When the Image Takes Charge

    HT2522 - When the Image Takes Charge
    Feb 3 2026

    HT2522 - When the Image Takes Charge

    Over the years I've noticed a curiosity that pops up from time to time. I'll have in my mind's eye an idea of what I want an image to look like, but when I start processing it imposes an alternative I'd never thought about. Novelists will talk about their fictional character taking on a momentum of its own. I think the same thing can happen with photographs.

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    3 mins
  • LW1491 - More Thoughts on Project as Wall Art

    LW1491 - More Thoughts on Project as Wall Art
    Feb 2 2026

    LW1491 - More Thoughts on Project as Wall Art

    In the Editors Comments in LensWork #173, I discussed a presentation experiment that allowed me to exhibit a multi-image project on the wall using poster hangers. I just changed the presentation to a different project and that has me thinking about a few things I'm observed since the initial installation. I've been observing people's reaction to this type of presentation and discovered a couple of interesting and unexpected things about how people approach a wall full of art.

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    13 mins
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