LensWork - Photography and the Creative Process

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HT2669 - Photographic Artwork
01.07.2026 | 2 min.
HT2669 - Photographic Artwork

Isn't that an odd term? Do we refer to painting as "oil on canvas artwork?" Or sculpture as "carved marble artwork?" Is poetry referred to as "verbal artwork?" Do we use the term photographic artwork because not all photographs are artwork? Or is it that it's somehow important to specify the medium when we refer to artwork made by a human using a camera? Why not just call it artwork and be done with it? Why the extra adjective?

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HT2668 - Pretty On the Brain
30.06.2026 | 2 min.
HT2668 - Pretty On the Brain

I remember once a photographer said to me that "Ansel Adams was the Helmut Newton of the landscape." I understand what they were getting at and I'm not sure I can disagree. Like most other media of artistic expression, photography loves the pretty. Pretty girls, pretty sunsets, pretty flower blossoms, pretty landscapes, pretty trees, — we photographers have pretty on the brain. Is that a strength or a weakness?

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HT2667 - The Grand Illusion of Art
29.06.2026 | 2 min.
HT2667 - The Grand Illusion of Art

One of the supposed virtues of artmaking is that our art becomes a vehicle of immortality. I'm not so sure. Testament, yes. Immortality? Not a chance. Recently we've lost Jay Dusard, Carl Chiarenza, Duane Michals, and Jeff Schewe, all LensWork alums. A week doesn't go by without a letter from a grieving LensWork subscriber's relative letting us know their lost loved one will no longer need to receive LensWork. With each instance, I take a moment to remember them, be grateful for the opportunity to have known them, and remember that our time for producing our artwork is limited, finite, and precious

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LW1511 - Ignored, But Possibly a Treasure
29.06.2026
LW1511 - Ignored, But Possibly a Treasure

When I photographed in China in 2009, I assumed that the exotic landscape would create exotic pictures. I was wrong. One day in particular, we were photographing in the landscape on a day that was oppressively dreary and dull gray, heavily misted (or polluted), and boring. China was fascinating, but the photography was anything but. For years, I've ignored those images in my archives because I couldn't let go of the experience. I was wrong, again.

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HT2666 - The Wider the Focal Length
28.06.2026 | 2 min.
HT2666 - The Wider the Focal Length

Boy, I'm going to stick my neck out with this one. As a general rule of thumb, the shorter the focal length of your lens, the less personal the resulting image. Consider, for example Monument Valley. The wider the lens the more your picture will look like Monument Valley. The more the viewer identifies the location the less the image is about your response to the location. The implication of this is that we need to work even harder to make the picture our own vision.

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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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