Unsolicited Critiques Category

Brett Harrington posted this on Flickr a few days ago. After I gave it a minute to sink in, I was all

This is another one of those "everything" images… it’s real and abstract, distant and in your face, cold and inviting. But I think it defies that kind of analysis because almost every observation I […]

This is part of a series of unsolicited photo critiques—see introduction.
This untitled photograph is by Brett Harrington (aka S.McKay). This isn’t really a critique or a commentary, because anything I could say about this image would start to define it according to my point of view, and to define it would be to fuck it […]

This is the first in a series of unsolicited photo critiques (see introduction).
This photo, Jessica, Tomsu Cleaners, is by Dan Loflin. I love this guy’s work, and he’s made heaps of other interesting images, but this is a recent one that grabbed me.
Take a good, long look. This one’s better if you let it unfold […]

I’m starting a new "feature" here on Photon Detector: unsolicited photo critiques. Generally, they’ll be of photos that I think work really well. Hopefully I’ll be able to articulate, at least to some degree, what’s successful about them to me, though I may put up the occasional "damn, check this shit out!" just because it’s […]