The Overview Effect
"Rather like the fish who doesn’t realise he’s swimming in water, our relationship with our own terrain is easy to not perceive due to its ubiquity."
(GUP Magazine, 2017)
(GUP Magazine, 2017)
Insight on the Role of a Photography Editor
“A well-edited work, much like a well-designed product, doesn’t just look natural – it feels inevitable.”
—Katherine Oktober Matthews (Life Framer)
—Katherine Oktober Matthews (Life Framer)
Nothing Is Forever Except Everything
"We are obsessed with all that is fleeting, and our chosen means of showing this appreciation is through capture."
(GUP Magazine, 2017)
(GUP Magazine, 2017)
Holly Krieger: The Creativity and Structure of Pure Mathematics
“One moment, you have no clue what some piece of mathematics is saying or how it’s working, and suddenly there’s like this neurological shift and it clicks into place.”
—Dr. Holly Krieger (John Adams Institute)
—Dr. Holly Krieger (John Adams Institute)
Max Pinckers: Outsourcing Creation to Machines
"A computer doesn’t emotionally interpret the picture. It sees a woman, it sees a child, and maybe it can recognise ‘grieving’ because it knows from all the other pictures that it’s supposed to be grieving, but it doesn’t feel anything."
—Max Pinckers (GUP Magazine)
—Max Pinckers (GUP Magazine)
The Photographer of the Future
Viewbook hosted a brainstorming session in Arles this year to address the question: What does the photographer of the future need? I participated in both the brainstorming and a public presentation that followed, and the results of the session are…
Rina Mae Acosta: The Happiest Kids in the World
"School is supposed to be a place to learn, not a place to compete and get the highest scores. It’s a place to let a child discover who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are.”
—Rina Mae Acosta (John Adams Institute)
—Rina Mae Acosta (John Adams Institute)
GUP#54 – Playful
GUP#54 - The Playful Issue (August 2017). Cover by Nastia Cloutier-Ignatiev.
Klaus Pichler: This Will Change Your Life Forever
"Some scientific discoveries have come from looking at something that seems to be – at that moment – irrational and then discovering that it’s not that irrational. So, the earth isn’t flat, it’s a sphere."
—Klaus Pichler (GUP Magazine)
—Klaus Pichler (GUP Magazine)