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Photoblogging can be a culturally arid desert. Maybe it’s because everyone can post pictures to a blog, or maybe it’s the pressure to perform. The ‘one picture a day’ machismo that separates real men from the rest is, for the most part, inversely correlated with the quality of the work displayed.
That said, there are some truly fine photographers regularly posting pictures on line.
One of my favorites is an English photographer who makes Toronto his home and posts to his cleverly named Mute photoblog. Miles’s photography is as tight and clean as the design of his blog and scarcely a week passes when I don’t find myself thinking “I wish I had seen that”.
For sheer magic, try this or, for the surreal, how about this? For as long as I can remember he has posted the occasional picture taken with a camera aimed at the ground glass screen of his old Rollei. While the tendency is to dismiss this as so much gimickry, I confess to finding the results strangely haunting for their old world look and feel. Miles also has the ‘in your face’ street portraiture thing down cold and you will see great examples every now and then on his site.
Best as I can tell, Miles seems to pretty much post daily. (When he misses a day he actually apologizes!). Beats me how he does it in light of the consistently high quality of his work. Step by Mute and add it to your bookmarks.
I agree with you. Miles is very talented and he deserves to be recognised.