Reflections

Bored Monks, by Ryszard Wierzbicki - Photojournalism, Portrait Photography, Documentary Photography, Ryszard Wierzbicki, Photo of the Day

The Weight of Stillness

Time is a heavy cloak when you are young. It hangs from the shoulders, dragging its hem through the dust of long afternoons where the sun refuses to move and the shadows stretch like tired limbs. We are taught that stillness is a virtue, a…
Empty, by Keith Goldstein - Street Photography, Photojournalism, Award Winning Photography, Keith Goldstein, Photography Awards

The Weight of Stillness

We often mistake silence for a lack of substance, as if the quiet spaces in our day are merely waiting to be filled. But there is a profound gravity in the act of simply being. When we stop moving, when we cease the constant reaching for the…
The Tenderloin, by Keith Goldstein - Photojournalism, Photography, Documentary Photography, Street Photography, Keith Goldstein

The Ghost of What Remains

Why do we insist on carving our names into the bark of trees that will eventually fall? We move through cities built on the bones of older cities, walking over the echoes of voices that have long since dissolved into the hum of traffic. There…