159: Brooks Jensen - Creating Personally Meaningful Landscape Photography

Welcome to episode 159 of the F-Stop Collaborate and Listen podcast. This week's amazing guest is none other than Brooks Jensen , someone I have admired for many years. Brooks Jensen is a fine-art photographer, publisher, workshop teacher, and writer. He and his wife Maureen Gallagher are the owners, co-founders, editors, and publishers of the award winning LensWork , one of today’s most respected and important periodicals in fine art photography. With subscribers in 72 countries, Brooks’ impact on fine art photography is truly world-wide. LensWork Publishing is also at the leading edge in multimedia and digital media publishing with LensWork Extended — a PDF based, media-rich expanded version of the magazine. Brooks' personal work can be seen in his on-going series, Kokoro , a PDF based, downloadable periodical. LensWork Online , a membership website, features 10 channels of content featuring Brooks’ 50-years of experience in fine art photography including: Audio programs — Editor’s Comments , Looking at Images , Those Who Inspire Me (and Why) , and interviews with over 400 photographers. Video programs — our daily Here’s a Thought . . ., Feedback Reviews , Exploring the Possibilities , and Creative Labs. Brooks is the author of ten best-selling books on photography and creativity: Looking at Images , The Creative Life in Photography , Letting Go of the Camera, the three volume set Single Exposures: Random Observations on Art, Photography and Creativity . His most recent books are Photography, Art, & Media ; The Best of the LensWork Interviews , and Seeing in SIXES (four volumes published in 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019). A monograph of his work was published in 2012 titled Made of Steel . Brooks and I has a wonderful conversation about a variety of topics this week, including: Creating personally meaningful landscape photography work. His historical perspective as a landscape photographer. How and why landscape photography has evolved into what it is today. What types of images he looks for to publish in LensWork. ...and a lot more! Over on Patreon this week, Brooks and I discuss the pros and cons of doing open edition prints vs. limited edition prints - a conversation based on an article Brooks wrote which has defined my views on the subject. I hope you enjoy our conversation! Here are the people Brooks recommended for the podcast: 1. Huntington Witherill . 2. Carl Chiarenza . 3. Dominic Rouse . 4. Cole Thompson . Other items mentioned on the show: 1. My conversation with Ian Plant on Shuttermonkeys .