David Paul Carr » peripheral vision

01 Jan

Peripheral vision?

A new site for the New Year. Destination unknown. A mystery tour, even for the driver… The basic premise: to have a place to share work …

17 Mar

Some thoughts on small cameras #3

I’ve been asked by a corporate client to do a little workshop on small cameras. A number of employees have been given Canon G11s to …

27 Feb

Shooting Photos & Video Together

I was recently commissioned to shoot both photos and video on a job. The photos were for a double-page magazine spread. The video was for …

08 Feb

Some thoughts on small cameras # 2

This picture was made for a commissioned story about a militant group of electrical technicians who reconnect people they consider to be suffering unreasonable hardship …

01 Feb

Latent Images

In the “old days” – that’s to say before some time around 2001 when I bought my first scanner – I was quite a good …

27 Jan

Some thoughts on video # 1

Click here to see the Postcard From NYC video on the main website or here to see it on Vimeo. I’ve spent the past two years …

24 Jan

Kilometer Zero

Struggling to sort, file, backup stuff that I regularly resolve to sort, file and backup, I came upon this, which maybe my first photograph. The family …

19 Jan

Some thoughts on small cameras # 1

There’s not much point repeating what’s been said better, earlier, and in more detail elsewhere. If you are one of the few people left on earth …

16 Jan

From the archives: Steven Soderbergh

From the archives, a portrait of Steven Soderbergh taken on assignment for Rolling Stone France at the American Film Festival in Deauville, 2002. Why dig this …

12 Jan

Leonard Cohen in Paris

I didn’t intend to take any pictures when I went to Leonard Cohen’s concert at the Olympia in Paris. I never thought he would do …

11 Jan

Simply some mushrooms…

…because of the colours… Canon G11, if anyone’s asking.