LPV Magazine

Absolutely killer. Masterful capturing of expressions, and placement of subject. I think in pictures like these, the ease between the photographer and the captured people comes through. This shows me Pula is really there with those people.

 just to keep the metaphors coming, a live show and a studio record are different things. An iphone recording of the live show is just an atrocity ; )

  Hey people both are true, I’m just too stupid to get google alerts on
my candy bar nokia! Its a discussion that needs to happen, napster, naw
forget that the invention of the cassette tape started this and
hopefully we’ll figure it out in the next 50 years. Cassettes/mp3′s
effected both Metallica and Daniel Johnston in profoundly different
ways, and Girl Talk just dances on the line and makes a living at it.
Stay firm on both sides but be willing to hear each other.

Talk about missing the point. My point was that there are a lot of us
out there toiling in obscurity, “living on noodles to buy film,” and that if I
were lucky enough to be getting the kind of attention Pula is I
certainly wouldn’t complain about it. I know quite a few hard-working, like-minded artists. I was using myself as an example but my comment wasn’t really about me at all. I think Pula has every right to feel the way he does, but I wanted to let LPV know that not everyone feels that way and that there are people who appreciate the work they do, just as you felt the need to get your troll on and tell me how wrong I am. Actually, no, we weren’t doing the same thing. My aim was to make someone feel better and all you want to do is make me feel bad.

Putting a photographer’s work–work that can be seen by anyone with an internet connection–on your site and recommending it to other people is not the same as stealing music (which I don’t do, by the way–you don’t know a thing about me and it’s a waste of both your time and mine to pretend that you do). It’s sharing, not stealing. Nothing is being taken away from the photographer, and the more people see the work the more chances there are for good things to come his way.

I’m not jealous at all, and I did, in fact, give him
credit–I opened with a compliment and didn’t say a single negative thing about him. It’s great work and I’m glad I saw
it, and I understand and respect all the hard work that goes into making it. I don’t do jealousy–another person’s success has absolutely nothing to do with me. “Be happy for other people” is part of my personal artist’s code.

If you want to have a real conversation about these ideas I’m open, but if all you want to do is scold me and make assumptions about the kind of person I am then this is it for me.

These portraits are fantastic, thank you for introducing me to Pula’s work.

I don’t think you were in the wrong, though. This is no shady Thai porn site, it’s a site that gets people thinking and talking about photography in a way that’s totally legit and offers both respect and recognition to the artists. I love finding my work on random blogs, and if it happened to me all the time like it seems to for this guy instead of like, once a year, I’d be over the moon. Connecting with people is awesome and all, but there aren’t enough hours in the day for you to write a fan letter to every photographer whose work you’re interested in and wait for a response and still get everything you need to do done.

Keep on doing what you’re doing, and you’re welcome to post my work and link to my website without notifying me any time you want! That’s what Google Alerts are for.