‘You photograph with all your ideology’

The best way to improve your photography skills, according to what I hear from peers, professors and veteran photographers, is to spend a good time looking at other people’s works, and see what they photographed, and try to think about where the photographer was standing when he was taking that pic, etc.

But, photography books in general tend to be obscenely pricey. Thanks, however, to the internet there are numerous photography and multimedia websites you can browse and learn more if you are interested.

Still, every now and then it’s nice to buy a hard copy of a book by a photographer you like.. and in my case, I was thrilled to find Sebastião Salgado‘s “Workers” yesterday in one of Berkeley’s bookstores at a very generous discount rate.

This book is a jewel. It’s actually one of my dreams to put together one day a project like that about the Egyptian working class, whose visual history is rarely documented.