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1 week ago | 
dinalitovsky.substack.com | Dina Litovsky
Welcome to In the Flash, a weekly, behind-the-lens dialogue on photography. To join the conversationThis April, I spent four weeks circling Christopher, Hudson, and Bleecker streets, looking for West Village girls for a cover of New York Magazine. The first challenge of this tricky shoot was identifying who fit the profile written by Brock Colyer. These were the visual markers I was looking for.
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1 week ago | 
nytimes.com | Salamishah Tillet |Dina Litovsky
"The place where Elphaba and I meet is empathy and advocacy for justice," said Lencia Kebede, who is the first Black actress to play the role full time on Broadway. Credit... The last time Lencia Kebede lived in New York, in 2015, she was a 21-year-old college intern at the United Nations, taking and translating notes for the ambassador from Guatemala, who was working on an anti-poverty initiative. What a difference a decade can make.
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2 weeks ago | 
zeit.de | Dina Litovsky
17 Stunden ist Patrick Lipscomb-Jefferson bereits auf den Beinen, als er am Donnerstagabend den Broadway in Manhattan mit Tausenden anderen Menschen Richtung Süden entlang marschiert. Vor ihm wird getrommelt, hinter ihm gebrüllt. "This is what democracy looks like!" Und immer wieder "This is what democracy looks like!" Müde? No, no, no. "Ein Gewerkschafter ist doch nie müde", sagt der 40-Jährige. Sein Lächeln verrät, dass er den Satz, anders als seine Hingabe, nur halb ernst meint.
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2 weeks ago | 
dinalitovsky.substack.com | Dina Litovsky
Welcome to In the Flash, a weekly, behind-the-lens dialogue on photography. To join the conversationThis is an updated version of a post for Bulletin, published for the first time on Substack. In the first critique class at my MFA program in photography, a student hung up a print of a chair taken in their dorm room. The chair had an Ikea-like flair of the ordinary, and the photo itself was underexposed and underwhelming.
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3 weeks ago | 
dinalitovsky.substack.com | Dina Litovsky
In the Flash is a reader-supported publication about intent and creativity in photography. To join the conversationI bought myself a new camera last week with a goal to push myself to shoot for myself, something I stopped doing in recent years. Laziness played a role, but so did not having the right gear for playing. My Nikon D4 is a tank, not exactly suited for casual strolls.
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3 weeks ago | 
dinalitovsky.substack.com | Dina Litovsky
In the Flash is a reader-supported publication about intent and creativity in photography. To join the conversationI was browsing through Substack, my preferred doom-scrolling platform, when I stumbled upon an article featuring moody, theatrically lit street scenes. I was sure these were the unpublished photos of Philip-Lorca diCorcia, one of my favorite photographers, but when I opened the feature, I saw that it was someone else entirely. The resemblance wasn’t superficial, it was structural.
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1 month ago | 
dinalitovsky.substack.com | Mark Leibovich |Dina Litovsky
In the Flash is a reader-supported publication about intent and creativity in photography. To join the conversationI don’t like checking email when I’m high, but sometimes I space out and compulsively refresh my iPhone, hoping for something new and shiny. That’s how I clicked on an email from The Atlantic, which said, “Wondering if you might be free this Friday for a shoot in Nashville?
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1 month ago | 
dinalitovsky.substack.com | Dina Litovsky
In the Flash is a reader-supported publication about intent and creativity in photography. To join the conversationI’ve been thinking a lot about hands in portraits — how to maneuver them into the frame without making the photo awkward. Few photographers are able to exploit hands as a unique visual layer without resorting to stiff stock poses like the pensive hand under chin. Hands can be eloquent and revealing, adding complexity to the image, but they are also hard to direct.
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1 month ago | 
dinalitovsky.substack.com | Dina Litovsky
In the Flash is a reader-supported publication about intent and creativity in photography. To join the conversationAfter GQ posted the photos of Bill Burr on their Insta, I started getting private DMs.“Hi can you tell me how you created the photo of Bill in slide 3?! Is it a prism or done in post? Would love to try it! Thanks in advance 😊”“What’s your run n gun flash set up?”“Could you tell me what kind of gels you are using? And are you using a snoot?
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2 months ago | 
dinalitovsky.substack.com | Dina Litovsky
In the Flash is a reader-supported publication about intent and creativity in photography. To join the conversationMy taste in comedy skews towards what some people would call “offensive" — George Carlin, Dave Chappelle, Eddie Murphy, Frankie Boyle, and Jimmy Carr. If it doesn’t bite, I get bored. When I got the assignment to photograph Bill Burr for GQ, I prepared myself by watching (for the first time) three of his specials, and my abs hurt from laughing the following day.
