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What is this?Brooklyn Desk Creative is the quasi-business site of Jeremy Speer, itinerant photographer and web geek. The name comes from my time in Minnesota while my wife was getting her PhD. I used to send letters and emails to friends back east and called them “dispatches from the Brooklyn desk.” For better or worse the name stuck. Photography has been a part of my life essentially since birth. My father was what you might call a “practitioner” of the craft. A consummate lousy businessman, he never made much money with his camera, but photography was part of his life. He was a student of Minor White and agreed with White’s opinion that photography could be a meditative, and personally transformative tool. Through his association with White, who later founded Aperture, he was asked to write the frontispiece/introduction for an edition of Aperture’s monograph of White’s work “Rites and Passages” (but amazingly there is no evidence he actually did this if you don’t happen to own a copy of the book). I suspect he was asked to write the piece by Aperture’s editors as a way to placate his growing frustration with Aperture not paying his consulting invoices. Little wonder he never…

Tag: duck-duck

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Day 1,714 – Growing Up

As you might expect, barring predation or the errant footfall, “duck-duck” has made it to adolescence.

July 8, 2014

Now Using Ollie

On September 29, 2023 I finally decided to try a “block” theme. This is turning out to be a complete mistake and is reinforcing my feeling that nothing is getting better.

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