The New York Times – Year in Pictures

Every year The New York Times spends several weeks culling back through everything shot by their photographers that year. This is one of the biggest perks of my job. I firmly believe that one of simplest and most affective things you can do to improve your eye as a photographer is study pictures. Expose yourself to great photography and it’s inevitable that as you refine your sensibility as a photographer your pictures will reflect that. Early on I immersed myself in the books of photographers like Robert Frank, Andre Kertesz, Arnold Newman, Richard Avedon, Robert Capa, Minor White and W. Eugene Smith and to this day I think the way I shoot is greatly influenced by these early experiences. Check out the Year in Pictures, and especially the audio that accompanies Barton Silverman’s image.