Detroit Focus Online • Vol. 2, No. 3

David Griffith, photographer

Interview by Doug Aikenhead • Photos by David Griffith


DA: What led you into photography in the first place? As you got more involved with photography, what motivated you to make the photographs that you did? Do the same things motivate you today?

DMG: At first a constant curiosity that seemed almost genetic in its naturalness and its insistence. Then, the fact that I got results. I remember as a 5 year old, having an argument with my father over the use of his Kodak Pocket Folding Camera. I insisted at that point that I could use it. I was overruled, but the concept persisted, as though I was born to photograph. Nothing else has been as creatively rewarding.

Read more of this interview and view David Griffith's photographs
in
this month's feature story...



Road Trips
Story by Bruce Giffin /
Photos by Bruce Giffin's photography students

"Sunday morning...it’s 5° outside. Most people are in for the day, but not us! I’m talking about myself and 12-15 young photographers. It’s Sunday and we’re going on a road trip. Explore "Road Trips" here...

Street
Photographs by Charlee Brodsky / Poems by Jim Daniels


Jim Daniels’ poems in conversation with Charlee Brodsky’s photographs make for a remarkable collective work. This is a street that goes nowhere in particular, not a thoroughfare but a place to see and be seen, an invention that just might keep this world from sliding into utter inconsequence. Explore "Street" here...


From the Editor's Desk

Detroit Focus Managing Director, Michael Sarnacki, talks about this month's issue in From the Editor's Desk.

Patty Izzo recognized...
The Detroit News recently did a nice story on Detroit Focus' Events & Opportunities Editor, Patty Izzo. Read the story here...

Police, pigs and pictures
Read Ann Arbor photographer Dwight Cendrowski's highly entertaining account of assisting on a photo shoot for Entertainment Weekly here...

World Photo Day 2005
World Photo Day was completed on June 1, 2005. A total of 1026 images have been posted here...

The Gilda's Gang 12-Month Calendar, featuring photos by Bruce Giffin is now on sale for $10. Support this worthy cause and buy it here.
"Talking Shops: Detroit Commercial Folk Art" by David Clements is an intriguing new book of photographs of Detroit-area building exteriors. More...

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