“Nice work, but you’re not ready,” Bob McCamant declared, after flipping through the portfolio of 16-by-20-inch black-and-white prints I had spent many darkroom hours creating. We sat in his office at Reader headquarters on Illinois Street, in 1986, the year I graduated from Columbia College. McCamant was one of the group of four who’d founded […]
Author Archives: Jim Newberry
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Photo Pit: Umbrella Music Festival
Matthias Schubert of the Longrun Development of the Universe; Wadada Leo Smith; Günter “Baby” Sommer
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Photo Pit: Scotland Yard Gospel Choir, Liam Hayes & Plush
Subterranean, June 19; Hideout, June 20
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Photo Pit: Tinariwen
Live (and in class) at the Old Town School of Folk Music, 2/27-28