Zen-Camera

Publisher: Watson-Guptill – Hardcover – February 13, 2018

About the Book

Zen Camera is an unprecedented photography practice that guides you to the creativity at your fingertips, calling for nothing more than your vision and any camera, even the one embedded in your phone.

David Ulrich draws on the principles of Zen practice as well as forty years of teaching photography to offer six profound lessons for developing your self-expression. Doing for photography what The Artist’s Way and Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain did for their respective crafts, Zen Camera encourages you to build a visual journaling practice called your Daily Record in which photography can become a path of self-discovery. Beautifully illustrated with 83 photographs, its insights into the nature of seeing, art, and personal growth allow you to create photographs that are beautiful, meaningful, and uniquely your own.

You’ll ultimately learn to change the way you interact with technology—transforming it into a way to uncover your innate power of attention and mindfulness, to see creatively, and to live authentically.

David UlrichAbout the Author

DAVID ULRICH is an active photographer and writer whose work has been published in numerous books and journals including Aperture, Parabola, Mānoa, and Sierra Club publications. Ulrich’s photographs have been exhibited internationally in over seventy-five one-person and group exhibitions in museums, galleries, and universities and can be found in many public and private collections. He is currently co-director of Pacific New Media Foundation in Honolulu, Hawai‘i and a faculty member at Chaminade University. He previously taught for University of Hawai‘i Mānoa and served as Professor and Chair of the Art Department at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle as well as Associate Professor and Chair of the Photography Department of the Art Institute of Boston (now Lesley University College of Art and Design). An engaging speaker and workshop leader, David Ulrich has inspired many people at conferences, colleges and universities, workshop facilities, and art centers. He earned a BFA degree from the Museum School of Fine Arts in Boston and an MFA degree from the Rhode Island School of Design. He is a consulting editor for Parabola magazine and a frequent contributor.

David Ulrich is the best-selling author of Zen Camera: Creative Awakening with a Daily Practice in Photography (Watson Guptill/Penguin Random House, 2018), the companion volume for The Mindful Photographer. He is also the author of The Widening Stream: the Seven Stages of Creativity and coauthor of Through Our Eyes: A Photographic View of Hong Kong by Its Youth. His recent book of photographs, Oceano: An Elegy for the Earth, is scheduled for publication in 2022 by George F. Thompson Publishing in association with the Center for the Study of Place. Visit his website at: www.creativeguide.com.