CLOSE UP Video Interviews: About Close Up

This website features photographs and video interviews that I pause to take when I am out in the community (mostly my community, Northwest Philadelphia but sometimes far beyond) going about my normal business, first with my digital camera but now with my iPhone handy. I love to meet people and, when I see someone or something interesting, I am curious to find out more. I studied photography many years ago with Don Camera (seriously!) and was exposed (pun intended) to darkroom work at the Fleisher Art Memorial. I collect photography books, black and white, color, photojournalistic, landscape, experimental, but a little less passionately now that the web is so rich in images. My current inspirations are too numerous to list!

I thank my subjects who share their visages and sometimes more, voices and thoughts with you.

Short videos also accompany most of the photo interviews here and can be found at http://www.youtube.com/buhrayin

Many of the photos have appeared on and off in"Close Up" in the Chestnut Hill Local print version and likewise with photos and videos in its online edition. Some of my video stories or clips of them have been picked up by mainstream media: WHYY, TBS, Fox TV. Beginning in 2014 many audio excerpts of the video interviews were broadcast on the BBC World Radio hosted by Dan Damon.

If you are an editor and like what you see here, I have many more photos and videos of Philly and beyond for you to consider publishing. Contact me through the link on the home page.

Thank you for visiting.

Brian Rudnick

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Note:

What I am doing in this blog is journal-ing in the sense of keeping a journal “a written record of what you have done each day, sometimes including your private thoughts and feelings” https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/journal Please do not look for balanced reporting here. From the numerous posts in the Politics category, you most definitely will see that I have an agenda or agendas! However, I do try to accurately convey what I am writing about, as I have witnessed it. Just as I would never rely on any one source of information about a subject or event, I encourage you to read beyond this. As someone with a degree and career in Library and Information Sciences, I also urge you to look at personal blog posts such as these through the most critical of lenses.