We are entering what I used to call PhotoPlus season, although there hasn’t been a PhotoPlus Expo since 2019. We lost 2020 and 2021 to COVID, and the 2022 event was supposed to be in a changed format with fewer and smaller booths and more photo walks. The new format was very focused on TikTok creators instead of traditional photographers – PhotoPlus events in past years had featured National Geographic Explorers, White House correspondents and legendary portraitists, while the biographies for 2022 all prominently featured the (non)word TikTok, and none of them mentioned art school or print publications. Very few of the featured speakers had any resume to speak of in still photography, even online. For a much more image-focused, less gear-focused show, the limited range of image-makers who were going to be featured was extremely disappointing.
I had my ride all saddled up and ready to go to New York for CreateNYC (what once was PhotoPlus), when it got cancelled again!
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Dan Wells, "Shuttterbug" on the trail, is a landscape photographer, long-distance hiker and student in the Master of Divinity program at Harvard Divinity School. He lives in Cambridge, MA when not in wild places photographing and contemplating our connection to the natural world. Dan's images try to capture the spirit he finds in places where, in the worlds of the Wilderness Act of 1964, "Man himself is but a visitor". He has hiked 230 miles of Vermont's Long Trail and 450 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail with his cameras, as well as photographing in numerous National Parks, Seashores and Forests over the years - often in the offseason when few people think to be there. In the summer of 2020, Dan plans to hike a stretch of hundreds of miles on the Pacific Crest Trail, focusing on his own and others' spiritual connection to these special places, and making images that document these connections.
Over years of personal work and teaching photography, Dan has used a variety of equipment (presently Nikon Z7 and Fujifilm APS-C). He is looking for the perfect combination of light weight, ruggedness and superb image quality.
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