Ep.006 - Craig Semetko | “Very Expensive, Very Complicated, Not For You”
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Ep.006 - Craig Semetko | “Very Expensive, Very Complicated, Not For You”
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Craig Semetko didn’t pick up a camera until he was 40. He was a comedy writer and performer, working a corporate gig that took him around the world, and he bought a Nikon so he’d have something to shoot with. A woman at the lab told him he had a good eye. That was the whole permission slip.
In this episode we get into comedy as the strange cousin of photography, both of them built on timing and on withholding, and his master’s degree in consciousness studies, which turned out to be a thesis on serendipity. We talk about the dog in Varanasi that jumped into the frame on cue, the publisher he lost while lying in a hospital bed, the double lung transplant, and what the work becomes when you can’t walk the streets anymore.
His third book, America Unposed, is out now from Leica.
