Photography
Searls' journalism career began in 1971, when he worked as an editor and photographer for Wayne Today in New Jersey. In recent years his photographic work consists of pushing as many shots as possible into the public domain, through permissive Creative Commons licensing for a sum of photos on Flickr that now total more than 41,000 on his own site alone. (He also posts on three other sites: two for the Berkman Center and one for Linux Journal.) A large percentage of those are shot out the windows of commercial aircraft. There are among more than 300 of his photos that now appear in Wikimedia commons (none of which he put there). Many of these also illustrate articles in Wikipedia as well.
His photos have also appeared in many books, magazines and other media, including NBC's coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. There Doc's ice crystal photos served as key elements for the network's coverage. (Searls ran in the credits as a member of the design team.)
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“If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely thanks to the natural support it will find in the stupidity of the multitude. It must return to its real task, which is to be the servant of the sciences and the arts, but the very humble servant, like printing and shorthand which have neither created nor supplanted literature.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)
“Too many photographers try too hard. They try to lift photography into the realm of Art, because they have an inferiority complex about their Craft. You and I would see more interesting photography if they would stop worrying, and instead, apply horse-sense to the problem of recording the look and feel of their own era.”
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