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Paige Green is a documentary and portrait photographer, whose storytelling approach to photography frequently addresses issues involving agriculture, land use, and food. Her work is featured in nine books and has been published in Glamour, National Geographic Traveler, New York Times Magazine, Conde Nast Traveler, GQ, Country Living, House Beautiful, and Culture. Paige lives in Petaluma, CA with a house full of boys.

Category: film vs digital

  • Apple Dumplings, Root Beer Saloon, My Grandparents and Me…

    It has been over 15 years since my last solo trip to visit my grandparents… and that is 15 years too long. I am very lucky. I get to see my grandparents, who live 2,173 miles away from me, at least twice a year. But those visits usually include at least 12 other relatives as…

  • A Few Favorite Rollei Faces…

    I often get asked what is the difference between film and digital, and so here is a collection of some of my favorite Rolleiflex (medium format film) portraits. It is not a requirement that you look serious when you are being photographed by the Rollei, but it is a requirement that you take the photo…

  • Gathering Color in Arizona…

    For the next year, I will be working with Rebecca Burgess, ecological artist and writer, on her book Gathering Color. The book will teach people how to create natural dyes, from native plants in their region, for their fiber arts projects. In order for the book to have national appeal, we are traveling to as…

  • A Day I Would Like to Live Again…

    . My man really knows how to throw a good birthday party, especially for himself. My only regret is that I didn’t take more photos… but I was too busy rollerskating.  We’ll just have to do it again soon. ps: I love my rolleiflex… film wins again!

  • The Honeymoon is Over…

    The honeymoon is over…  and it is back to work for Arann and the Green String Farm Band. They are getting serious about music and that means… more songs about chickens, a blog, a website, hot sauce, business cards, t-shirts, sweatshirts and very exciting secret musical instruments. Want to know what the secret musical instrument…

  • The Album is Ready…

    Remember the album I was talking about a few weeks ago? The sound editing is finished, the cd’s have been printed, the cd covers have been screen-printed and cut out by hand, and after their first weekend of gigs with their new cd’s… they have sold 20 so far. The whole package is definitely an…

  • More Kiea and Colin (I had to!)…

    I just loved the digital photos from my ‘after-the-wedding-photo-shoot’ with Kiea and Colin so much, so it isn’t a big surprise that when I finally scanned my Rolleiflex film… I love these photos too. These first three are my absolute favorites. I accidentally scanned them with the scanner set on color film… which gives black…

  • America’s Next Top Pregnant Model (Part 2: Film)…

    I have been so busy over the last month that I haven’t had time to scan my Rolleiflex negatives from the last several photo shoots… and it had been so long that I almost started to think that maybe digital was good enough. Maybe I wouldn’t do film so much anymore, because digital is so…

  • America’s Next Top Pregnant Model…

    Beth is another beautiful pregnant very-soon-to-be-mom and she wanted some photos of her baby belly. She had done her homework and watched America’s Next Top Model… so she knew all the right looks and poses so we did the usual pretty photos by the window… But then we went to the beautiful rocky coastline near…

  • So hard to choose…

    Meet Kiea and Colin. They got married on 6-7-8 (june, the sixth month, on the 7th day, and in the year 2008)… and everything about their love story seems to work in that amazing organic way… proving they fit together perfectly. They said their wedding was absolutely wonderful, and their only regret was there weren’t…