
Bill Russell writes about visual journalism, artists who cover the news and great reportage artists of the past and present.
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Summer ends at the autumnal equinox this Thursday, September 22, but in Northern California it often lingers, with warmer, fog‑free days stretching into early October. The golden, slanted light and deep shadows manages to slip into my drawi...
Bodie is a dusty, yellow‑ochre and rusty red ghost town, a memory that hasn’t quite finished fading.
Bodie, California sits on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada mountains, a gold‑fever town that burned bright and fast after a rich vein...
Sketchbook drawing of Haymakers with Scythes, 1815 by George Robert Lewis, Victoria and Albert Museum
In the summer of 1815, English painter George Robert Lewis (1782–1871) wandered the countryside of Northern Wales, filling a modest 6-by-...
The clear waters of Lake Ontario with Toronto in the distance
Lake Ontario was a constant presence in my early life. I spent countless hours of my youth at its edge...gazing, meditating, skipping stones and dreaming of a life in art on the...
In Frank Hodgkinson’s The Sepik Diary he describes the scene he sketches, ‘Further downstream on the left bank, houses animated on stilts dance and clutter around a long house of the village at Binn. A woman stand-paddles a pirogue, a famil...
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Bill Russell is a visual journalist, illustrator and painter who writes about art and reportage.
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