Focus on Sunday: The Capture

Photo by Meg Boscov

[Editor’s Note: This ongoing Sunday feature pairs photographs from Meg Boscov with a thought (or two) from the managing editor about focusing on tiny things to find something significant. Click on the picture itself to view at full size.]

 

 

“Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask ‘how’, while others of a more curious nature will ask ‘why’. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.” – Man Ray What does one do for the photo? Take it? Snap it? Shoot it? Make it? Capture it? Capture comes from the Latin captūra: taking, seizing, What has one taken here? What has one seized? An opportunity, perhaps? “Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”– Dorothea Lange Stilled it? Distilled it? “If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.”– Robert Capa

 

“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” And what is this Sunday’s message? Seize the moment. Hold it still, close. Make it yours, your swan song, your moment both in and out of time, your ‘why.”

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Meg Boscov is a photographer who lives and works outside of Philadelphia where she continues to pursue her careers in animal-assisted education and dog training.

Check out the write-up of the journal in The Writer.

Matter Press recently released titles from Meg Boscov, Abby Frucht, Robert McBrearty, Tori Bond, Kathy Fish, and Christopher Allen. Click here.

Matter Press is now offering private flash fiction workshops and critiques of flash fiction collections here.

Submissions

Poetry, creative nonfiction, and fiction/prose poetry submissions are now closed. The reading period for standard submissions opens again September 15, 2025. Submit here.

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09/15 • Abbie Doll
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10/06 • Jennifer Edwards
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11/03 • Sara Cassidy
11/10 • Liz Abrams-Morley
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11/24 • Lucy Zhang
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