Redux Pictures

Misty Keasler photographed Martha Leonard in Dallas, Texas for the June 2013 issue of Redbook.

Misty Keasler photographed Melissa Leo for the September 16, 2012 issue of The New York Times Magazine. 

Misty Keasler photographed a family outside their home in Frisco, Texas, for HGTV magazine, September 2012. 

Misty Keasler photographed Luol Deng of the Chicago Bulls for the July 2012 issue of The London Times Magazine.

Misty Keasler photographed "The people and places you need to know to plan a wedding in Austin" for the July 2012 issue of Brides.

Misty Keasler's essay from the Photographs Not Taken book was featured on the Wall Street Journal blog. To view, click here.

Daylight, MoMA/PS1 and DAP are presenting a panel discussion coinciding with the recent release of Photographs Not Taken edited by Will Steacy. Panelists include contributors Nina Berman, Gregory Halpern, Will Steacy and Amy Stein and will be moderated by Daylight co-founders Taj Forer and Michael Itkoff. Sunday, April 22 at 2:00pm at PS1 in Long Island City, NYC.

Photographs Not Taken is a collection of photographers' essays about failed attempts to make a picture. Editor Will Steacy asked each photographer to abandon the conventional tools needed to make a photograph—camera, lens, film—and instead make a photograph using words, to capture the image (and its attendant memories) that never made it through the lens. In each essay, the photograph has been stripped down to its barest and most primitive form: the idea behind the image. This collection provides a unique and original interpretation of the experience of photographing, and allows the reader access to a world rarely encountered: the image making process itself.

Misty Keasler photographed Gillian Vanderslice in Dallas, Texas for the April 2012 issue of Teen Vogue.

Misty Keasler photographed Rais Bhuiyan, a Bangledeshi American victim of a violent racial hate crime, for the feature “AMERICANS OF THE YEAR” in the December 2011 issue of Esquire Magazine.