Mirrors and Smoke: How I Became a Photographer

In 2011, prize-winning fiction writer Robert Dunn read a review of a new Fuji single-lens-reflex camera, and something clicked. Later that day, although the then-new Fuji X100 was as hard to get as the latest iPhone, he'd tracked one down. The next day he went out shooting photos for the first time since a brief dalliance with a cheap Nikon decades earlier.

Little did Dunn know his life had changed. He'd always loved photography, and now he took his new camera with him everywhere he went. Ph...