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Heresies - The Cult Member - Why Your Camera Brand Doesn't Care If You're a Good Photographer
Episode 49
Rochester, 1888. George Eastman releases the Kodak camera with a brilliant slogan: "You press the button, we do the rest." Serious photographers imme…
4 months ago
Basics, Deconstructed - Editing is Violence - How to Choose What Matters When Everything Looks Good
Episode 48
Most photographers drown in the edit.
Not because they can't see what's good. Because they can't choose what matters.
This episode is about the violenc…
4 months, 1 week ago
Heresies - The Proxy - Why Listening to Your Clients Might Be A Bad Idea
Episode 47
When a client says "I want exactly this," are they hiring you to execute their vision—or are they asking you to solve a problem they can't articulate…
4 months, 1 week ago
Amature - Why I Envy Photographers Who Don't Get Paid
Episode 46
There's a woman in Bangkok who's been selling noodles from the same corner for 43 years. She turned down Bon Appétit. Not because she's shy. Because …
4 months, 2 weeks ago
The Fresh Start Fallacy - Are You Building a Boat or Just Floating in a Tube?
Episode 45
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Three hundred years. That's how long my family has been in America. Jamestown. Virginia. Colonial laborers. Post-Civil War homest…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
The Long Middle - The Third Space - How to Actually Build Community When Traditional Third Spaces Are Dead (And Why We Have to Try Anyway)
Episode 44
You've mastered the craft. You've built the business. You're successful. But you're still lonely. You're Joshua Bell in the subway—playing a Stradiva…
5 months ago
The Long Middle - Part 3 - The Enemy - How Gatekeeping and Hierarchy Keep Creative Professionals Isolated (And Why We're All Complicit)
Episode 43
Why does a $600 light get dismissed while a $3,000 light gets respect, even when they produce identical results? Why do wedding photographers apologi…
5 months, 1 week ago
Basics, Deconstructed - Framing - Deconstructing Christopher Anderson’s Vanity Fair Portraits: What Every Photographer Needs to Know About Framing Power.
Episode 42
When Vanity Fair published Christopher Anderson’s portraits of the White House’s inner circle, the internet reacted to the politics. But as photograp…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
The Long Middle - Part 2 - The Costume - Why We Hide Behind Professional Roles
Episode 41
Why do photographers wear so much black? Why do we feel confident on stage but panic at networking events? And why is it so hard to find real communi…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
The Long Middle - Part 1 - The Island - Why Mastery Is Lonely
Episode 40
In January 2007, Joshua Bell—one of the world's best violinists—played a $3.5 million Stradivarius in a Washington D.C. subway station. Over 1,000 pe…
5 months, 3 weeks ago