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The Mask - The Hidden Cost of Performing Expertise You Actually Have
Episode 53
A photographer friend once gave me three words of advice that I've never been able to use: just be yourself.
Not because the advice is wrong. But beca…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Heresies - The Hyde - How Photography Is Used for Sexual Exploitation
Episode 52
London. 1886. A respected doctor stands before a mirror and drinks a potion he swore he would only use once. He doesn’t grow horns or sprout claws. H…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Heresies - The Corpse - How Instagram Trained Photographers to Be Perfect, Then Called It Boring
Episode 51
I posted a question on Threads: "Where are you posting your images these days?"
The answers were scattered. Glass. Grainery. Pixelfed. Substack. Flick…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Heresies - The Oracle - Why Photography Influencers Are Modern Televangelists
Episode 50
It's 3 AM. You're scrolling through infomercials. A televangelist is selling "Miracle Spring Water" for $50—promising financial breakthroughs, healin…
7 months ago
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…
7 months, 1 week 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…
7 months, 2 weeks 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…
7 months, 2 weeks 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 …
7 months, 3 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…
8 months 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…
8 months, 1 week ago