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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…
8 months, 2 weeks 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…
8 months, 3 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…
8 months, 3 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…
9 months ago
The Curator's Disease - The Cost of Turning Your Life Into Content
Episode 39
Belle Gibson faked cancer. The Stauffers rehomed their adopted son when the content became too difficult. Ruby Franke is currently sitting in a priso…
9 months, 1 week ago
Noise in the Shadows - When the Enemy is Competence
Episode 38
June 6, 1944. Robert Capa is wading through the freezing water of Omaha Beach. He captures the most important images of the 20th century, and technic…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Basics, Deconstructed - Good vs. Bad - If It Feels Safe, It's Dead
Episode 37
In 1863, the Paris Salon rejected Édouard Manet's The Luncheon on the Grass for being too messy, too flat, too "unfinished." Today, it's one of the m…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Still Terrible - A Confession About Fear, Failure, and the Middle of the Story
Episode 36
In this episode, I talk about the question that has been following me around like a stray dog with abandonment issues:
“What am I doing wrong?”
A late-…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Bloody Knuckles - Let’s talk about A.I.
Episode 35
This is the episode I’ve been avoiding.
Not because I don’t have an opinion about AI — but because I have too many feelings about it. Gratitude. Fear.…
10 months ago
Economic Dumpster Fire - Why the Creative Economy Split in Half (and How to Navigate It)
Episode 34
Episode 34 | November 2025
I was in my garage last Tuesday, shooting beef tallow. Yes, beef tallow—jarred cow fat with a marketing department. And whi…
10 months ago