Beating Gear Acquisition Syndrome
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Beating Gear Acquisition Syndrome

Almost every photographer I know suffers at least slightly. Understanding gear acquisition syndrome or GAS, is important if you want to stay in charge of your photography. In 1998 at age 90, the photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, who was decidedly middle class and used a Leica, observed to the acclaimed and occasionally sharp photographer Helmut Newton:…

Seamlessly Switching Genres in Photography
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Seamlessly Switching Genres in Photography

Switching genres in Photography is not quite as simple as you might hope. In this post, I’m going to talk about the importance of being open to learning, retaining objectivity about your own skill levels as a photographer and the importance of being open to learning entirely new skills. Switching genres is a great way…

Why Narrative in Photography is Not Dead
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Why Narrative in Photography is Not Dead

Who Moved my Narrative? Narrative in Photography is not dead, it’s simply that the ways we come across photography rarely encourage it. Is social media even capable of sustaining narrative? This article is a bringing together of several seemingly unrelated strands I have been thinking about recently. Things that I have been doing in my…

The Photographic Mid-Life Crisis
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The Photographic Mid-Life Crisis

This post is in part a response to an article on the United Nations of Photography blog on the photographic mid-life crisis. It’s (The post not the crisis) an interesting take on the industry today and the position career photographers find themselves in as they progress. That article addresses commissioned photographers in particular. I’d like…