I always knew when Megan, one of my senior producers, was overwhelmed – usually when she was juggling multiple shoots. She would suddenly stop tapping at her keyboard, and start piling everything from her desk onto the floor. The spray and wipe would come out, everything was spotlessly cleaned, and then the desk would be
Last week I was excited to be invited to lots of photography events to celebrate International Women’s Day. Attending exhibitions, artist talks and panels, I was reminded of the huge percentage of successful commercial female photographers who have somehow managed to keep shooting whilst carrying much, much more in their lives. Facing extreme physical and
This month I’ve been working with photographers joining my next Bootcamp mentoring programme, and helping them figure out their purpose, or ‘why’, and then using that information to inform a personal project. It’s a wonderful way to begin the year (and prepare for the 8 week intensive) and as always I’ve been so fascinated by
Yesterday a Canadian photographer who’s done my program told me about a huge bid he won late last year for a pharma client in USA. ‘I was up against some of the biggest names in the industry’, he said. ‘So we asked why they chose me. They said it was the bio on my website. Apparently it
When I’m helping photographers with their bio, or story, I ask them to make a note of things we wouldn’t know about them. In my Bootcamp program at the end of last year we discovered that 2 of the photographers (who lived in completely different countries and did not know one another before my programme) had both
Have you ever felt like chucking out everything you’ve made and starting again? Maybe you’re sick of shooting fashion, or you think you might get more work if you focus on still life instead of lifestyle, or vice versa. At this time of year it’s easy to default to ‘I’ll just start over’. New year,
At the end of last year I dropped in a reminder to list your wins from 2024. If you haven’t yet done that I highly recommend it as a starting place to get clarity about this year. For me, I ran workshops in London, Hanoi, Sydney and Melbourne. I was a part of Head On
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