I have just sent the last follow up Email of the year, and finally can stop for the holidays. The past few weeks have been a succession of calls with photographers across Britain, USA, Australia and New Zealand, on the back of a workshop I ran (The advertising photographers’ reset) and a podcast interview I
Last week, after a huge flurry of Instagram follows from photographers, I spent a bit of a procrastination session some time going through each follower- looking at their work, clicking on links and going to their websites. What was astonishing were the amount of broken links, non existent (even ‘bad’) web pages, and some of
I’m jumping in early this week to share an interview which has just been released on the excellent British podcast, Exposed Negative. If you want to have a watch or listen jump on over here. Tom, Greg and I had a hilarious (and I think very meaningful) chat about all those things which get photographers
Over the last few years, we’ve all been navigating a world that feels like it’s shifting beneath our feet. War, climate change, economic uncertainty and rapid advances in AI – it’s overwhelming how much is going on. It can feel like perpetually fighting fires. Like stuff is always ‘happening’ to us. The fact is, things
‘Can we go now?’ I repetitively asked my teacher Mrs Roche, plucking at her sleeve after we descended deep into the historic mine at Beamish on a school trip. I was eight, and not one bit interested in those historic machines and pictures of pit ponies and canaries (as much as I loved pit ponies
It can creep up on you, insidiously, first a whisper and then a roar. Or it can hit you with a thump. There’s no easy way to face that feeling of irrelevance. One day you’re flavour of your industry, being hired by all and sundry (if you can fit them in), and suddenly you’re wondering
‘I like shooting a wide range of work and don’t want to be pigeonholed doing the same thing all the time.’ This is something I am often told by photographers. But how do you stay consistent (so you don’t confuse people) and still get a nice diverse range of work? It’s easy. Focus on style,
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