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Are you guilty of this?

A couple of weeks back a photo editor from a well known magazine in NYC Emailed me, looking for a selection of photographer recommendations in Sydney, Australia. The photographer had to be a woman and was needed to document an entrepreneur on the job. Easy peasy I thought. After suggesting three relevant photographers I had

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How to respond to compliments

How good are you at receiving compliments? Creative people, including photographers, do not always find this easy, especially when it’s about their work. If someone admires an image, movie, installation, or piece of art you’ve created, you might find yourself deflecting, mumbling something self-effacing, turning it into a joke…even blatant denial. And even if you

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Fear, failure, focus

Since being in USA I have seen many, many pumpkins and fake cobwebs and people dressed in quite odd costumes, and every conversation is about upcoming Halloween parties. They say Halloween started with the Pagan festival of Samhain, when people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off ghosts. Let’s face it, they didn’t

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How deep do you dare to go?

I just returned from my weekly Wednesday swim in the sea. I’ve been doing this all through winter. It’s the best feeling, though my friends think I’m mad. What’s madder is I’m kind of scared of the ocean, especially being out of my depth. But I make myself face that fear and push into slightly

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When’s your New Year?

Yesterday some of my gorgeous friends were celebrating day two of Rosh Hashanah, Jewish New Year. In June, Matariki, Maori New Year, was celebrated across New Zealand and beyond. In February, across Asia, tools will be downed to celebrate the Chinese New Year. I celebrate New Year in January, but I START my new year

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Ditching your agent?

There’s something in the air at the moment. Several photographers I know have left their reps, and their reps are trying to come up with the best solutions for closure. I’ve had calls and Emails from photographers and agents around the world about this. The end of a photographer/agent relationship is often fraught with emotion,

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Things are never what they seem

  If you’re an advertising photographer you’d know that agencies sometimes hire fashion photographers to shoot car ads, and sports photographers to shoot global bank campaigns, and animal photographers to promote high tech products. The list goes on. But did you know that online app Pinterest has hired photographers who’ve shot analogue on their campaigns?

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