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Do you know where your photography is heading?
Where Are You In Your Work? is a set of sixteen honest questions for photographers at every stage of their practice.
At a certain point in any serious practice, the early questions stop being the hardest ones.
Technical confidence, compositional instinct, a growing body of work you are proud of. These come with time and sustained attention.
But then something shifts. The questions change register. And the new ones are considerably harder to answer alone.
What this guide is
Sixteen honest questions, three phases.
This is not a tutorial. There is nothing to apply or master. It is a set of sixteen questions that help you locate yourself clearly in your own practice, and understand where the edges are.
These are not questions with right answers. They are questions with honest ones, and the distance between those two things is the whole territory this guide covers.
Phase One
The Individual Image
Was this composition a choice, or did habit put you there?
Every photographer has a default position; a focal length they reach for, a distance they instinctively settle at. The question is whether you chose it, or it chose you.
Phase Two
The Body of Work
Which images are doing the most work, and which are the weakest?
Not all images carry equal weight. Some are the reason the project exists. Others earn their place around them. Knowing which is which changes every subsequent decision.
Phase Three
The Overall Direction
Do you know what your work is trying to become, and can you continue making it without that answer?
This is not a question that resolves. It is one that travels with you. What changes over time is your relationship to not knowing the answer.
The questions escalate. What you cannot answer yet marks the edge of where your practice currently reaches, and that edge is worth knowing.
Who is it for
Every stage of practice.
These questions work at every level. Photographers who are just starting out will find the early questions clarifying, and the later ones will show them where the work leads. Those who have been making work seriously for years will find the later questions stop them in their tracks.
Both experiences are equally useful.
WHAT THIS GUIDE IS NOT
No scores. No verdicts.
There are no right answers here. No rankings. No grades at the end. Only questions, and the space to sit with them.
Where you find yourself in these pages is where you are.
WHAT THIS GUIDE IS NOT
No scores. No verdicts.
There are no right answers here. No rankings. No grades at the end. Only questions, and the space to sit with them.
Where you find yourself in these pages is where you are.
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