NURTURING CREATIVITY | Failure
Failure is important. Photographers often feel pressure to produce portfolio-quality work with every shoot. This pressure produces so many fears: the fear of wasting your time, the fear of wasting your team members’ time, anxiety about wasted resources, the terror of being judged as not good enough. As a result, a lot of people are blocked from making work with the things that they have around them. They have built up all these ideas around what a picture HAS to be instead of just getting on with it and making SOMETHING.
Being comfortable with failure relieves that pressure, freeing you up to make work that is more liberated. When I say failure, I’m not talking about not trying; I’m talking about instances when ...
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