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How to Pivot in Your Photography

To ‘pivot’– one of the good concepts which have come out of Silicon Valley. I think it is a great notion to apply to our photography and artistic pursuits:

#nogenre photography

A big thing:

Genres in photography are a trap.

Don’t brand yourself into one narrow type of genre of photography. Just stick with a consistent aesthetic (black and white), and shoot whatever interests you.

Why are we afraid of being ‘inconsistent’?

My theory:

People get a power-trip when they think they can ‘understand’ you.

Better to pave your own path as a photographer; to seek to please and delight your own visual senses and eyes!