Photo essay / Aug 24, 2015
How to Love Your Haters
Read as a Google Doc or download as PDF. — Dear Ming, I wanted to write you this letter regarding all the trolls and “haters†you have been getting over on your blog. I …
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Photo essay / May 4, 2015
The Only Way to Become Indifferent to Criticism: Become Indifferent to Praise as Well
I love attention. I hate criticism and negativity. I want everybody to love me, to love my photography, and my writing. Contrary to popular belief, I actually have very thin skin when it comes …
Photo essay / Feb 23, 2015
How to Overcome Self-Criticism in Street Photography
I think in photography it is good to have some self-criticism. If you want to be the best photographer you possibly can, you want to be more discerning about your images. You want to …
Photo essay / Oct 10, 2014
“Letters from a Street Photographer” #2: How to Deal with Negative Criticism (Part 1/2)
For this chapter in my on-going “Letters from a Street Photographer†book, I wanted to write a topic that I am very familiar with– how to deal with negative criticism (and thrive and benefit …
Photo essay / Dec 22, 2013
On Criticism and Street Photography
Photos in this article are from my Gallo Boxing Series in Michigan. You can see all the GoPro POV videos on YouTube here. “To try to please everybody is to please nobody” – Publilius …