Things Photographers Are Tired of Hearing (And What They Reveal About How People See Our Work)

Things Photographers Are Tired of Hearing (And What They Reveal About How People See Our Work)

There’s a particular kind of fatigue that sets in after you’ve been doing this long enough. It’s not the 4am alarms or the cold water over your boots or the six-hour drives into weather that has no intention of cooperating. It’s the comments. The well-meaning, head-scratching, occasionally maddening things people say when they look at your photographs. After twenty years of sharing work, teaching workshops, and selling prints, I’ve heard most of them more times than I can count.