Good advice. I watched an interesting webinar hosted byPhotoshelter the other day with photographer Tim Mantoani called Focus on Your Passion: Finding Yourself in Photography. Not all my type of imags but his words were inspiring and it was an interesting hour and a bit. He touched on a few things to think about when trying to find the right story/subject. He discussed the barriers that photographers tend to put infront of themselves - eg. 'If I only had the right camera/lens/lights/subject I could shoot this or that project'. His basic message was if you want to get out and create something, choose a subject you're passionate about and let this shine through, don't wait for it to happen. Start small and work your way up, sooner or later your opportunity will come to gain more commercial work.
His ongoing project Behind Photographs shot on a huge 20x24 Polaroid camera shows the person behind the many iconic images we all know and love.
Mary Ellen Mark
Elliott Erwitt
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