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Episode 60 - Stop Waiting to Feel Ready (opens the original)
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Stop Waiting to Feel Ready Speaker: Wait, wait, no, I'm not ready yet. Speaker: Uh, oh, we're on? Speaker: Oh. Speaker: Today, I wanna talk about something that stops a lot of very talented people, waiting. Speaker: Waiting until you feel ready. Speaker: Waiting into your work is better. Speaker: Waiting until you have the right tools, waiting until you have more money, waiting until your website is perfect, waiting until you have enough followers. Speaker: But there's a bigger one today. Speake
Episode 59 - What If They Hate It The Courage to Create Anyways (opens the original)
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What If They Hate It? The Courage to Create Anyways Speaker: Fear, Courage, and Creative Breakthroughs Speaker: Hello, everyone. Welcome back to the podcast. This is your host, Matthew Jordan Smith. I want to welcome you to the Photography Breakthrough Podcast. And today, I wanna talk about fear. Not the kind of fear that comes when you're physically in danger. We all know about that Speaker: And maybe right now you're, you're feeling fearful about things that are happening around in the world t
Episode 58 - The Photographer’s Gaze and Represent (opens the original)
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Speaker: Hello and welcome back to the show. Speaker: I'm photographer Matthew Jordan Smith Today we're going to talk about representation Today we're gonna talk about representation, race, power, and the photographer's gaze Let me begin with a question that every photographer should ask. Speaker: Who has the power when a photograph is made? Speaker: If we think back in history to images that we can all relate to right away, or many of us anyway Like the picture of the napalm girl from Vietnam.
Episode 57 - Seeing is believing (opens the original)
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Speaker: A few months ago, I did a shoot with a friend who came to visit. Speaker: The first time I photographed her was about 20 years ago, and back then, we had a lot of fun. Speaker: We used an incredible makeup artist. His name is Samuel Paul. Speaker: He is truly an artist, a painter who is also an incredible makeup artist. Speaker: Back in the day, we'd come up with incredible ideas, and no matter how crazy they were, he could make them happen. Speaker: He could paint a butterfly on a girl
Episode 56 - Human Reality vs AI Image Production (opens the original)
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Speaker: Welcome to the debate. You know, when we look at an old silver gelatin photograph, we instinctively trust it as a sort of physical fossil. Speaker 2: Right. Yeah, like a tangible artifact. Speaker: Exactly. We assume a physical law occurred, right? Light from a real sun or a real flashbulb bounced off a real physical object, passed through a piece of glass, and burned a permanent record into a chemical surface. Speaker 2: Mm-hmm. Speaker: It is essentially a physical footprint of a mome
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