by Otto | May 30, 2026 | Quote of the Day
“The most successful photographers treat their business like a business — not a hobby with a price tag.” — Joe Edelman Thirty days of quotes. Thirty different perspectives on what it means to do this work and do it well. And they all, in some form, come...
by Otto | May 29, 2026 | Quote of the Day
“You build a business by building relationships, not by chasing transactions.” — Lara Jade Every photographer who has ever refreshed their inbox waiting for a client to respond to a proposal understands what transaction-chasing feels like. You sent the...
by Otto | May 28, 2026 | Quote of the Day
“The places I go and the images I make are shaped by a need to understand the world.” — Chris Burkard Burkard doesn’t shoot landscapes. He explores them. The image is the artifact of a curiosity that drove him somewhere uncomfortable — a frozen...
by Otto | May 27, 2026 | Quote of the Day
“I want to get close. The closer I get, the more the picture reveals.” — Martin Schoeller Schoeller is famous for his extreme close-up portraits — faces filling the entire frame, every pore and line and expression unobscured. There’s nowhere to hide...
by Otto | May 26, 2026 | Quote of the Day
“I try to make the person feel that this is a safe environment — that I’m on their side.” — Platon Platon photographs heads of state. Vladimir Putin. Barack Obama. Colonel Gaddafi. People who have built entire careers around controlling how...
