Beat the Machine

When you talk about the machine, being pushed along by cogs and wheels towards the common fate of graduation, this is what comes to mind. Look at all those photographers, all starting from the same point, the same perspective. Like I said on the blog, when you take the responsibility of your “assembly” away from the machine and put it in your own hands that’s when you have the potential to truly do something great.

When you do that you become the guy with options, with the body of work and the reputation that lets you make the kind of images that are keeping you up at night right now. When you put forth the extra effort and really, really commit yourself to being a great photojournalist and not just another guy with camera, then you become the guy on the other side of the track. You make the pictures that people really notice, really remember, and that change the world.