Summary: <br> How do you consider yourself as a photographer in terms of the work you do? Is it important to tell your viewers how you define your work as being a particular kind or made with a particular camera, or does the work you make define you instead? <br> <br> <br> <br> If I make more images, like the one in this post, am I a #lunarphotographer or a #GreatLakesPhotographer? If I shoot it with #film or with #digital, how does that change what the image says? I think my intent as a photographer matters more than the label or the gear and if you make photographs that are genuinely yours, your own personal hashtag will write itself.<br> <br> <br> <br> Rather than think of myself as this kind of photographer or that kind of photographer, I prefer to think of myself as photographer – I’m interested in subject matter as it presents itself to me, or as I think of it relative to things I’ve read, music I’ve listened to, places I’ve gone…<br> <br> <br> <br> Rather than pigeonholing yourself into a particular genre of image-making, or that you use a particular kind of camera, think rather of how the work you make defines who you are and let that be your “hashtag.”<br> <br> <br> <br> Play Podcast:<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Links for this Episode:<br> <br> <br> <br> * <a href="https://photoplacegallery.com/">PhotoPlace Gallery in </a><a href="https://photoplacegallery.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Vermont</a>* <a href="https://photoplacegallery.com/online-juried-shows/composed-2/gallery/exhibition-gallery" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Composed Exhibition</a>* <a href="https://photoplacegallery.com/online-juried-shows/composed-2/detail" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Jeff’s essay about the work</a>* <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/jcurto/" target="_blank">My Instagram Feed</a> – Follow me and I’ll follow back* <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.facebook.com/JeffCurtoPodcasts" target="_blank">Podcast Facebook Page</a><br> <br> <br> <br> <a href="https://i0.wp.com/www.cameraposition.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/EH_spring_2021-307.jpg"></a>Blue Hour Moonset – Lake Superior – photograph by Jeff Curto<br> <br> <br> <br> <br>
