The Practicing Photographer Quotes

“Follow the instructions. If you’re building a portfolio to send to some sort of adjudicated event — a school or contest, for example — then be certain that you’ve followed every instruction to the letter. When you’re a judge sitting in front of a stack of 200 portfolios, your first pass will not be to find great work, it will be to find any reason to eliminate someone.”
― Ben Long, The Practicing Photographer: Essays on Developing Your Photographic Practice

“accountants, for example, have probably had more impact on the world in the last fifteen years than anyone we usually consider to be creative.”
― Ben Long, The Practicing Photographer: Essays on Developing Your Photographic Practice