what to do when you’re stuck

in no particular order. 1) if working digitally, make a copy project. then mutilate it. mercilessly. if the project has sat for too long, if you've stared at it too much, it has become fixed in your mind. you need to change it to make it flexible in your imagination, get it unstuck. 2) take the thing you know you hate about the piece, and amplify it. i did this with a student recently - she has an acute sense of what she dislikes about her photography. reviewing each photograph, i asked her what she really hated about each one. together, we pushed that element - usually through cropping. the hated aspect, when transformed and amplified, made much stronger, clearer images that she loved. 3) cut out the parts you love the most . . . … Continue Reading →