It’s Still Just a Tool

About this episode

Jeffery reflects on his relationship with photography tools and the tendency to fetishize them.

The other day, I was going through my archive of work ahead of a website redesign, and I found a blog post that I wrote in 2014 that’s sort of an homage to my all-time favorite camera and how after finally acquiring one, I couldn’t bring myself to actually use it. Ten years later, I think the post is still relevant to how some photographers and artists have a tendency to fetishize the tools they use. I know that was me once. For what it’s worth, I think photography is unique in that, because ...

Topics covered

• photography
• tools
• art

Keywords

• camera
• fetishize
• archive
• blog post

Mentioned in this episode

Products: camera

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