Your Best Work Starts When You Stop Trying To Control It with Pen Densham

About this episode

Pen Densham discusses the importance of persistence in creativity and the role of allies in the artistic process.

Send us Fan Mail The ideas that haunt you are often the ones you never tried and that’s a 100% failure rate. Pen Densham joins us to unpack a creative life built on persistence more than certainty, from early hardship and foster care to a career in filmmaking that eventually expands into intimate, almost meditative nature photography. Along the way, we keep coming back to one practical question every artist faces: who are your allies when your idea is still small and breakable? We dig into t...

People in this episode

Host: Alexia Melocchi

Guest: Pen Densham

Topics covered

• creativity
• filmmaking
• nature photography
• persistence
• artistic collaboration

Keywords

• creativity
• filmmaking
• nature photography
• persistence
• artistic allies
• foster care
• career

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