About this episode

Matt Jacob explores the concept of finding one's creative voice in photography without the pressure of developing a signature style.

In this Moments of Mood episode I sit with a single photograph from my own archive, one I made by accident in under ten seconds, and use it to unpack an idea Cristina Mittermeier gave me: that the photographer is not a messenger but a membrane, a semi-permeable skin whose job is to let a conversation pass between the subject and the stranger who will one day stand in front of the print. I look at why the pressure to have a signature style is muting your photography, why your creative voice is...

People in this episode

Host: Matt Jacob

Topics covered

• photography
• creative voice
• signature style
• artistic expression
• self-discovery

Keywords

• photography
• creative voice
• signature style
• Cristina Mittermeier
• artistic expression
• self-improvement

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