The Psychological Trap Quietly Destroying Your Photography - Moments of Mood 3.4

About this episode

Matt Jacob explores the psychological impact of the need for proof in photography after a period of enforced stillness due to a road accident.

In this Moments of Mood episode of The MOOD Podcast, Matt returns after a road accident left him physically immobilised for several weeks, unable to photograph, travel, or work, and uses that enforced stillness to examine one of the quietest but most destructive reflexes in modern photography: the need for proof. What happens to your photography, and to you as a photographer, when the images you make never leave the hard drive? When the algorithm stops rewarding your work? When self-doubt cre...

People in this episode

Host: Matt Jacob

Topics covered

• photography
• self-doubt
• mental health
• creativity
• digital media

Keywords

• photography
• self-doubt
• digital photography
• mental health
• creativity
• proof
• algorithm

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