Artistic Voice vs. Technique: Which One Actually Makes Work Memorable

A few months ago I sat next to a much younger artist at a small print fair in Miami. Her booth was two tables down from mine, and during a slow stretch of the afternoon we started talking the way vendors do when nobody is buying anything. She told me she had spent the last […]

Why Repeating Yourself Might Be the Most Underrated Skill in Art

Years ago, a friend who had spent decades as a working photographer told me something that annoyed me at the time. She said the biggest difference between an amateur and a professional wasn’t talent, technique, or even taste. It was that professionals were willing to make the same photograph, in some form, over and over […]