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Cake day: October 26th, 2023

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  • Forget all the people saying you can’t charge anything — lots of teens do work for money. You can’t charge as much as a professional but that’s fine, you could at least charge as much as you’d earn working at a fast food restaurant or babysitting!

    I freelanced since I was 14 years old, and it gave me invaluable experience in working with clients, negotiating, delivering on what I promised, and handling money.

    And I got shafted by clients, like everyone does, which was good in a way because I learned a lot from it when stakes were very low and mostly it just hurt my feelings.

    Yes you should use as much time as you can learning and trying lots of things — for cheap or free — because that’ll give you insight into what you do and don’t love, that’ll help you as you grow up and have to make adult decisions about college and career.

    But there’s no reason you can’t earn some money while you’re doing it!



  • Some not mentioned or not repeated:

    • Tatiana Hopper
    • Mat Marrash
    • Jess Hobbs
    • Eva Polak
    • attic darkroom
    • Justin Phillip
    • Teo Crawford
    • Jamie Windsor
    • Lucy Lumen
    • Shutter Slaps
    • Juan Buhler
    • William Sheepskin
    • Captured by Sam
    • Analog Insights
    • aows
    • Eclectachrome
    • Imitative Photography
    • One Month Two Cameras
    • Michael Widell
    • Mathieu Stern
    • Quintavius Oliver
    • Mark Holtze
    • Annie Barton
    • In Your Fayes
    • Ivan Chow
    • Steve O’nions
    • Frederik Trovatten

    I look especially for people who aren’t the same straight white American/Canadian/UK guys. Obviously there are a lot on my list who are exactly that and that’s great, they’re great, but the further away from that overwhelming group I go, the more interesting things get.

    I also get a LOT out of channels that discuss films and filmography — as in movies — and other design/culture stuff.





  • It’s because they’re full of older-middle-aged to elderly white men with little other outlet (bc they are jerks) who are focused on their camera brand as an identity.

    I’ve never experienced this in person, because those types either don’t show up to things in person, or they’re too cowardly to act that way in person. Even when I was a 14yo girl hanging out at the camera store, all the dudes were at least polite to me, most of them very friendly and supportive.

    Non-brand-specific forums for more niche interests like manual focus lenses, film development, medium format and large format, etc are also more polite and friendly, collaborative. Even the very old-school forums like mflenses and getdpi.

    I agree Reddit’s better because it’s more casual but also because the audience is younger. Not that young people (esp men) can’t be enormous jerks about their special interest — live voice online gaming? never! — but they often have other things to do.