Image from Way Up North Stockholm 2025 by Maciej Suwalowski

Nobody gets good at this alone

Think back over 2026. Somewhere in there is a photographer who changed how you work.

Maybe they gave a talk and you drove home arguing with yourself the whole way. Maybe they looked at your portfolio and told you the truth about it. Maybe they just answered a daft message at midnight when a card was corrupting and you were close to tears.

Or maybe you have never met them. You just watch what they put out and it keeps moving the bar for you. That counts. It can be someone you know well, someone you have never spoken to, anyone at all.

Most of those people have no idea they did it. That is what we want to fix this week.