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Shoot For Your Soul, Not Your Ego

An inspirational lesson from a legendary photographer

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Gajan Balan
May 12, 2024
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If you’ve ever made an effort to study the history of photography, odds are you may have come across the work of Vivian Maier. A private, mild-mannered, nonmaterialistic woman that would go down as a one of the most prolific humanist photographers that ever lived.

I spent years studying her work; revisiting books time and time again. Maier’s archive is a…

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