Shoot For Your Soul, Not Your Ego

An inspirational lesson from a legendary photographer

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…