{"id":219967,"date":"2026-01-06T17:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T17:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/219967\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T17:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T17:32:07","slug":"10-legendary-photographers-share-advice-for-budding-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/219967\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Legendary Photographers Share Advice for Budding Artists"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark<\/a> has put together an inspiring video of 10 \u201cworld-class\u201d photographers sharing advice to younger people. <\/p>\n

The five-minute video includes a mix of living and deceased photographers, all have achieved great things in the field. <\/p>\n

Paul Graham <\/p>\n

Go out. Start working. Make mistakes. Your work will be crap at first; it\u2019s fine. My work, every time I start something new, is junk. <\/p>\n

Martin Parr <\/p>\n

You\u2019re probably going to fail, so unless you\u2019re obsessed, unless you have, almost like a disease, you\u2019re not going to make it. So, unless you have that, forget it, just go get a job in a bar or something like that. <\/p>\n

Nan Goldin <\/p>\n

Don\u2019t think it\u2019s okay to live in your phone. You have a lot more to say than Instagram. And a lot to experience in the real world. <\/p>\n

Miyako Ishiuchi <\/p>\n

You have to be curious\u2026 If you take photos, it is not enough in itself. You need to take interest in other areas like literature, music, or film. Photography is just one part of a cultural whole. <\/p>\n

Elina Brotherus <\/p>\n

Often, young people tend to think too much and work too little. I think the secret is you just have to start. If you\u2019re a photographer, just go out and start taking pictures. Look at them, and they will tell you what the next picture has to be. <\/p>\n

Stephen Shore <\/p>\n

As I\u2019m thinking of this, I\u201dm thinking about how I\u2019ve lived my life without advice but what\u2019s worked is that there are times I feel I know what I\u2019m doing and I can get terrible reviews and I don\u2019t care because I feel like I know what I\u2019m doing. <\/p>\n

Barbara Kasten <\/p>\n

Young artists have to think about the future of their work, but they shouldn\u2019t get stuck on it. They shouldn\u2019t want it to be the end result of their efforts. Unfortunately, not everyone is going to be a superstar, but I never worked with that mind and I would hope a lot of young people don\u2019t work with that mind \u2014 If it comes, it comes. <\/p>\n

Anton Corbijn <\/p>\n

There has to be an element of that person in the photograph, but there also has to be an element of the photographer in there because the cameras are basically all the same; it\u2019s the person holding the camera that can make the difference. <\/p>\n

Collier Schorr <\/p>\n

Photographers can talk a lot about what seems like a certain kind of power, and a certain kind of invisibility, you\u2019re in charge, and you actually own the picture, but your life is about what is in front of you, so you never see yourself, in a sense. <\/p>\n

Ulay <\/p>\n

If I would give any suggestions, don\u2019t go to the art academy. Don\u2019t go too often to art galleries and museums because these are ready-made. If you want and need inspiration, go behind central station. <\/p>\n

Currently showing at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is an exhibition by artist Jon Rafman, who has been collecting strange moments from Google Street View<\/a> since 2007. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark has put together an inspiring video of 10 \u201cworld-class\u201d photographers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1665,442,498,499,500,2046,501,156,36996,116220,132464,111,139,69,132465,2590],"class_list":{"0":"post-219967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-advice","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-artsdesign","13":"tag-career","14":"tag-design","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-guidance","17":"tag-martinparr","18":"tag-nangoldin","19":"tag-new-zealand","20":"tag-newzealand","21":"tag-nz","22":"tag-photographyadvice","23":"tag-stephenshore"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}