Crazy Wisdom

Crazy Wisdom

What can we learn about creativity from taking pictures with an analog camera? - Christopher Michel

January 17, 2020 · 55 min

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About this episode

I sit down with Christopher Michel to talk about photography, creativity, stress of talking to strangers, taking pictures all over the world, the cultural complexity of taking pictures of strangers in different countries and a lot more. 

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Episode transcript
Christopher Michael00:00

It's almost like photography is good. Photography is necessary but not sufficient to be successful in any of these fields. This is true, I think, in many, many fields. It's not unique to photography, but I do think a lot of people have this, you know, maybe they believe that by making good photographs that will be sufficient. And I just don't think that it is. And, you know, that's disappointing because not every photographer, not every great photographer really likes marketing their work. A lot of them don't want to do the hustle of, like, you know, working with gallerists and selling their prints and framing, going around in shows. They don't like promoting themselves. And this is, you know, one of the things about life that's a little bit unfair is sometimes the world's best people don't self promote. And I find it to be a paradox. You know, my favorite people in the world, I'm promoting because they're not promoting themselves.

Stewart Alsop III01:09

Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom podcast. Today I interviewed Christopher Michael. Christopher is a former startup CEO and many other things. But right now his passion is photography,

Stewart Alsop III01:22

and he's very good at it.

Stewart Alsop III01:24

And before we did this episode, he actually took me around San Francisco and we took pictures of people. And it was really interesting to see his style and the way that he

Stewart Alsop III01:34

kind of got people to open up.

Stewart Alsop III01:35

And it was really beautiful to witness. And so it was very great to then interview him. And this is the result of that, of that conversation. So I hope you enjoy it. If you do, please find us on itunes, Spotify, Stitcher, or any of the other podcasting platforms and go ahead and give us a review and subscribe. And I'm on Twitter ewartalsopiii. My DMs are open. I'd love to hear from you about this episode or any of the other episodes I'm publishing. Hope you enjoy it. Please let me know what you think. Have a great day.

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