Goodbye, Instagram?

Goodbye, Instagram?

Several authors and creatives I follow recently announced, with fanfare, that they are leaving Instagram… only to confess in the next breath that they are, actually, just giving the keys to a member of a team who will still continue posting important updates on their...
Merry Christmas from Bethlehem

Merry Christmas from Bethlehem

I’ll start with a confession. I don’t celebrate Christmas. Not really. Hashtag awkward. I’m sure pretended to for years, in an effort to assimilate, to be like everyone else. But if I’m honest with myself, I don’t actually care all that much. I grew up in the Soviet...
Tips for attending a portfolio review

Tips for attending a portfolio review

‘Tis the season for looking back at the year past – and planning for the year to come. For me, it includes considering which projects I want to start showing to people at portfolio reviews, to get important feedback and also to get myself and my work in front of...
Canaries in the mines

Canaries in the mines

Frankly, I don’t know what to write. I’m battling a low level cold and, you know, the crisis of humanity, so all my thoughts are incoherent, fragmented. Nothing I can say or do feels important right now, but I’m trying to fight this feeling, getting back to what I...
Maria, Alexandra, Constantine…

Maria, Alexandra, Constantine…

At the end of last year I took a memoir writing class. I wasn’t – and still am not – planning on writing a memoir, but I wanted to (a) get back to more creative writing which I loved when I was younger (and which I abandoned out of fear of sharing my work...
Marketing on the spectrum

Marketing on the spectrum

I recently came across a question in one of the photography groups I’m in about marketing on the spectrum. The anonymous poster shared that they tried to do ALL. THE. THINGS. to market their photography business: networking groups, door-to-door marketing, Instagram...