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187 - Turn Off Instagram: Building a Photography Style That's Actually Yours
Street and portrait photographer Tom Hoops joins us to talk about his unplanned path into photography, why he builds his portrait style around rawness instead of polish, and why he founded The Underexposed Community.
In this episode:
Tom's origin story: picking up a camera to shoot reference photos for paintings — and never going back to painting
The early Flickr community (including photographers like Jack Davidson and Brett Walker) that shaped his eye
Why he tells photographers starting out to avoid Instagram, other photographers' work, and how-to books until they've built their own body of…
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