Something is changing.

This bonus episode is the announcement I've been putting off — partly because I wasn't sure how to say it, and partly because the timing is, as with most things in my life, sideways.

The Terrible Photographer is becoming The Terrible Creative.

Same show. Same voice. Same refusal to pretend I have it figured out. But the door is wider now — because the emails I've been getting for years have made something clear: the struggle we talk about here doesn't belong to photographers. It belongs to anyone trying to make honest work in a world that keeps asking why you bother.

In this episode I talk about why the name was right when it started, why it stopped fitting, and a handwritten letter from a ceramicist in Vermont that I've been carrying around in my bag for eight months. I also talk about the Impressionists, a twenty-two-year-old kid in Los Angeles who told me my work was terrible, and a brand manager who had feelings about a throw pillow.

Oh — and the book is done. Lessons From a Terrible Photographer is real and you can buy it right now.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

• Lessons From a Terrible Photographer — the book → https://www.terriblephotographer.com/the-book
• Jeff Lipsky, photographer → jefflipsky.com

LINKS

• Buy the book → https://www.terriblephotographer.com/the-book
• Support the show → https://www.terriblephotographer.com/support
• Subscribe to Pub Notes (the newsletter) → https://the-terrible-photographer.kit.com/223fe471fb
• The Terrible Photographer on Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/terriblephotographer/
• Patrick on Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/patrickfore/
• Email Patrick → [email protected]

The Terrible Creative is written, produced, and hosted by Patrick Fore. Music licensed through Epidemic Sound and Blue Dot Sessions. Recorded from my garage in San Diego, California.