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Looking Up and Looking Down: How We Can Better the Photography Industry with Vanessa Joy

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Channel: Behind the Shutter · 2018 · Education

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I’m on an airplane leaving Las Vegas right now after speaking at the Mobile Beat DJ convention. Planes from Las Vegas are not the same as planes to Las Vegas. They’re much rowdier on the way there, but when I’m flying out of Sin City, I can usually get work done.

A speaker colleague of mine, Alan Berg, is here on the plane, and we’re talking about the speaking world. He’s invited me to check out the National Speakers Association (NSA). He says it’s the most open and welcoming community he’s a part of. As a speaker, he’s part of a lot of communities and has been to a lot of conventions. He says people at the NSA conventions are often looking for ways they can give rather than take. 

I smile when he tells me this. I want to be part of a community like that. My smile fades a little when I compare it to the photography world. In that community, I still see the bigger guys complain about the newbies, or the less successful throw a jealous eye toward the more successful.

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