Listen "Duncan Petrie - The Yearning"
Episode Synopsis
TakeawaysTake everyone seriously but yourself.Making art is an extreme sport.Do the thing you'd wonder about the most if you didn't do it.If you can’t see a way to solve a problem you have to trust that you’ll figure it out eventually. So don’t walk away, just keep looking.MentionedDuncan PetrieDuncan Petrie on InstagramBirds with Hats on InstagramDuncan Petrie on YouTubeBrian Eno on Broken RecordCamera Lucida by Roland BarthesSouth West Coast PathJ. R. R. TolkienDuncan is a photographer using spare, striking composition and the best natural light to emphasize emotion over the literal image and truth over objectivity, in hopes that he might one day capture how it feels to truly see.During our conversation Duncan talks about Sudoku and its relationship to being creative; being afraid of doing something poorly; why beginning is the hardest part; fear of stagnation; the relationship between good photography and enthusiasm and the magic of observing the little details that imply so much more than what they actually contain.
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