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# TIME LightBox: How to Survive Your Portfolio Review

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_Published 2016-04-01. Photo editors and experts share their tips on how to successfully present your work at portfolio reviews_


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## Transcript

What's for sale, is you as talent. You show up, you look great, you're clear- eyed, and I'm taking it all in. Do I wanna go forward in life with You. You don't want me to be a representative. You don't want to be your best friend. You don't want me to be your critic. You want me to be engaged. Cuz then I can be all of those things. [ MUSIC ] To me it's about the work. Present your most sincere work, not A little bit of this and a little bit of that. 30, 40 images is probably good. Interest me, seduce me, in a half dozen pictures. When you're talking about the picture, if you have to explain why this is a good picture because of something that happened to you When you were taking the picture then it probably doesn't work.

I think there's an art to talking just enough to sort of allow the viewer to access the work. But not so much that the words are overpowering the images. You don't wanna oversell. You don't need to. This isn't a job interview. Why in the world have you come to me if all you're gonna do is talk? It's toxic. I can just feel the energy drain out of me. Shut up. Shut up. Shut up. [ MUSIC ]. I don't think it's a bad idea to actually write out your thoughts ahead of time. Being personal is often what's most interesting, you know? This is a, a personal endeavor. Personal journey. And you're gonna have to develop a thick skin in order to do it.

Just try to be open to criticism. Of course you're entitled to disagree, but the portfolio review is not a Forum for an argument. It's a forum for the photographer to learn. It's a balancing act right. You have to be able to listen to people and take constructive criticism, but also stay true to your own vision.

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