Category: creativity

Ah, the old controversy of working for free. A guaranteed way to get any self-employed person’s blood flowing. I’ve read several posts and articles about this topic recently,

Long time readers of the blog will be familiar with my habit of creating a “Blackbox”.  Here’s the original post, here’s 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and here’s 2016:

OK, advance apologies for being patronising. “Oh great, Tom’s going to tell us all how to go round an exhibition, how very useful! I can’t wait until next

This shoot was an idea I’d been brewing for a while, and was about 75% formed, just waiting for a push to bring it to life.  When Sophie

Here’s an enjoyable bit of homework for you over the weekend – go and watch some beautiful films. I’m serious. About this time last year I was talking

I expect many people reading this post will be at least vaguely familiar with the “10 000 Hours” concept. It’s taken from a 1993 study and was popularised

At the start of the Millennium, one of the people I was assisting did me an enormous favour, one that I’m not sure at the time they realised

I get asked all the time for photography tips, usually by people just starting out. They expect me to come back with some technical advice, or a suggestion

Working in the field of commercial creativity, it can sometimes be very frustrating having to meet a client’s demands.  There’s often a huge temptation to think that if

It’s that time of year again, when I gather up my “BlackBox” and total everything up.  As I’ve mentioned in my recent series of posts (here, here, here