Work in Progress with Antonina Mamzenko

Work in Progress with Antonina Mamzenko

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Work in Progress with Antonina Mamzenko
Work in Progress with Antonina Mamzenko
Photography and Substack

Photography and Substack

plus a few photos from the weekend

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Sep 25, 2023
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A visitor at the Evelyn Hofer exhibition at The Photographers Gallery — London, September 2023

When I first got into photography back in 2008-2009, I started with a blog. I shared photos from my travels, my first experiments with photographing people (something I thought I’d never actually do - too shy, too introverted), wrote about meetups with other photographers, and other random things that I wanted to talk about - and I didn’t really care if anyone was listening. I was geeking out on my newfound passion. This was joyful, organic and allowed me to build a community and get my first paying clients.

Over time, that blog (and the website) morphed into a full time photography business and, to be honest, all the joy got sucked out of blogging. I was (over)thinking about SEO, about sharing my only best work (and therefore sharing very little - impostor syndrome, anyone?), agonised over whether I should post something unrelated to family photography (because I’m not a one trick pony… but i…

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