“Reminding yourself the reason you started allows you to keep fighting at the hardest moments, and if you have that purpose, you also learn to be better at your craft as you continue your purpose.” Adam Schluter, is a global portrait photographer who took more than 1000 portraits from 20 different countries while riding trains and deciding to talk to every person he met. Finding opportunities and sponsorship as a photographer Adam has a wide experience in photography, his passion led him to work with many international companies, like National Geographic, HBO, Speak Up Productions, Visual Artists Group and many more! His big break was when he reached out to a company to sponsor him to travel the whole PCH, from the southern...
Adam Schluter is a versatile photographer, who’s traveled to around 20 countries in the last 3 years. You can find his work on “connecting to happiness”. He’s taken portraits, pictures of protests and landscapes all around the world. While traveling, he spends 15-16 hours a day walking around towns, living on trains, and walking up to strangers to say hello and ask for their photographs. As an artist with an interesting start in the photography world, Adam has a great deal of experience that can inspire many photographers in pursuing their craft. 3 tips for pursuing your craft and finding inspiration 1. Make sure you know the reason that you’re pursuing art. Cause you’re gona have constant disappointments when you...
“Photography is truth” is Richard’s bio caption on Instagram. Richard Ashia is a 24-year-old photographer and graphic artist from Ghana. He shares with us his key ingredient to getting inspired as a photographer. We gotta say, from scrolling through his Scopio profile, we can feel how grounded and rooted he is. He loves taking pictures of humans; in their most vulnerable states, in their comfort zone, and just make them the main subject of his photographs. But as anything else, to take good pictures, you need inspiration. How to create inspirational photography in 3 steps Richard shares with us his go-to’s for photography inspiration 1. Music Who of us doesn’t like listening to music? Whether you’re feeling sad, happy, depressed, nervous, agitated,...
The best way to get to know who you are or what type of impression you make is by meeting yourself. But that is not really possible. What if I tell you, there’s a way that almost gets you there? A way to meet yourself! That is through photography, or any type of visual art, for that matter. How many times have you looked at yourself in a picture, and realized things about your unique self that you have not seen before. When you become aware of yourself, you slowly grow self-esteem and confidence. That is beautiful! Improving Self Esteem and Confidence through Photography “Photography actually helps to improve your self-love and self-esteem.”, says Luisa Carvaja. Photography is a unique opportunity to...
Melding in with the with the rest of the world is where the fire, passion, and creativity stop. Doubting your unique self, because your likes and dislikes don't seem to fall in line with the crowds. Wishing you could be a little more normal, so that you no longer have to feel alone. These are all things that creatives have to confront everyday and in a world where people are quick to judge or call someone strange for thinking differently can often times be what forces someone to reject who they are and even trade in their unique superpowers to do something a bit more 'normal' But being a photographer or being a creative never was about blending in, it...
