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Steve McCurry Talks About How Important Relationships are to Photographers

Chris Gampat
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12/23/2014
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Last Updated on 12/23/2014 by Chris Gampat

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Steve McCurry has been all over the world and has learned more about travelling than most photographers will probably ever learn in their entire life. One of the most important things that he says that he learned has to do with relationships with your teammates and the people who guide you around. Steve said that these relationships can last many, many years and even a lifetime.

Though photographer tutorials often talk about how to use a camera and create better images, professional photographers know that you spend the least amount of time behind the camera and a lot of it being face to face with people and interacting with them.

These words by Steve are spoken about in the context of travel and photojournalistic photography–but it can also apply to event photography, wedding photography, portrait photography, etc. One of the most important things to do as a photographer is to build your network.

Steve McCurry’s video on the importance of relationships to photographers is after the jump.

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.