Why Persistence Beats Portfolio: A Working Photographer's Breakdown of Joel Grimes' Career Advice

Why Persistence Beats Portfolio: A Working Photographer's Breakdown of Joel Grimes' Career Advice

I used to think that if I just got good enough, the work would come. Shoot more, edit better, post consistently, and clients would eventually find me. It took an embarrassingly long time, and more than a few months of tumbleweeds in my inbox, before I started questioning that assumption. The technical side of photography is learnable. The business side is where most of us quietly struggle and rarely talk about it.