Video Tutorials
What Empathy Actually Looks Like in Documentary Photography (Lessons from Jim Mortram)
There’s a question I get asked constantly on my Sunday morning photo walks: “How do you get strangers to actually let you photograph them?” My answer used to be pretty surface-level. Smile, be friendly, introduce yourself. But those are tactics, not a foundation. It wasn’t until I sat with this Sean Tucker tutorial featuring documentary photographer Jim Mortram that I found the right word for what actually makes that kind of photography work.