#14 SHOOT WHAT YOU LOVE
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Today we muse over the question many professionals ask themselves; “Am I enjoying what I shoot? Am I fulfilled? Do I love the subject? Is this what I was meant to do?”
We introduce you to someone who faced the ‘shoot what you know’ suggestion by an acquaintance head on, and from that conversation, changed her photographic life’s direction to do exactly that and work with subject matter she is wildly passionate about. Jo-Anne McArthur is an award-winning photographer. She’s an author and a speaker on the subject of our relationship with animals. She is an activist, but not didactic, she wants you to understand how our behaviour affects the world without you turning away from pictures that are not necessarily the most comfortable to look at.
Her long tail project We Animals studies this subject and over the last 22 years her work has taken her to over 60 countries. Since 1998, her work has taken her to over sixty countries. In 2019 she founded We Animals Media. But equally she uses irony and humour to engage with you. Jo-Anne McArthur is today’s Photography Daily guest.
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In October 2018 award-winning photographer Jo-Anne McArthur joined Soapbox and Animal Equality for an evening event at the Lush Studio in Soho, London.