In my experience as a pro-am photographer who knows a lot of other pro-am photographers, there is a difference.

I hate myself for saying something that sounds this pretentious, but women's photographs are more likely to be about the photographer and men's photographs are more likely to be about the thing photographed.

For instance, while my female studio partner is an amazing photographer who can shoot in many styles, her personal work is about telling a story that she wants to tell or highlighting something that she has created (even if the subject is a person, they are usually in some bizarre makeup or costume or pose or something that the photographer is highlighting: the model is basically a prop to tell the story she wants to tell.)

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Posted by: StM on March 23, 2009 9:56 AM