The Terrible Creative
Patrick Fore
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Playing Hurt - How Professional Creatives Perform at Full Capacity When Everything Goes Wrong
There is a version of this job that looks incredible from the outside. The gear. The clients. The portfolio. What nobody sees is what it costs to produce it.In this episode I'm talking about the part…
Death Grip - Google AI Just Changed How Clients Find You. Here's What It Can't Replace.
Something shifted last week. Not dramatically. Quietly, the way things in this industry tend to change — while you're working, while you're trying to keep the phone ringing.Google's AI Mode is…
Mute - You've Spent Years Getting Good. Do You Have Anything Left to Say?
There is a man standing in a clearing in Arkansas with a yellow guitar, singing about insulin prices to nobody in particular.Three million people found him. Not because of the production value.…
Clown Nose - What the Creator Economy Actually Costs a Working Creative
There's a composite photographer in this episode named Nate. His details have been changed. His situation has not.This episode is about the creator economy — what it actually costs, who it was…
Terrible Conversations - Tom Wright - Tom Wright on Creative Work and Photography
Terrible Conversations w/ Tom WrightTom Wright is a photography consultant based in Burnley, UK. He calls himself a phototherapist, and no, he's not a doctor. But photographers that work with him…
Stop Being A Tool - Why Creatives Were Never Just Useful
We’ve spent a century conditioning ourselves to believe that if we aren’t "producing," we aren't "valuable." But in 2026, the machines can out-produce us all. This episode is about The Great…
The Cost of Getting Good - The Cost of Getting Good - How Success Becomes a Creative Trap for Creatives
Getting good at your craft is supposed to be the goal. But for a lot of us, competence became the cage. This episode is about the feedback loop nobody warns you about: the better you get, the harder…
Subterranean - On Obsession, Part II
Where does creative obsession actually come from? Not how to manufacture it. Not how to find it on a vision board. Where it actually lives. How it grows underground without your permission. And what…
Obsessed - Finding Your Creative Voice When the Algorithm Rewards Everyone Else's
What separates a photographer who makes important work from one who just makes good photos? It might not be talent. It might not be gear. It might be something harder to name and harder to fake.This…
The Unknown - The Version of Yourself Nobody Has Seen Yet
This is the last one.Four episodes. Four quadrants. Four different ways of asking the same question: who are you — really — when nobody's grading you?In the final episode of the Johari Window series,…
The Facade - The Gap Between What You Show and What's Actually Driving the Work
Episode 59: "The Facade" The Johari Window Series — Part ThreeSome weeks Patrick knows exactly why he's making this podcast.Other weeks he almost quits.This week he almost quit.In Episode 59, Patrick…
The Tell — Self-Handicapping, and What Everyone Around You Already Knows
Everyone around you already knows.Your clients see it. The people who've worked alongside you see it. The people who love you have probably tried to name it — in ways you found reasons to dismiss.In…
The Glass House - Visibility, the Johari Window, and Why Being Seen Isn't the Same as Being Known
There's a difference between being visible and being known. Most of us have confused the two.In this episode, Patrick is sitting at a networking event in San Diego when a graphic designer asks him a…
The Audit - Was Your Work Already Replaceable Before AI Arrived?
The fear underneath every AI conversation in photography right now isn't really about the future. It's recognition.In this episode, Patrick sits down with the hard question nobody in the industry is…
Widening The Frame - Welcome to the Terrible Creative
Something is changing.This bonus episode is the announcement I've been putting off — partly because I wasn't sure how to say it, and partly because the timing is, as with most things in my life,…
Cosmic Cruelty - Freelancing, Isolation & Why the Universe Feels Like It’s Against You.
There's a moment in Season 11 of Alone where a man named Dub — forty days into the Canadian wilderness, starving, alone — watches a bull moose stand just out of reach on the other side of a freezing…
The Cliff - Why Freelancing Has No Floor
Every job has a floor. A salary. A review cycle. Someone in authority who tells you you're doing fine, keep going.Freelancing has none of that. There's no feedback mechanism that tells you you're…
The Mask - The Hidden Cost of Performing Expertise You Actually Have
A photographer friend once gave me three words of advice that I've never been able to use: just be yourself.Not because the advice is wrong. But because it assumes a stable, available self waiting…
Heresies - The Hyde - How Photography Is Used for Sexual Exploitation
London. 1886. A respected doctor stands before a mirror and drinks a potion he swore he would only use once. He doesn’t grow horns or sprout claws. He simply becomes... lighter. The weight of…
Heresies - The Corpse - How Instagram Trained Photographers to Be Perfect, Then Called It Boring
I posted a question on Threads: "Where are you posting your images these days?"The answers were scattered. Glass. Grainery. Pixelfed. Substack. Flickr, somehow. Very few said Instagram.There is no…
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