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This is one of the more serious interviews with Joe, who’s generally very fun and jovial – and I feel super grateful to get the opportunity to pull out some of the lessons he’s learned from so many decades in the business of photography. There’s simply no other way to learn this stuff other than being the trenches for the better part of a lifetime and looking back on it, and that’s most of what you’ll hear in this interview. It’s way too easy to miss the forest for the trees, so I would highly encourage you to use this as an opportunity to take a step back and look at the bigger picture of your own life. I firmly believe introspection is one of your most valuable tools, and this episode is super fuel for it.

 

• He talks about something a lot of people think or claim to possess but not so many actually do, which is tenacity. He has some great stories about being – as he says – “pitbull when he has a camera in his hands” and doing whatever it takes to get the shot
• We’ve talked about the vital role of failure many times on this show and I love what Joe has to say about it – about how his failure shooting a horse race early in his career is specifically what set him up for success later in his career on projects like shooting the launch of the space shuttle
• We get into something that’s very rarely discussed, which is the cost of being a super high achiever – some brutally honest discussion about the tradeoffs Joe’s made in his own career, such as the fact that traveling so much as a photographer meant that he missed a good chunk of his children’s formative years. Very real and raw stuff.