Amateur Photographer

Viewpoint Peter Dench

When do you become a photographer? When you receive your first camera? When you graduate from college or university? When you receive your first professional commission, sell your first print, publish your first photobook, reach1,000 YouTube subscribers or decide to watermark your Instagram posts?

On a recent visit to the hairdressers, to have what hair I have left cut,

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