YOUNG Photographers Take the BEST Photos!?

all right so let's talk about this do photographers take their best pictures at the beginning of their career and I recently uh found this when I was editing I don't want to brag but my podcast with Martin Parr uh and I found this uh he he said it in a sense why do you think uh photographers take their best pictures at the beginning of their careers because they have this raw energy and we kind of continued talking uh about other stuff and I didn't really hit a chance to react to that question but also at that time I wasn't quite sure what I would say about that because there's this notion that people like Master photographers right like Katya brazon uh the the the man jumping over the puddle uh is his best photo right and he took it like at the very beginning of his career and then Martin pars I think it's Last Resort or one of those uh his first book is considered to be and he even said it in an interview and that it's uh it's his work that he will probably you know never produce anything better than this and then you have other photographers like uh I don't know maybe Robert Kappa we can't really tell because he died pretty young uh but you know definitely other photographers who kind of point to uh their uh work uh at the beginning stage of uh their career and say like hey I this is this is what uh I did and it was my best work and I have to disagree with uh Martin Parr on this one because he said something like it is because they have the raw energy when they're starting and I think the problem is something and bear with me unless until I I get this explained is that their best work is considered some of their great work right and basically long story short is I think it is considered this notion exists here is because they did not reinvent themselves enough right with uh Martin Parr we have his his first book and then the second book and third book and then he published I don't know 200 books many books part when he first popped up with his style it was something new it was something fresh and people were like wow this is really you know new and this is unique original and those are the people like let's say also so lighter who kind of end up defining their own style in the sense that then you took a photo of a rainy window and people are like wow this is really uh very so lighter-ish kind of photo and uh now think about it if they did not start if they did not take the first buddy of work we kind of cut it no one knows about it and they continued you know doing second book in the similar style that would be probably considered their best work but because they kind of I feel like very often because they showed something and got really high praise about that they kind of stuck to that style and kept producing very same photos maybe Martin Parr is not the best example because he has a little bit different styles he has uh you know his regular documentary style uh he has the flash he has the telephoto he has uh the macro shots and that's where why I think he's such a successful photographer because he was able to kind of reinvent himself uh and uh you know do a little different photos now looking at Cartier brassonne he did his kind of like personal uh like like more artistic projects uh and then he did his reportage right and all of those photos they are really great right but uh they kind of uh and then some people would put me on the cross for that but they kind of uh I wouldn't say look same but they use the same principles they go for the decisive moment they go for geometry they go for composition uh they go for similar elements you rarely see Cartier brison taking uh Landscapes or doing macros or at least that's not what he is known about so I think the reason uh why there is this notion which I don't believe really is true uh do photographers take their best pictures at the beginning of the career is just because they kind of stuck to their uh to their style and kept doing kept producing photography uh which is which was kind of similar to what they did and uh not to just put something down or uh you know say it's bad those are still wonderful photos uh I'm just saying if you take take the first half of Katy person's career you kind of split it discard those photos then the new ones are going to be considered the masterpieces and the best of his uh of his career that's kind of uh what I think uh well for me I still consider some of the best shots I took when I started doing street photography I was kind of taking shots of everything without thinking about the rules or composition it was Freedom uh I would but but I mean like you probably do agree that when you look at your older photos or at least what I what I experience is that I look at my older photos and I think like oh my God this is such a trash at the point that I thought wow those are wonderful photos but now as we getting better or what what I believe is what you experience as you get better you kind of see those photos and uh you think oh my god I've got so much better in the meantime than I don't know five years ago when I like I think it's it's kind of naive in the sense that yes you could took a masterpiece but it was rather by mistake than uh knowingly doing that and like a lot of about photography is uh is about luck right I do agree about that but still knowing what you what you uh are doing is Gonna Get You More lucky right kind of like uh you you trying to to catch the bus but uh standing at the bus stop will give you uh more chances to catch one right than randomly walking around a city uh but of course through the years I shaped my style and until now I'm discovering and learning more and more street photography is Big worth and it's blessing that we are learning more about street photography yeah okay all right so that's that