I'm Edward Thompson and I've been a pro photographer for 24 years with 10 years teaching experience as a Senior Lecturer in universities in the U.K.
I've been published by National Geographic Magazine, The Guardian Weekend Magazine, BBC, CNN, Huck, The British Journal of Photography and VICE.
I've worked on around 3,000 professional photography assignments for some of the world's leading magazines, charities and organisations.
I'm a pro photographer pretending to be a YouTuber, not a YouTuber pretending to be a photographer! 🤣
If you like what I do and want me to keep making it please consider JOINING my channel as a member for £2.99.
Thank you
p.s
You've read this far so I think I can trust you.... this whole Youtube show thing is my crash course in film making! I figured by making a video a week I could improve my editing, lighting, sound recording and interview technique. The aim? To make a feature documentary film about photography! If you can help me PLEASE do
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There's a live Channel Members Q&A with me tonight at 8pm (U.K time). There's still time to join my channel for £2.99 a month and catch it as well as access to all the other members only videos:
youtube.com/channel/UC_MGPuhal7u0-pgGVvxPxww/join
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I posted a video essay yesterday thats Awesome! But the algorithm didn't like it.
Maybe I should have stuck to the original thumbnail I made? See below.
WATCH ----> https://youtu.be/MXOQzWZPFpo
If you want to be guaranteed to see my videos when I post them please turn your notifications on for my channel.
Ta!
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If you're going to play then why not be a Sexy Thief Photographer?
A new mini essay on Substack now: synchromancy.substack.com/p/sexy-thief-photographe…
Happy New Year!
(I'm your Huckleberry)
Ed
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Hello Readers On My Mind! I've written a post on Substack about: Print Drops, Benefactors and trying to fund long-form photo projects. You can read it here:
open.substack.com/pub/synchromancy/p/how-to-photo-…
And yeah, it could have been a Youtube video, but I think I would have lost 90% of Youtube viewers at 'The Medici Family...'
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This week's video was about an A.I company paying photographers $60 an hour to generate content for them to train their A.I on.
I've thought about it a bit since and I've come to two conclusions:
1. They are already stealth training on all our data anyway.
My website analytics are swamped by views from China that have zero engagement. So at least this way photographers are getting compensated.
2. There is no shame in trying to earn a living as a photographer.
It is incredibly hard, especially if you are remote working or somewhere where there are little to no freelance opportunities.
If you missed the episode:
https://youtu.be/Lgzb6dZB6e8
The $60 per hour remote photography job is here:
work.mercor.com/jobs/list_AAABmfNdlw2tlswfxR1JyZyl…
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A little Arthurian Photo Quest teaser reel for next Tuesdays Print Drop!
I'm finally selling some prints from my ongoing QUEST to help make new work.
Pricing a range of editions so there's something for everyone.
youtube.com/shorts/xZQ5wvzK2T...
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Just posted an essay on Substack for you:
open.substack.com/pub/synchromancy/p/photographers…
No public video this week, it'll be members only tomorrow.
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Are you wondering why so many YouTubers are quitting or hard pivoting into 'education' all of a sudden.... I wrote something on Substack:
open.substack.com/pub/synchromancy/p/youtube-kille…
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I've got an assignment to shoot 50 lit portraits across 50 different locations of 50 people. If I filmed my lighting set ups and creative choices would that be helpful? These would be for channel members only and it would be a monster video of ALL the set ups.
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