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If You Have Any of These Traits, You Shouldn’t Teach Photography
Photography is one of those disciplines that tend to be learned in an empirical way. Therefore, it is very likely that if you are reading this, you could be either learning from somebody else or in the position of teaching anyone something valuable about photography. After 3 years of formally teaching photography at a University in my country, I’ve learned various things, and today I want to share them with you.
Before starting out, I want to emphasize that I’ve skipped the obvious things, so I won’t cover stuff like “you need to be able to handle groups of people” or “you have to know photography”. Also important to mention, you need to be extremely passionate about photography in order to teach about it. If you don’t love photography, then stop reading this right now.
Poor of Organizational Skills
Teaching is a process that should be organized, even though when it feels a little bit improvised, it should respond to a traceable workflow. Many people have trouble when it comes to organizing projects, and photography should be seen as one too. It has to have a purpose and a direction. Therefore, if you are likely to improvise while teaching, then you will fall under the category of “someone that shares stuff with the others”, but that can’t be categorized as teaching.
