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Commitment To Your Work = Taking An Entire Year To Make a Single Image

Want to know about commitment to your art? Think you have what it takes? Listen up.

For the last 40 years, Sam Abell has worked as a documentary photographer, primarily for National Geographic. In this video interview for the Atlantic (created by Alex Hoyt & Ross McDermott), Sam recounts his year-long quest to find the perfect image for a story.

No excuses about modern timelines, budgets, or any of that. When was the last time you hunted for an image, a clip, a specific shot for a year?

Didn’t think so. Confession = me neither. #Inspiring

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  2. Zak says:
    November 1, 2011 at 8:01 pm

    There is an aerial image I have been trying to get for the better part of 4 years that I have yet to capture just how I want…someday soon I hope!

    Thanks for being inspirational…

  3. Nick Hurst says:
    September 30, 2011 at 6:56 am

    Fatastic video, I’m a patient guy and even I will admit it takes an exceeding amount of patience to create a decent time lapse video. It’s something I’ve not achieved. Great post Chase

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  5. arunima vj says:
    September 13, 2011 at 8:09 pm

    great job..! n inspiring yeah

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