I was recently asked by Dr. Paul Lowe (episodes 71 & 73 of the podcast) to do a teaching session with his graduating MA Photojournalism & Documentary Photography students based on the most crucial lessons and advice I’ve gleaned from talking to 100+ top notch photographers on the podcast. This immediately struck me as an interesting exercise and potentially of huge value to them. But how to do it? I do often pose a question along the lines of “what’s the one piece of advice you would pass on?”, but who the hell did I ask? There was no way I could listen back over every interview, so the only logical course of action was to email everybody and ask them all that question once and for all. So that’s what I did and here is the advice that came back from the lovely people who took the time and trouble to respond, some in writing and some with a voice memo. I hope you find it as useful and/or inspiring as I did. Incidentally, it was touching and instructive to me to note a lot of consensus around two things: 1. Do work that matters to you. And 2. Be kind. So there are your takeaways.