Photographers should focus more critically on traits that have nothing to do with technicality.

Instead of worrying endlessly about lighting and timing for storytelling, why not focus on curiosity and courage as the true measurement of whether or not you are improving?

If the photograph requires courage, if you’re photographing from your heart, then to me, that’s a successful photograph.

If you’re waking up each morning increasing your curiosity, propelling your body onto the front lines of life to make new frames, then you are already succeeding.

Photography has nothing to do with photography.

It has everything to do with the way that you engage with humanity out there in the open world, on the front lines of life.

This is not to dismiss the difficulty of making impactful frames, but rather to recognize that

In order to make great frames, one must first cultivate a great heart.

—Dante Sisofo