The Art of the Personal Project is a crucial element to let potential buyers see how you think creatively on your own. I am drawn to personal projects that have an interesting vision or that show something I have never seen before. In this thread, I’ll include a link to each personal project with the artist statement so you can see more of the project. Please note: This thread is not affiliated with any company; I’m just featuring projects that I find. Please DO NOT send me your work. I do not take submissions.
Today’s featured artist: Richard Radstone
Every moment of every day… your individual influence truly does matter
to someone else in the world.
— Richard Radstone
It all started in 2011 when, during a time of personal crisis, I challenged myself to blog the experience of approaching, photographing, and interviewing a stranger every day for 365 consecutive days. When WordPress featured the project as one of the top ten daily blogs to follow, the stories and the audience went global.
Hundreds of unique encounters with people from all walks of life, who, as I dropped my walls, invited me into their lives. And the more I submitted to the project, the more I realized how much I needed their stories. I grew to call everyone I met strangers-now-friends. I became more than a visual storyteller. I became a story seeker. Someone paying closer attention to things we don’t notice at first glance.
What followed was a natural evolution. Photography, blogging, and essay writing led me into documentary filmmaking. Then to speaking, from there to podcasting, and now to becoming an author and observer of human behavior. All of it, a body of work and outreach that I have titled Sidewalk Ghosts. A message shaped by the belief that when we pause long enough to look beyond what we first see, to listen closer, and to feel a little deeper, we can better find the truths that connect us: to ourselves and to each other.
It is strange to think that a difficult year and an experiment in letting go have become a lifelong journey. Yet here I am, still guided by the same simple realization. Inside every person lives a story we do not know, and when those stories are shared, we are encouraged to more fully appreciate the values we hold, allow others to do the same, and discover how much possibility lives in the space between us.
Sidewalk Ghosts: How to more fully love yourself, see others, and navigate this polarized world. 
Cat: Chapter Nine — “You are what you choose to do.
Ray, Quite and loving greatness: Day 173 of the daily blog.
JJ, Just Livevil: Day 142 of the daily blog.
Kimberly, Whispering Angels: Podcast Episode 3 and day 42 of the daily blog.
Mark, Be Good and Do Good: Day 142 of the daily blog.
Justin, To Walk With Them As The Same: Day 123 of the daily blog.
Ben with Friend Taylor: Chapter Two — Ripples, wakes, and storms.
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Suzanne Sease is a creative consultant and former ad-agency senior art buyer. She works with both emerging and established photographers and illustrators to create cohesive, persuasive presentations that clients can’t resist.
Suzanne offers something rare: an insider’s perspective on how client’s source creative talent. Her deep understanding of the industry is underscored by her impressive resume: 11 years as senior art buyer at The Martin Agency, seven years as an art producer for Capital One, and stints with the art-buying department at Kaplan-Thaler and the creative department at Best Buy, where she applied her expertise to reviewing bids to see which were most likely to come in on budget. Over the years, Suzanne has worked with a wildly diverse range of clients, including Seiko, Wrangler, Bank One, AFLAC, and Clairol Herbal Essence. Now, as a consultant, she is equipped to problem-solve for her clients from an unusually dynamic point of view.
As a longtime member of the photo community, Suzanne is also dedicated to giving back. Through her Art of the Personal Project column on the popular website aphotoeditor.com, she highlights notable personal projects by well-known and up-and-coming photographers. The column offers these artists excellent exposure while reflecting Suzanne’s passion for powerful imagery.