{"podcast":{"title":"The Terrible Creative","slug":"the-terrible-creative-7304910","podcast_index_feed_id":7304910,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/the-terrible-photographer-podcast","website_url":"https://www.terriblephotographer.com/the-podcast","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/482j1-hhsTJdTs4GV3s7EoBZ5p_6Lr7_7kD3arbuQ3A/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wMTIy/MjM3Yzk2YTUzZDE5/ZjNiODE0Y2MxOTgz/MGRiNC5qcGc.jpg","author":"Patrick Fore","episode_count":77,"summary":"The Terrible Creative is a storytelling podcast for photographers, designers, and creative professionals working through the parts of the creative process no gear review or business course ever covers. Each episode is 30 to 40 minutes. Solo. Story-driven. Built around mental health, artistic identity, and what honest work costs in a career rewarding performance over truth. This is not a photography podcast about cameras, presets, or client strategy. This is a podcast about the inner experience of being a creative professional, made for the mid-career photographer or designer who has mastered the technical side but lost the thread. Hosted by Patrick Fore, commercial photographer, author, and former lead photographer and brand designer for Taylor Guitars. His work has appeared globally for clients like Nike, Petco, and Verizon. He built this show because none of the podcasts he found addressed the real problem. If you are a photographer or creative professional who feels competent on the outside and quietly lost on the inside, you are a Terrible Creative. This is your podcast.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-22T08:18:37.921123+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-terrible-creative-7304910"},"episode":{"title":"The Audit -  Was Your Work Already Replaceable Before AI Arrived?","slug":"the-audit-was-your-work-already-replaceable-before-ai-arrived","published_at":"2026-03-17T07:05:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-terrible-creative-7304910/the-audit-was-your-work-already-replaceable-before-ai-arrived","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-terrible-creative-7304910","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/a9cd82b7","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/a9cd82b7/090a8e02.mp3","summary":"The fear underneath every AI conversation in photography right now isn't really about the future. It's recognition. In this episode, Patrick sits down with the hard question nobody in the industry is asking out loud: were we already making replaceable work before AI arrived? He traces the argument from a weekend with the Capture One leadership team, through his own portfolio audit, two unscripted phone calls with a working commercial photographer, a portrait session with a professor who had never been photographed, and a Christopher Anderson image made inside the White House that quietly pulls itself apart at the seams. This isn't an episode about AI killing photography. It's about what AI is making visible — and what that means for the work you make next. Show Notes The conversation about AI and photography has been happening at the wrong altitude. Markets, economics, job security — those are real questions. But they're the surface conversation. The thing underneath is harder: what were you making before AI arrived, and why? This episode starts in Paris, 1839 — the moment photography was supposed to kill painting — and ends with a question you probably haven't let yourself ask yet. Along the way: — A weekend with part of the leadership team at Capture One, and why Patrick came home more excited than afraid — The portfolio audit: scrolling back through his own work with new eyes, and what Gemini did with one of his best-performing images in four minutes — Two unscripted phone calls with commercial photographer Morgan Turner — including the two words that said everything — A portrait session with a professor in her fifties who had never been photographed, and what that responsibility actually looks like — Christopher Anderson's White House portraits, a light switch, and…","meta_description":"The fear underneath every AI conversation in photography right now isn't really about the future. It's recognition. In this episode, Patrick sits down wit…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3297,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-terrible-creative-7304910/episodes/the-audit-was-your-work-already-replaceable-before-ai-arrived/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-terrible-creative-7304910/the-audit-was-your-work-already-replaceable-before-ai-arrived.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}