Day 62: Joe Bird and Stacy Clausen

2026-04-09Hello! Well, this is something.Last month, I got in contact with WikiPortraits, an international organization that captures photos of people for Wikipedia and its sister projects. They let me go to the New Directors / New Films opening night in New York to take photos, and let me just say: oh my god i have no idea what i'm doing.I've worked as an event photographer before — both paid (summer job with kids) and volunteer (school) — but this time I knew no one and felt thoroughly fish-out-of-water. It was great!Outside of photography, I volunteer as an usher for a theater and auditorium, and each time they onboard someone new, the staff's go-to process is to "throw them in the middle of the duck pond" — which I have heard no one else say! The more conventional version, I guess, is to "plunge in the deep end". Do something challenging first, and learn quickly under pressure. It doesn't work for everyone, but that's how I like to do things.So it makes sense that I signed up for…