Charles Traub is the chairman of the School of Visual Arts’s photography MFA program, and Popular Photography's blog has recently published his closing remarks from a panel discussion about photography at the Aperture Foundation in New York.
Among his advice to "young" photographers are these two gems; one is tongue in cheek, while the other is serious:
Do it sharp—if you can’t, call it art.
Don’t photograph indigent people—especially in foreign lands.
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