Creatives Talk About Their Biggest Fears, and How They Overcame Them

Creatives—especially freelancers—rely on a cornucopia of clichés to help navigate a career path defined by fear and uncertainty, and a new video packs them in nicely.

Shot to promote the Stand Out! Photographic Forums, a conference held last month in Los Angeles and San Francisco, the video cuts together interviews with a range of camera-driven visual artists. The discussion covers topics that should be familiar to a broader set of creatives: the fear of failure, and the importance of vision, drive, faith and experimentation.

Art photographer Gregory Crewdson is perhaps the best known of the bunch.