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Photography is a conversation.

My Story

Joe McClure holds an MFA in Photography and is a juried artist with the Cape Cod Art Center. His work explores the relationships between people, places, memory, and time through a philosophy that begins with a simple idea: the subject is rarely the subject.

What began as a passion for photography has become a lifelong practice of curiosity and investigation. I enjoy sharing that journey with others who find themselves unable to walk past the ordinary without wondering what else might be there.

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Services

  • 1:1 Photography Mentoring — 90 minutes | $150

    Bring the question. We'll build the session.

    Every photographer gets stuck somewhere different.

    Maybe you're trying to understand your camera. Maybe you're struggling with composition, editing, sequencing, post-processing, printing, critique, or finding your own artistic voice. Maybe you simply want another set of experienced eyes on your work.

    Rather than offering a one-size-fits-all class, I build each 90-minute session around your goals.

    You bring the question. We'll spend our time finding the answer.

    Depending on what you bring me, that might include:

    • Understanding your camera and settings

    • Composition and visual design

    • Learning to see beyond the obvious

    • Critiquing your portfolio

    • Editing and sequencing a body of work

    • Developing your personal artistic voice

    • Printing and presentation

    • Lightroom or Photoshop workflow

    • Street photography and observation

    • Long exposure or intentional camera movement

    • Planning a personal project

    • Exploring the work of other photographers and what we can learn from it

    • Or simply walking around with a camera and talking about what catches your eye

    We may spend the session making photographs, looking closely at yours, working through a technical problem, or sitting down with photography books and studying how other photographers have approached the same question. Sometimes the most useful photography session happens before the camera ever comes out.

    Sessions may be remote or in person and are available evenings and weekends.

  • On-Location Portraits | 60 minutes | $350

    A portrait should look like the person, not like the photographer’s idea of how that person ought to pose.

    My portrait sessions take place where you are comfortable—at your home, outdoors, at the beach, or at another location we choose together. I provide direction when it helps, but I prefer to let expression, gesture, personality, and the environment become part of the photograph.

    I bring professional lighting appropriate to the location. That may mean a more complete lighting setup indoors or a simpler approach outdoors that balances you naturally with the existing light.

    Your session includes:

    • Up to 60 minutes of photography

    • One location

    • Professional lighting appropriate to the setting

    • 10 individually edited, high-resolution digital photographs

    • Personal-use printing rights

    • Delivery within 14 days

    Sessions are available evenings and weekends. Outdoor sessions are weather dependent and may be rescheduled when conditions would compromise the photographs.

Photography Services

Photography is more than knowing what settings to use or where to put the light. Technical skill matters, but so does understanding what has been done before us, learning why photographs work, and developing the ability to recognize what we want our own photographs to say.

I hold an MFA in Photography and am a juried artist at the Cape Cod Art Center. My photographic education has included not only the technical practice of making and printing photographs, but the history of the medium and the work of the photographers who shaped it. That foundation continues to inform both the photographs I make and the way I approach working with other photographers.

I offer two very different kinds of one-on-one work. Photography mentoring begins with your question and is built specifically around what you want to understand or develop. On-location portraiture begins with the person, using location, light, gesture, and expression to make photographs that speak to who they are.

Neither comes from a template. The work begins with what is in front of us and where we want to take it.

Services are available evenings and weekends.

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Questions about my work, prints, mentoring, exhibitions, collaborations, or something I haven’t thought of yet? Send me a note. I’d be happy to hear from you.