Photographer, co-founder of Street Dreams Magazine, and Sony Alpha Collective member Steven John Irby, better known to many as Steve Sweatpants, joins the podcast to talk about his journey from working at jobs like Game Stop and REI with no real plan in life other than paying the bills, to finding a like minded creative community through Instagram and falling in love with visual story telling and the opportunities it opened up for him. During our conversation Steve talks about the sage wisdom his father once gave to him of not living to pay your rent and how he would take that advice and apply it to creating a career he was passionate it about and would end up touring him all over the world while establishing a huge community around Street Dreams Magazine. We also discuss the financial sacrifices he was willing to make to see his dreams come to fruition, how a tight knit family has continued to play a role in his desire to form lasting creative communities, his feelings about the current trajectory of Instagram and how that has effected his career and workflow, and the advice he gives to others chasing their own creative path.
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