{"id":702,"date":"2026-01-02T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/?p=702"},"modified":"2026-01-02T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T09:30:00","slug":"ten-films-that-show-what-its-really-like-to-be-a-photographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/?p=702","title":{"rendered":"Ten Films That Show What It\u2019s Really Like to Be a Photographer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/design-living\/16857\/peter-hujars-day-films-about-photographers-nan-goldin-lee-miller-mapplethorpe?utm_source=Linkamp;utm_medium=Linkamp;utm_campaign=RSSFeedamp;utm_term=ten-films-that-show-what-it-s-really-like-to-be-a-photographer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/786\/azure\/another-prod\/460\/7\/467815.jpg\" alt=\"Peter Hujar\u2019s Day, 2026\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>They may not enjoy being on the other side of the lens, but photographers make for fascinating subjects. Thankfully for us, there\u2019s no shortage of films, both fictional and factual, that turn the camera the other way and show us what it\u2019s really like to be a photographer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In just the past year, several documentaries were released that centred on specific photographers: the late Martin Parr in Lee Shulman\u2019s I Am Martin Parr and Joel Meyerowitz (with his wife Maggiehellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/design-living\/16857\/peter-hujars-day-films-about-photographers-nan-goldin-lee-miller-mapplethorpe?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=ten-films-that-show-what-it-s-really-like-to-be-a-photographer\">read more raquo;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They may not enjoy being on the other side of the lens, but photographers make for fascinating subjects. Thankfully for us, there\u2019s no shortage of films, both fictional and factual, that turn the camera the other way and show us&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}