My business partner and I are photographers building a studio together, and we're both control freaks who got into this because we love having complete creative autonomy. Now we're trying to develop a shared aesthetic for client work and neither of us knows how to compromise without feeling like we're losing our individual voice, which was the whole point of working for ourselves in the first place.
More people experience this than they realize.
Artists who chose collaboration to preserve autonomy face the paradox that true partnership requires surrendering the very independence they sought to protect.
“Where Are You with Architecture as creative practice?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.