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How creative peer groups handle one member's breakthrough success

Our photography collective has one member whose work has taken off commercially and now every group critique feels like we're either talking around her success or making it the center of everything. We're all happy for her but the dynamic has shifted and we don't know how to recalibrate our peer relationships.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Individual achievement within a peer group has disrupted the equality that allowed for honest creative exchange, requiring conscious recalibration of group dynamics.

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