We're a group of four photographers who've been doing gallery shows together for three years and one of us has started getting significantly more attention and opportunities, and now every group meeting has this weird undercurrent of celebration mixed with something that feels like envy but no one knows how to acknowledge success within a collective identity.
More people experience this than they realize.
Individual achievement within a group structure creates emotional complexity that the collective has no framework for processing, threatening both relationships and shared purpose.
“Where Are You with Photography — seeing as practice?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.