On Becoming Useless

Kenneth Jarecke
The Shadow
Published in
4 min readMar 4, 2021

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Just another useless image. Copyright 2021 Kenneth Jarecke / Contact Press Images

Looking for success? After trying everything else, you may want to consider becoming useless.

We’ve been seeing a lot of pictures of people holding signs lately. Which can only mean we’re going to see more pictures of people holding signs. As photographers, we are conditioned to respond to the marketplace, and today the marketplace of visual ideas is housed on Instagram. Pictures of signs are odd, not because we don’t agree…

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Kenneth Jarecke
The Shadow

I'm a husband, dad, photographer, a writer (sort of), an occasional rancher and the Founder of The Curious Society. https://www.curious-society.org