Daidō Moriyama

The lesson: grain, blur and instinct are allowed. Moriyama worked with the short-lived Provoke magazine in the late 1960s, whose look became known as are, bure, boke, usually translated as grainy, blurry and out of focus, a deliberate break from neat, dependable photojournalism. His best-known picture, a scruffy stray dog glancing back over its shoulder, was taken in 1971 in Misawa, a town in northern Japan with a large US Air Force base, and he has described it as a kind of self-portrait. Start there, then try a walk where you shoot from the hip, move fast and keep the frames that feel right rather than the ones that look correct. It is the cure for overthinking every exposure.