Patrick Fore Photography

01/06/2026

Available for preorder now! Shipping later this month.

The war is internal, not technical.

12/08/2025

I’ve been working on something for the last couple of years and it’s finally shipping.

Lessons From A Terrible Photographer is now available.

This book is part memoir, part creative survival guide, and part “I wish someone told me this years ago.”
It’s about the messy, human side of making things in a world that loves pretending everything is perfect.

To celebrate the launch, a few days ago I created a limited Collector’s Box.

I made 35 of them. Ten are already gone. Twenty five remain.

Each one includes:
• A signed, numbered first edition hardcover
• A Field Notes notebook for your own ideas, frustrations, and breakthroughs
• A sticker pack created just for this launch
• A bonus chapter
• A signed print from me
• Personal note of thanks from me
• And more.

I made these for the people who’ve supported me, encouraged me, argued with me, worked with me, hired me, or believed in me when I wasn’t sure what I was doing.

If you want one, the link is in my bio.
If not, thank you for reading this and for being part of my life in some way.

This whole thing has meant more to me than I can explain.

11/10/2025

Most of what we post here isn’t real.

LinkedIn, Instagram… whatever. It’s all highlight reels with corporate filters

smiles, buzzwords, sanitized success stories.

I get it. But I’m after something else.

I’ve spent half my life chasing light. Not because it’s beautiful, but because it tells the truth.

This frame was shot after a Southern California rain. The ocean was still angry. Wind. Salt. Noise. The beach almost empty. But this one moment… was quiet.

That’s what I’m after.
Work that feels alive, not polished.
Human, not perfect.

Thirty days of real work start here.

No hype. No jargon. Just the work.

Follow along, will you?

Make it honest. Make it human.

10/31/2025

I spirit of this holiday, I give you the scariest and weirdest job i’ve ever shot. Nothing compares and i’ve shot a lot of stuff over the course of the past 3 years of freelancing.

This was early on, and i was taking any job that i could get. I will not comment much about this, but it was pretty terrifying to say the least.

Also wanted to thank for standing in as model for these. My god I abused him on this set. It was the worse. I’m so so sorry.

So here you go, giant alien bug.

Sometimes you do jobs because, they are jobs.

Happy friends. stay safe, stay scared.

10/28/2025

Available for PreOrder This November - Shipping for the holidays.

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08/22/2025

So, i’m gonna tell you that i’ve been a little bored with my work.

And i’ve been wanting to go back and look at some past portraits with some fresh and honest eyes.

To push back against my warm/contrasty instincts and to reimagine colors and mood and tone.

To connect more with where i’m at, how i’m feeling and thinking. What if I created and color graded from a more authentic place.

I’m not sure what looks like. And here is the thing, I have no idea what to do with my instagram. It’s kind of a dusty relic that, truth be told, i don’t really care much anymore.

So here we are. Let’s explore some stuff.

Model: (the amazing and talented)

07/28/2025

And this is product photography. If you have to shoot product, it might as well be a Guinness ya know?

07/14/2025

I started this podcast a few months ago after getting really annoyed at all the gear talk bros and grow your wedding business conversations.

Its been such a fun ride of developing this and writing new episodes every week. I'm absolutely honored that Apple’s Podcast Team has found it and liked enough to feature it at the top of the browse page.

Thank you for all of you who have listened. And if you haven't checked it out, the link is int bio.

06/18/2025

Follow Patrick on Substack!

To the introverts. The awkward ones.

06/18/2025

I remember sitting in 10th-grade history class, wondering what it felt like to be a regular German citizen in the 1930s. Not a N**i. Not Jewish. Just… there. Watching things change.

Watching propaganda rise.
Watching neighbors disappear.
Watching fear tighten its grip, while life stayed weirdly normal. Work, dinner, errands. Business as usual.

And now I look around and think—this is how it starts.

Not with a bang, but with silence.
With people too afraid, too tired, too comfortable to speak up.

I’m not saying we’re in the Holocaust. I’m not saying Trump is Hi**er. That comparison minimizes real horror.

But the patterns—the fear-mongering, the scapegoating, the power grabs—feel familiar. And it scares me.

Because I’m realizing some of the people I know—friends, neighbors, even family—would fall in line. Not out of hate, but out of weakness.

Maybe it’s time we stop pretending this is normal.
Maybe it’s time we draw a line.

06/03/2025

Check out the latest episode of The Terrible Photographer Podcast! Listen to the full podcast here https://play.headliner.app/podcast/_cpf_cmbfy8f7h000s08o7h7z39ywl/episode/e16f28d8-8a4d-40d0-82a5-e8b9ded763ad?utm_source=facebook

04/24/2025

Sometimes this is what client feedback feels like to me.

“When someone doesn’t like my work, it doesn’t just sting—it spirals. My stomach knots. My chest tightens. My brain goes into full DEFCON 1 mode, amplifying every negative comment while filtering out the positives.”
— Lessons From a Terrible Photographer