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135: Kat Hannon - Chester Photographer talking Creativity, Dyslexia and watching films on the sofa

·1 hr 21 min·5 clips

Kat says wedding photography forces her to shout at 100 people and change her personality under pressure.

1. Rage Whale features Chester photographer Kat Hannon talking about creativity, dyslexia, and watching films on the sofa. 2. The hosts describe Kat Hannon as a prolific Chester photographer and introduce her new creative agency, Hack. 3. The episode asks how a photographer with 20 years of experience shifts into agency work without losing creative control. 4. Kat says Hack is built around services she already knows, including photography, videography, and other freelance resources. 5. She explains that Anna works with her, but the company is not built around permanent staff. 6. The hosts ask for Kat's website, Instagram, and LinkedIn while the conversation is still underway. 7. Kat says she is moving from running around as a freelancer to guiding newer people through a company structure. 8. She describes meeting talent through social scenes years ago and now using social media to find models, makeup artists, and videographers. 9. The conversation compares social media to a visual business card that shows whether someone is active and consistent. 10. Kat says she prefers work where she can direct the brief, choose resources carefully, and still protect the style of Hack. 11. She says she stopped doing most weddings because they are weekend work and because she does not feel full creative control. 12. Kat describes weddings as jobs where she has to manage timing, lighting, and large groups, even if she would still shoot for friends. 13. She says commercial shoots suit her better because they involve longer projects, models, and a team she can build over weeks. 14. She says some of her favorite jobs are photographing newly built houses, especially when she can walk through them alone with music on. 15. Kat says one of the best parts of the job is matching different people and different campaigns to the project's style. 16. She explains that her late-diagnosed dyslexia affected reading and spelling, including a struggle with black-and-white text and certain letter patterns. 17. The conversation becomes personal when she talks about using a pink sheet of paper to help her read and about spelling words phonetically. 18. The hosts keep the tone loose and joking, with a lot of back-and-forth about photography, memory, and wordplay. 19. People who like creative careers, freelance life, and visual branding will probably enjoy this episode. 20. People looking for a tightly edited, topic-specific interview may skip it.

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A loose, funny creator chat about words, pictures, and why the sofa still wins sometimes.

Rage Whale places Kate Hannon, a Chester photographer, at the center of a loose, funny exchange that starts with dyslexia jokes and settles into the practical side of making things when words do not come easily.

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If words keep tripping you up, this one swaps them for pictures and laughs.

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