“I wanted to photograph in color, but after shooting black-and-white for ten formative years, I was way over-self-conscious about it. I started shooting red fire hydrants and yellow curbs. And I was bored to death. A visiting artist recognized this and told me, ‘Just shoot like you always did in black and white. Don’t think of color.’ I think that was the best advice I received in my entire photo-education. Sometimes big problems have simple solutions.” —Michael Northrup What is a “photo no-no”? Photographers often have unwritten lists of subjects they tell themselves not to shoot—things that are cliché, exploitative, derivative, sometimes even arbitrary. See our link in bio to read 13 photographers reflect on what they consider to be off-limits, and how they have contended with their own self-imposed rules. Image: Michael Northrup, Tire Fire, 1981; Courtesy the artist