Chico Review 2026 - part 1: Why Feedback Beats 10,000 Followers
4/2/20261 hr 47 min
The Chico Review destroyed my confidence. Then built it back...
THIS IS PART 1 OF A 2 PART FEATURE ON CHICO REVIEW 2026 - SEE PART 2 NEXT WEEK.
I arrived at the Chico Review 2026 thinking my work was ready. 10 formal reviews, 25 reviewers and speakers, publishers, curators, photographers and more — I was scrapping half of it by the end of day one. This is the first installment of 2, about my honest experience on what happened, what I learned, and why I'd do it all again without hesitation.
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First 90 secondsMatt Jacob· Host0:00
Hey guys, I'm in a hotel room here in Vancouver just a few days before heading down to Montana for Chico Review Week. And this is going to be a slightly different podcast episode because I really want to take you through the whole process from an attendee standpoint as it happens. I'll be documenting the experience on screen as much as possible and hopefully speaking with some of the other photographers attending the review as well as some of the reviewers and speakers themselves along the way. Now, if you're not familiar with Chico Review, it's one of the most respected portfolio review events in photography. For a few days, for a week, us photographers from all around the world gather to sit down one-on-one with editors, curators, publishers, and other well-renowned photographers to show our work and talk about where it might go next. And across this week, you kind of rotate through a series of reviewers, about 10 to 20 of them. And there are dozens of reviewers involved, and you might meet many of them throughout the event, we hope. Each conversation lasting around 20 to