A topic that often comes to my mind is not purely about photography and artistic photography, but which extends to it, is the issue of male and female photographers. I have never divided my students into genders or sexual preferences, and at one point I was asked by France to recommend good Greek female photographers, but I refused to do so, saying that the gender of the artist does not characterize their artistic work. However, one observation frequently comes to mind; I would say that the majority of my students are of the female gender. They are girls and indeed, I would possibly say, very good at that; I won't say the best, but a large number of good photographers are women. Nevertheless, almost none, perhaps one comes to mind, became a photography teacher, and very few have promoted themselves in line with the quality of their work. The same phenomenon exists in other fields, especially in fields traditionally expected to be female, like cooking. The great chefs around the world are men. There are very few women with three Michelin stars in the world, even though we all know that the cooking that raised us was done by our mothers, our grandmothers, the women at home, and just when we reach the field of public exposure, men take the leading position. I don’t think there is any dark conspiracy against women, perhaps there is a wisdom in women who do not want to spoil what they love by pushing it to become a tool for promotion and fame, while on the contrary, all men carry a kind of upbringing according to which if there is no distinction in what we do, we have failed. I point this out simply without suggesting solutions or combative positions to help us all understand that many times we are carried away by what society or the family expects from us, and it is not what we should normally want for ourselves, namely a more relaxed and always serious relationship with photography but not necessarily a relationship of promotion and first place or an external award. I say this not for women to become like men but for men to become a bit more like female photographers.