No photographer works in a vacuum.
By collecting, imitating, and eventually reshapin.
If you are striving to find your own style, one of the most powerful exercises you can practice is to find influence and Inspiration in the work of those around you, and then emulate that work in an effort to define, shape, and grow your own photographic voice.
Photographers, Like all artists, stand on the shoulders of those who came before them, and they are informed and influenced by those working around them.
No photographer works in a vacuum