Thank you Gordon. I appreciate the comment and having my name included with a class act like Jim Collum!
Yes I would agree with this on all counts, at least speaking from my own personal experience.It seems to me, and I would happily be proven wrong in this, that the same efforts and expense of marketing oneself in fine art photography might be better spent towards pushing commercial photography. My guess is that the return on time and money would be greater. I certainly put substantially more efforts into my commercial photography, though I find it odd at times that my fine art photography seems to generate a greater level of respect, even from commercial clients.
So I guess (yup, do lot's of that) that in a way (for some) exhibiting art photography is a form of marketing in itself. That can drive the success of commercial work, or teaching, or even writing.
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Gordon Moat
A G Studio
I would add this observation for others wanting to break into the art field and again, my own personal experience only, so YMMV: I have found that looking to other artists for support is far less productive than looking to a businessperson for support. For whatever reason, it seems other artists are happy to help until your work gets good, then they view you as direct competition and do whatever is necessary to foil your progress. By contrast, I've found most good business people are quite willing to help a less experienced colleague advance, understanding the benefit of collaboration. Obviously, using my logic, the best mentor to find would be a good artist who is also a good businessperson, but this seems to be a rather rare combination of talents
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