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What do you do with your prints?
This is obviously aimed at those of us that do this for pleasure as opposed to professionally.
I just wondered what members do with prints once they are finished. Do you hang them at home, give them to friends, store them in boxes, make albums or ? Just curious really Ian |
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All of those things plus I show them at the East Midlands Monochrome Group and enter them into the FADU exhibition.
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Those I like best are hanging on the wall in our house till "better" (newer) ones will be there, the rest is stored in archival boxes for further use.
Some are scanned for my website, some have been sold. Some go to exhibitions. Last edited by mono; 14th January 2011 at 04:56 PM. |
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Hi Ian, I tend to show them to two photographic groups (Mirage and Arena) I'm a member of plus I exhibit them at group exhibitions as and when. I also give talks to various photography groups that invite me along to talk about my work.
Occasionally I may write an article around a particular topic and use my photographs to illustrate it, but this is usually speculative as commissions seem a rarity for me these days - ah Prints are mostly stored, mounted and unmounted, in portfolio boxes/cases. I've always considered myself as an amateur and never a professional - perhaps it shows? I just enjoy making and looking at prints - to me they're a thing of beauty.
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Most of mine go into storage boxes after being scanned for the web or put into a Blurb book. Some get framed and put on Walls within the house. Unfortunately for every person who sees one of my real prints there are at least a hundred more who only get to look at the web version
It seems a shame to spend so much time and effort (and £££) making fine prints then hiding them away but I suppose this is an advantage too as I can pretty much make the images I want. Steve |
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It certainly does not show Trevor, there are many professionals (which only means you earn your main living from it) who could learn a great deal from your work, myself included. Neil |
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I remember Robert Adams writing in his book, "To Make It Home" - 'Whatever power there is in the urban pictures is bound to the closeness with which they skirt banality. For a shot to be good - suggestive of more then just what it is - it has to come perilously near being bad, just a view of stuff.' - I have to take solace in this quote.
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I know what you mean Trevor I had a similar experience myself last year when showing prints to camera club, they looked very uninspired.
Mind you I think I would be very worried if they did appeal to camera club these days. JON.
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Since I started to print small, many photos fit the albums now.
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