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I find it amazing that there is just so much difference between the UK and the USA where black and white photography is concerned. During 2004 I visited a friend in Glasgow and whilst I was there she took me around some of the smaller galleries. One of these galleries specialised in mono photography but the owner was stunned that in the USA she would take hundreds of dollars a week whereas in the UK she hadn't sold a thing in three weeks. I really do think that where art and imaging is concerned, the UK needs a severe education.
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I always put a small printed six by four note on the back of my work holding technical details. This note is printed onto Somerset paper to give it a bit of a quality feel. My photographs are at the moment printed by D Studio onto the same Somerset paper so at least there is a connection with the media used.
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Having re-read the thread, I find it a shame that the British public are as described. However, we are talking business matters, and as a business one has to look at the bottom line. As a part-time enterprise, say to support your hobby, the rules are slightly different-but you do not go into business with the sole aim of failing. You may do, but the idea is to get the business to support itself and you. It (the business) does not exist for you to support it-that is called a hobby. Whilst we would all like everyone to come in and buy armfuls of 20x16 FB prints, if a viable business can be run by selling inkjets, then it's more viable than creating silver prints that no-one will buy. Sentiment is a luxury in business, a by-product born of success. No-one (cliche coming up but it's true)plans to fail-but plenty fail to plan. Concentrate on doing what works, silver or inkjet or both untill you find out more, and I hope eventually you get to concentrate on what you like. But as a business, it must be in that order-what works first, and then what you like. Thoughts?
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As I have said before, living where I do does put me in a slightly different position in that we get a lot of european visitors,french in particular, and they do seem to prefer to purchase silver prints, and for the most part both know and understand the differance, and some come back time after time, but we are nearer to France than to the uk,which possibly makes a differance to my print sales,Richard
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Nobody called me interlektual b4...... but thanks for your thoughts, hope mine helped you.
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