As I mentioned in the preceding post, I’ve been working a lot more on CPA business. How’d I get so involved? It’s a long story, and one that I’ll probably get into later; I’ve been on the Board since February, and President since March. In March, we made a long list of things that needed… [Read More]

The most important thing I learned at PhotoLucida was how much time and energy it takes to sell your work. It can be a lot. In fact, for some, it seems to be more time than they spend making photographs. That isn’t a happy realization for me. I love to make images. I like to… [Read More]

I’ll write later about PhotoLucida’s effect on me personally, but in this post I’d like to attempt a summary for anyone considering attending PhotoLucida or a similar portfolio review convention. The program’s target audience is mid-career photographers. If you already have gallery representation, your work is in museum collections, and you have had many individual… [Read More]

I’m not done with PhotoLucida, but my time is getting swallowed up by things unrelated to my personal photography (but related to photography; maybe more on that later). There’s one thing I was going to save until the end, but, since the end is receding into the mists of future time, I thought I say… [Read More]

Well, there’s really no question. The reviewers have it; the photographers don’t. The clues are everywhere. The reviewers get a free ride; the photographers pay. The reviewers go into the reviewing room at their leisure; the photographers queue up, flatten themselves against the wall, and wait for the signal from the staff person chosen to… [Read More]