As I said above, it started with a random post I put on Facebook, “Photography is losing it’s value as ART & just becoming a commodity, in turn, losing it’s value. People, have pride in your industry.” After the 85 comments and direct messages, here we are. Also, the other reason as Kelly Segre posted, that at this years WPPI Print competition, there was no Fine Art Category in which to enter some of her prints, they didn’t fall into other portrait categories. After this and many other long conversations with photographers I know, I decided to start this blog as a place that we will post images, stories, links, and interviews with photographers I know and respect, and some from others who are also respected and admired due to their conviction to keeping photography as an ART.
As we know, there many more photography fields other then weddings. Fine art, commercial, editorial, fashion, industrial, photojournalism, and many more. So let’s be real here. Let’s keep the focus on what we know that the masters of our industry worked really hard to make photography acceptable as art. I’m sure this week with my visit to WPPI I will have many conversations that will give us more ideas to grow this venture together, you and I.
Also, just something quick for those who visit this site, here is a world renown photographer that I was fortunate enough to assist on occasion when he would come to Miami, Helmut Newton. This is to open the mind to some of you who have never heard of him, or other GREATS we plan on talking about here. How many photographers you know have their own museum.
And one of his most famous images
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