Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]b.d. suggested documentary photographers support their work with commercial shooting: >>Or, find a way to make decent money with photography and use it to >>support the documentary work - this route has the advantage that you michael b. replied: >AKA "Sell Out" and become another Events Photographer shooting in the >ever popular "photojournalist style" like the rest of us. to which i'll toss in my .02: mary ellen mark, a better photographer than i, and certianly one with excellent doccumentary credentials does celeberty portraits to support her doccumentary work (which brings her little or no money although a considerable amount of personal satisfaction). see her books "streetwise" on teen hookers in seattle and "falkland road" about adult hookers in india, and her fantastic doccumentary work with people like the Damm family (two adults, two kids, two dogs, all living in a car). and for the other side of her work, check out "portraits". or just get the big 25 year retrospective. which is well worth it. kc - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html