Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/01/03

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Original scans
From: imagist3 at mac.com (Lottermoser George)
Date: Thu Jan 3 07:15:32 2008
References: <200801021704.AIU55163@rg4.comporium.net> <20080103000436.ZYIF476.eastrmmtao106.cox.net@eastrmimpo03.cox.net> <200801030059.AJD06872@rg5.comporium.net> <B91CCC14-84A2-4723-8294-5FA00F083DA0@mac.com> <200801030149.AIV11872@rg4.comporium.net>

Personally, I don't believe that phrase; as far as it goes.
The missing piece: "locate the market."
"Do what you love, locate the market and the money will follow." May  
have some validity.

The stock agencies are selling low to markets coming to their stores  
for a glut of life style b.s. photography (with a few rare exceptions).

So it may be that those stock agencies are not the stores that your  
existing documentary work needs to be in. It may be that you need to  
find and or create a different sort of store to sell from. Have you  
considered finding a writer and collaborating on some serious  
publishing ventures? Books and appropriate international magazines  
which would complete the documentary projects you've begun -  
illuminating the subject to a wider audience?

Regards,
George Lottermoser
george@imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com/blog
Picture A Week - www.imagist.com/paw_07




On Jan 2, 2008, at 7:49 PM, Tina Manley wrote:

> I always depended on the "do what you love and the money will  
> follow" idea.


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