I’ve been a little lax with my blog this month, partly due to the fact that I’ve been travelling in Sweden, so sorry I didn’t get the monthly calendar shot online.
However, sitting recharging batteries and catching up, I checked out the latest entry on Chase Jarvis’ blog about photographers and survival and was struck at how it corresponded with my friend Nick Wilcox Brown’s entry writen just 24 hours later. Nick writes about how the advance of digital has impacted professional photographers and made ‘everyone a photographer’, giving an example of how an agency tried to emulate his work cheaply. Nick asks how photographers are to survive if quality and the photographer’s eye are not valued.
Just 24 hours earlier in Chase Jarvis’ blog, he wrote about surviving your own photography career and how he found his path. The article he quoted from the Editorial Photographer’s website by Doug Menuez is a superb read and well worth studying by any photographer at whatever stage their career is at. It’s a long post but I don’t think I’ve read anything so insightful in a long time. Some might call it the photographer’s version of a mid-life crisis. I prefer to read it as a kick start to plan your future and something to bookmark and refer back to when you feel you’re losing grip on what you want and where you want to be.
