Sorry to pass this on, but most people who jump into this don't make money
for the first year or so. You are being very optimistic if you think you
will make money right at the start. Of course your work could sell well but
the odds are against you. A financial cushion of some sort makes a lot of
sense.
BK
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 20:37, Larry Berman <larry@bermanart.com> wrote:
> The shows you listed are not even a fraction of what's available to
> choose from. Coconut Grove and Long's Park are difficult to
> impossible to get into for any photographer at any level of
> experience. I think Crozet is more country craft oriented.
>
> The best advice is to walk shows you're interested in applying to
> before wasting your jury fee money or creating inventory of images
> that probably won't sell. Over time you'll learn which images are the
> most popular and might sell. But you'll also find that it's difficult
> to jury into shows with marketable work or images that look like
> images produced by other photographers.
>
> You don't say where you live but you need to start locally and build
> slowly.
>
> Larry
>
>
>
> >If you could give a mother / son photography team two or three
> >pieces of advice on moving from small arts and crafts shows at high
> >schools and fire halls up to true ART shows what would they be?
> >
> >Here is some background...
>
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