On Monday, Jun 23, 2003, at 15:18 Europe/London, matthew ward wrote:
On Monday, June 23, 2003, at 01:57 PM, Mike Russell wrote:
IDEA was open to all comers. AoP awards are (were?) open only to AoP members.You don't think that is a teeny weeny bit simplistic a view by any chance?
It's why they've got members.
This kind of fits in with my reasoning for not renewing with AoP some time ago. Beyond the Lens was, and is, brilliant but I could not see a great deal of active education on its contents to the wider world. The London gallery was of little interest so that left the Awards. When I decided they were the wrong vehicle for me to market myself and I was financially stretched to the limit I had to make the decision not to renew. Yes it was simplistic and I genuinely have no axe to grind.
The new guide may change my view of this considerably. Basically I do not want to market myself through the filter of a judges eye but I do want to market myself along side good photography.
Kind regards
Jonathan Keenan
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