On: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 Sion Touhig wrote:- > It's because we have this 'artist / patron' idea of working that we > continually allow clients to screw us down - they kick us and we keep coming > back...which is why the word that pops up often in front of "artist" is > "starving"...
I have actually been called a starving artist by a client, and it is the worst insult imaginable - especially when followed by an all-rights rip off. Up until the early 90's the profession of photography and its allied trades operated as a finely tuned meritocracy. This cosy state of affairs collapsed with the advent of digital and the failure of an older generation to transfer its skills and knowledge to the young. The result is what we have now, and will only change for the better when the young eventually become middle aged. Until then it is a confused, messy and nasty free for all. Anyway, it is all too easy to slip in to a victim mentality about this, and the solution is to never do work for clients in your own hometown. <G> William Curwen http://www.william.ws =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
