I have lately taken a habit to carry my showcase of prints to parties, mainly because many of my works just look so much better in A3+ size and print level of detail. In last Friday I was at Taru’s birthday party and unusual luck hit me: two people contacted be after the parties and wanted to buy prints of my work, another of them being a person I first met at the party.
It’s not big money, naturally, but it’s nice that some people who do not know me still like my work enough to pay money for it. And it helps to cover at least the running costs of printing.
So now I can consider me a real artist. How cool is that?
Suviko
December 16th, 2008
Cool. :) Which prints? Link the images from this blog post?
I have sold publishing rights to few of my images, but don’t consider myself an artist. I see myself as an hobbyist, who might become both a journalist, who both writes & shoots for the article. Selling prints… Hmm. If I started a project to do photography that would work as an exhibition…
zds
December 16th, 2008
The line between hobbyist and artist is tough on to determine, I admit that. It’s also to some extend a title you got to earn, you cannot just claim it.
Line between professional photographer and hobbyist is easier to draw, as it’s more determined by if you make your living out of it or not. With artist it’s more fuzzy..
I’d say artist is a person whose work is considered art by large enough group of people. Maybe.