Greg Lato added something on his blog shortly after my post “Has the Photo Market Been Irreversibly Altered?” that extended the topic in an interesting direction. For those that don’t read his blog, but read mine I thought you might find his post “Photography Times…They Are A Changing” of interest. Taking the chain of thought even further Jessica Grieves on her blog, in response to Greg’s thoughts, inquires from her readers what occupational background they’ve come from before pursuing photography as a more serious endeavor. See her blog entry “Internet Bubble“. So for those reading what is your background?
I posted a comment to her entry that was a little lengthy, but I’ll also copy it here…
“It’s great to see the progression of thought around my initial post and where it has been taken particularly in your blog entry. My focus was round the growing perception that photography isn’t anything special and that any monkey can do it. Hence a growing attitude that using imagery for free or for nearly nothing is acceptable.
So to finally answer your question… I started out as a lab researcher in Genetics and later moved into web marketing. Currently I’m a web strategist where I get the opportunity to leverage my creativity in a slightly different way than I do when behind the camera.”
[tags]photography, business, background, occupation, photo, market[/tags]