Re: Landscapes of Desire - Call for Entries

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On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 09:08:09 +0100 (CET), Qkano
<snapper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote/replied to:

>Looking back it's not a big deal, but there are so many other "scam" competitions going round it kind of got looked at harder than it should hav

Nothing gets past you, Bob. And I mean that in the nicest way.

Ah gee, I'd like to have some of my shots hanging in the local cafe,
wonder if he'll put them up for less than a hundred bucks a week?

Hmmm, makes you wonder. I guess none of the photographers showing
actually have any reputation or experience, and there's plenty of them
around these days, with the digital ease of cranking out good looking
images, right Bob?

I'll have to get out more, but the last exhibition I saw was in Tokyo
at a pretty famous 'artsy' gallery. They had work by a so called
master, forget his name, but let's just say he sells well, has an
agent, and is pretty well to do. I just didn't get it - to me all the
images looked, well they looked weak and normal all around. Nothing to
get excited about, made me wonder why I'm not in demand and rich too.
Maybe I need a good agent.

I also saw a bunch of stuff by students and other young Tokyo hippies
that made me sick. Well, not sick but it made me wonder why any of
them bothered printing what they had shot. You know the genre, mix of
crude black and white multi exposure, solarized, you name it all over
the place images of young people screaming or crying or flying. Stuff
looked like graffiti. Oh well, we all had to start somewhere.

So seeing a really great exhibition of incredible images would be a
real treat. Maybe the way to see one is to ask if the photographers
had to pay to be shown.


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