Comments on: On the personal project, an ode http://graememitchell.com/blog/on-the-personal-project-an-ode a photographer's footnotes, disjecta membra, et al. Wed, 09 Mar 2011 01:44:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: admin http://graememitchell.com/blog/on-the-personal-project-an-ode/comment-page-1#comment-16403 admin Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:57:55 +0000 http://graememitchell.com/blog/?p=4396#comment-16403 Tough times are the best times to dig deep and remind oneself why you're at it. I mean, once the money and parties stop, once budgets get cut, etc etc, does it turn out you really love ______ photography enough to do it while eating rice and beans and living in a basement in deep Queens... Fashion photography was the big one here in NYC. I saw a lot of guys who were having a focking blast 3-4 years ago, and a bunch of youngsters ready to ride the next big wave. Now I see a lot of people that look tired and like they're asking themselves if it's really something they want to give their life to if the party's busted. Tough times are the best times to dig deep and remind oneself why you’re at it. I mean, once the money and parties stop, once budgets get cut, etc etc, does it turn out you really love ______ photography enough to do it while eating rice and beans and living in a basement in deep Queens…

Fashion photography was the big one here in NYC. I saw a lot of guys who were having a focking blast 3-4 years ago, and a bunch of youngsters ready to ride the next big wave. Now I see a lot of people that look tired and like they’re asking themselves if it’s really something they want to give their life to if the party’s busted.

]]> By: Brandon Daniels http://graememitchell.com/blog/on-the-personal-project-an-ode/comment-page-1#comment-16220 Brandon Daniels Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:23:16 +0000 http://graememitchell.com/blog/?p=4396#comment-16220 Wow!!! Best blog post I've read on photography recently. Thanks for bringing this subject to light because it seems like an "under-discussed" subject online. It seems like the woes in our economy have led to even more emphasis on the desire to shoot for "commercial service." I think commerce has definitely been a springboard to technological advances and creative advances in photography, but I don't think commerce itself should dictate which direction any given photographer should take his/her work, or craft. Instead of straying too far in that direction, I plan on discovering what it's in my nature to shoot. PS - Sort of up your alley is Frank Ockenfels 3's collage and passport work: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2007/12/13/frank-w-ockenfels-3/ http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2009/11/20/frank-w-ockenfels-3-interview/ Wow!!! Best blog post I’ve read on photography recently. Thanks for bringing this subject to light because it seems like an “under-discussed” subject online.

It seems like the woes in our economy have led to even more emphasis on the desire to shoot for “commercial service.” I think commerce has definitely been a springboard to technological advances and creative advances in photography, but I don’t think commerce itself should dictate which direction any given photographer should take his/her work, or craft.

Instead of straying too far in that direction, I plan on discovering what it’s in my nature to shoot.

PS – Sort of up your alley is Frank Ockenfels 3′s collage and passport work:
http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2007/12/13/frank-w-ockenfels-3/
http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2009/11/20/frank-w-ockenfels-3-interview/

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