Hugo Drax wrote:
Yesterday when I went to a local store to get some chemicals A photo
club must have been meeting or something and the majority of them
were these younger guys dressed in the same style (urban artiste hip
type style, with goatees and the same thick black glasses. It was
weird but interesting. It seems a lot of work is being put to fit
into some kind of artiste stereotype look. Anyone notice this in the
field? Most of the shooters I meet overseas/US on assignment here do
not look at all like that interesting looking crowd.

Going to artwalks in Seattle, my observation has been that the quality of
the work in the gallery is inversely proportional to the quality of the
party and the level of artsie hipster pretense being displayed. Certainly
there are people who are spending more time posing like an artist than being
an artist. But on the flip side, the artists doing their work disappear
from public view, they're too busy. So you are left to observe only poser
photographer stereotypes. The real photographers, I imagine, are out in the
field shooting something and you're not there with them.

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Brandon Van Every Seattle, WA

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