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Winning new clients in 2012
3 January 2012Guest opinion:
Len Grant considers the most effective way to develop your photographic business
New year. New start. It's the time when we all lift our heads up from our day-to-day responsibilities and try and see into the future. Where do we want to be and how are we going to get there?
For professional photographers, I guess, getting some new clients will be one of the new year resolutions. And this year that's going to be tougher than ever. Business development isn't everyone's favourite pastime but, if you're going to make it through this downturn, it has to be near the top of the to-do list.
How British Photography Found Its Voice
1 November 2011Guest opinion:
Paul Hill looks back at a transformative decade in British Photography
The 1970s was, in my opinion, photography’s most important decade of the 20th century. During this period its traditional practices were questioned – even undermined – its profile as a medium of creative self-expression was raised immeasurably, and the teaching of the subject changed beyond recognition. This is my view – partial and self opinionated – but at least I was there, hopefully providing the researchers of today, who have no particular axe to grind, with primary material to help them analyse this exciting era with critical detachment and insight.
The Responsibilities of Photographers
23 October 2011Guest opinion:
Larry Herman explores the crossover of politics and photography
Several years ago I had conversations with a couple of photographers and a painter about issuing a manifesto, publicly declaring our political views as to how photographers (& painters) could work in an overtly political way. We wanted to polemicise against those who advocate variations of that liberal totem: “art for arts sake”. We wanted to expose those who produce work that is ostensibly liberal and perhaps even thought of as being left wing, but is, deceptively, very conservative. The few discussions we had floundered, became confused and would have only befuddled our intended clarity and unity and the idea for our new manifesto rightly died away.
