28 Jun 07 To Market and Stuff
Unfortunately I haven’t taken time to write here lately, mostly because I’ve been busy with many photography-related things.
As I believe I mentioned before, I am a member of the London Independent Photography organisation. Apart from participating in a few workshops with the group I also design and maintain the organisation’s website and am part of the committee. The website work comes in spurts but is quite involved and fun to do.
To satisfy my entrepreneurial spirit I have so far turned out to sell prints at market three times - twice at Spitalfields and once at Greenwich. It takes some practice and hard work to perfect presentation at a market stall, since they are rented either as very bare-boned, unsightly tables or weather-beaten standup display panels. Thankfully I have been working with a partner and two minds solve these challenges better than one! Our two Fridays at Spitalfields were very slow for trade but allowed us to work out most of the display glitches that we needed to.
Our Greenwich Market experience was phenomenally fun, busy and fruitful and the satisfaction of selling a print makes up for all troubles that come with being a market vendor! We will be back at Greenwich on the next two Sundays and prepared better than ever to make sales…. currently the second bedroom at home resembles an assembly line / inventory warehouse ;)
My market partner and I also have a small exhibition hanging on a lovely brick wall in a cafe in Clerkenwell at the moment. It’s an especially nice spot considering the busy clientele of graphic designers and media people working in the area. We hung the pieces Sunday and by Monday morning my partner had already made a sale, so it was a fine start indeed.
Other random stuff going on: The LIP annual group exhibition is approaching fast and I will need to work out my submissions for that shortly; I am revamping my own website to function more as a portfolio, including some fashion portrait images; I have been assisting another photographer to edit his book about London’s West End which has 80ish photographs.
Now I just need to get out and take more pictures…
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