Deciding Where to Show Photographs

Video Transcript

"After you've thought of a theme for your work or what your work is going to be, even loosely about, you can begin to collate it and print it and get it together to show somebody who is in charge of where you want your work to be. Now this is a pretty important part of doing all this. If you decide you want to show your work in a coffee shop or even if you want to approach a local gallery, the work you do beforehand, contacting these people, is almost more important than when you show up. And this is really important. I always tell my students as it was told to me that, you make phone calls beforehand or you send emails and inquire about who do I talk to? "Can I make an appointment?" You never just want to show up cold with a box of work and an idea. I mean, that's usually frowned upon even if your work is amazing. But, if you call up, and you make an appointment beforehand and you meet a person there that's in charge of showing work, you're starting off really on a great foot. Now, after you do that, it's very important that you edit your work to have your strongest work possible. And, I'm going to talk about some editing processes that I use so that when I do bring my work to someone, my confidence level is very strong."