The Only Way Out is to Shoot Our Way Out
“It’s the economy stupid” was from the Clinton campaign (Bill’s not Hillary’s) and it is as true today as it was back then. On Monday, I attended the ASMP Chicago/Midwest Soup Kitchen & Town Hall Meeting “On Surviving This Economy (because failure is not an option!)” when Chicago based advertising photographer, Jim Krantz, offered the great advice, to “shoot your way out of this.” He wasn’t referring to the wild, wild west but to the attitude adjustment that we need to make, while continuing to make pictures because that is what we do. Basically “getting off our fear.” I made the point to the crowd, that as photographers much of our work is alone. This is a good time to reach out to your creative community and create real “social networks.” Maybe assemble a team to create new pictures, or get together with a designer and work on portfolios or design projects, maybe offer to shoot their new work for their portfolio. Or it could be an invitation to a group of photographers to talk about photography. Not the business, but the pictures. Remind yourself, why we do this and that shooting our way out is the way to survive.
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That talk sounds interesting. I hope it will appear in NYC as well.
Our chapter put this program together locally (thank you Joe Pobereskin) and was able to capitalized on some national leaders being in town for a different event.
It was a great success and may spawn some group (read chapter) projects. I’d highly suggest other chapter’s put this type of program on so that it brings everyone together to help figure out what can be done. Your local members need you to act as leaders… help them to help themselves.