Way back in the last century, we went through a business fad on “Continuous Quality Improvement.” It was in response to the success of Japanese businesses and how they were managed. The key thought was that quality was measured as conformance to requirements. In short, you or your product met requirements, you had a quality result and people would beat a path to your door.
With photographic art, there are multiple requirements and multiple audiences all with different ideas on what constitutes quality. There are those that think gallery representation is the ultimate goal, there are those that think that running a workshop is the epitome of photographic life. There are those that authoring think photographic books is the cat’s meow. Multiple people, all with differing thoughts on achieving success.
But what about you? What do you think being successful as a photographer means? How do you measure your success? Is it happiness in creating something beautiful? Is it providing a living for your family through your photographic skills? Is it having a good time photographing with a group of your friends? Do you like the challenge of creating art? Or do you just do what you want to do, put the resulting art out there in the world and hope for the best?
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