Portfolio Reviews: Tips & What to Expect

The Dishman Art Museum is my next exhibition: January 15th - February 20th, 2009. It's a group show with Keith Carter as juror. My image was one of 52 selected from all over the U.S. and France. It's good to be in exhibitions with important jurors. The more people you can have look at your work, the better!

I have appointments for mutiple portfolio reviews with photo curators - the right people seeing your portfolio may result in new opportunities and it can be quick and less painful to participate in one of the group sessions with multiple reviews. I like to use paper dividers between each body of work with the name of each group of work and perhaps a short punch list or a few short sentences to give the idea of each so I don't have to say a word or if I can't remember every detail, the main points are listed for the curators and I. If you are seeing multiple curators at an event, there's usually a time limit of 15 to 20 minutes so having printed divider pages can help you to avoid the pitfalls of too much conversation resulting in not getting all your work seen.

Get published!

This image will be in the spring 2009 Spot Magazine published by Houston Center For Photography.

This popped up at Border's Books today. I'd forgotten that during the summer I responded to England's Digital Photographer's ongoing question: Where have all the real photographers gone? My comments were published along with one of my photos. It's a bit exciting and there are lots of magazines and ezines out there just waiting to share your creativity. The subject in the article is a raging debate and you can read my response by clicking onto the image and it will enlarge. I did not get a free copy, subscription or anything but it's a tear sheet and the subject matter is great for conversation.

This travel magazine published my work back in August. This was the last print publication but you can still submit to them as they remain an ezine. I did get paid for this image but they published it without my knowledge!

Hurricane Ike

I was out wandering after the hurricane and saw so many trees destroyed. Try 50% in this infrared photo...One came through my roof in nine places. This image ended up on the online Hurricane Ike exhibition at Houston Center For Photography.