Do you hang your own photos on your wall?

Do you hang your own photos on your wall?

  • Yes

    Votes: 288 81.1%

  • No

    Votes: 28 7.9%

  • Not yet, but I'm planning to

    Votes: 39 11.0%
  • Total voters
    355
Yes, I do mat and frame my work and hang it in my home. My wife supports my work and it's hanging all over our home. This gives me more time to look and appraise my photos. I have a couple of photographs by other photographers hanging on my walls too. - jim
 
since 2009 was buying same frame style from Michaels and picking the print winners. Most are from rolleicord, but recent 16x20 from RB67. Finally had enough to bring them all into one room to wrap the dining room and living room like gallery approx 15 total and looks nicely uniform. i figured it is my only shot at exposition. Each time i sit there, am inspired to go shoot and improve, so is really good therapy. i know not everyones cup of tea, but is my only artistic contribution; so there you have it.
 
Of course. If I tire of a photo, it tells me something. As some remain over time, I see my style changing. It's valuable self-reflection.
 
I've got a couple that are from a very small coffehouse show I did years ago that have made it onto the walls. But they are getting pushed out by the art I buy.
 
Mainly family shots

Mainly family shots

And one or two holiday shots , but I am not overly confident enough in my work to hang much beyond that .

James
 
Mostly family pictures, printed size 14R on glossy paper then doff coated. This seems to bring out the best colour yet avoid the shiny reflection of glossy paper. Collage several print into one big frame. Normally I change the pictures once a year.

My wife says the pictures are comforting to her, and brings a homey feeling to our house.
 
I have a lot of my work on my walls. The strange thing is that for all the cameras I've been through; the Hasselblad, the Leica, the Autocord and a variety of other film and DSLRs and lenses, the camera that I've made prints from the most (and by a large margin) has been my Canon s90.
 
my take is, I take pictures so might as well hang some of them on our wall instead of buying them, cheaper and more personalized.
i have 2 24x36 and a 24x48 frames and looking to have some more printed.
 
HuubL said:
I have several of mine printed on large format and framed on walls in my hall and living room. Does that make me pretentious?
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One could argue that photography is inherently pretentious-- taking a photo of what I see to show others. Pretension.

So by hanging a print of my own photo on my wall is no further pretentious than the act of photographing to begin with, leaving us at net zero.
 
I used to be against the idea. But after framing so many prints for shows and not having them sell, I had to do something with them. So yes, I have a couple of my prints framed to fill my white walls.
 
I have many of my own photos on the walls, some from other photographers and a number of drawings and paintings. I have far more stacked up in the attic with insufficient wall space for them. What's the point of taking photos if nobody sees or appreciates them. Not sure about being pretentious and don't care anyway.
 
On the basis that few, if any, other people are ever going to hang my photos on their walls, I might as well hang mine on my own walls.
 
yes, but not in the "public" rooms of the house, so far only in my study/workroom and the upstairs guest room. Previously accumulated art and my wife's antipathy towards my avocation keep the photos upstairs. The rest of my family and some friends display some of my photos more prominently and as their primary "wall art". I don't (to date) sell commercially, and don't expect that will change in the near future, and so am grateful to family and friends for their encouraging support of my work to date.
LJS
 
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