Prints a little "off the main track" do sell! Or?

[Andrea Taurisano]

Hello folk

I had thought of doing this many times and always changed my mind in time, but today I finally did it: I had a little stand at a popular Sunday market downtown in Oslo, where I displayed 13x18cm prints of pinhole shots and a couple of double exposures.

I was expecting little excitment about those unusual prints, which were even more unusual as I made them on rather rough rice paper, other fiber-rich paper from Nepal and so on. Well, I got a lot of very positive feedback and even sold almost 20 of them in 5 hours. Nothing to brag about, not to mention to live out of.. but hey, those prints did seem to have a charm on many people. To the point that for a short while I even dreamt of doing this on regular base and make it a stable part of my incomes.. But perhaps I was just lucky today. Feel free to share your experience or thoughts on this..

 

[Daniel Teoli Jr.]

I got one of your Japan books. You do some nice work all around.

Sure, sell all the prints you can, put the photos to use and put some $ in your pocket. Use the $ you make to document more of the world.

My photos are of the ugly social doc variety. They don't usually sell like the ones do at a craft fair.

Liked your site and the Afghanistan pix. Will check out the rest when I get more time.

 

[Steveh]

Having spent some time on your site in the past admiring your work this doesn't surprise me at all, given the quality of your images. They are quite unusual and edgy but also extremely well done, which is important too. Congratulations on the sales!

 

[daveleo]

I also enjoy the work on your website. Very nice stuff !

 

[paulfish4570]

good on you, andrea ...

 

[paulfish4570]

by the way, i like sea hawk and gothic oslo on your site ...

 

[Rick Waldroup]

Excellent work as always, Andrea. And congratulations on the print sales.

By the way, if anyone is interested, do yourself a favor and get a copy of Andrea's, "The Japan Book". I purchased mine about a year ago. Great stuff.

 

[Andrea Taurisano]

Well, thanks a lot everyone. Believe it or not, having a decent salary from my ordinary job, what pleased me most at the market yesterday was realising that there are a number of people who still would buy a photo print at all! I was simply assuming that no one would pay 20 dollars for a little print of someone else's images, but that's not completely right. And that, along with some encouraging signals from film production and sale, makes me rejoy 🙂