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Aziraphale:
I've been slogging through six or seven years' worth of photography, trying to narrow it down to a handful of shots that people might actually, y'know, buy. Any advice from any of you who've sold your own stuff on getting my own work out there? I don't care if your background's in photography, painting, sculpture, or abstract expressionism done with condiments... I'm open to any and all suggestions.

Thanks!

Metope:
You could go around to local cafes, bars and restaurants and ask if they're willing to help you out by putting them on their walls for sale? I've never done this myself, but I know a few people who have done this successfully. Make a website with your photos too, you could also try Etsy if that's your thing.

Or, ask local galleries directly. Just pop by or email with a link to your website, people do that all the time.

Aziraphale:
I'd thought about Etsy (or Red Bubble, or Smugmug, or similar), and am probably going to do something along those lines. There aren't too many galleries locally... I'm not that far from NYC, but at the same time, I don't know that my work's going to quite fit a New York gallery. It's not amateur hour stuff, but it also isn't as self-consciously serious (or as processed and lit to the nines) as a lot of what I'm used to seeing there.

Thanks for the suggestions!

BeoPuppy:
Can we see your pictures?

Aziraphale:

--- Quote from: BeoPuppy on 29 Oct 2014, 08:54 ---Can we see your pictures?

--- End quote ---

Soon. :) My website's in my profile. My Flickr is at https://www.flickr.com/photos/thefirst10000.

With that said, I'm in the process of sorting through stuff, and will probably be tearing down my Flickr album and redoing it (at least temporarily) so I can get critiques from some people here and elsewhere. What's on there now (and on my website, which is meant more to teach photography) isn't necessarily the kind of stuff I'd be selling (with a few possible exceptions, like some of the church shots at the top of the Flickr page). A lot of what's on both sites is older work.

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