You Can Take It With You!
All photographs ©2009 Erin Karp. Erin, who's been working on her photography with me for two semesters now, wrote with a story that illustrates a core concept we've been discussing, namely: take your work with you everywhere! At the cafe where she's dialing out the espresso, a customer offhandedly quips about work and busyness, and Erin replies something inconsequential about how the day is going, as one does, and then mentions that she's an aspiring photographer using the barrista gig to support the picture-making. Erin writes: We continued and he asks if I saw his collection of photos at ICP's museum recently. I say, "Oh! You're a photographer?" He says, "No, I'm a collector!" I say, "Wow, cool! Want to see my portfolio?" Haha. And so he looked at my photos and started to say, "Oh, these are pretty, but you've got to find a new way to depict the flowers since so many photographers shoot them." Valid point.