My job as an artist is to remain true to who I am, to my vision, and I am constantly told I am not good enough. I am well aware that there is competition, duh photography is the most over saturated field there is, the talent is all over the place.
Can my skills be better? Of course, I am not questioning that, am I better than when I started? Yes. Am I bringing in a new client base? Yes.
Am I sick of being denied a permanent position for something I have been freelancing at for five years? Yes.
But what can I do?
Answer: I am going to keep on with my life and doing what I am because every year I get closer to my goals and have larger and larger successes. Then these assholes who knock my work for being more artistic and not ‘generic’- my word for their bland boring ass idea of photos- can pay a steep steep price for me to hold a camera in their general direction.
I am embracing my work. If I am not good enough for you fine, because bigger entities than you have hired me for my work alone.
A International Photography Competition Honorable Mention in 2016-- Not good enough my ass.