![]() ![]() Take Your Seat, Canada celebrates the diverse wonders of our incredible country. Presented by: FUJIFILM printlife and SpeedPro Canada Randy VanDerStarren, Tofino, British Columbia Take Your Seat, Canada Admission to our galleries is free of charge and open to all ages. Visit our website to see our full list of exhibitions, classes and events. And hopefully, we will remember that and keep giving the physical photograph the importance it deserves.Neilson Park Creative Centre (NPCC) is pleased to announce its exhibitions for winter 2022. Humans value touch: it’s part of our nature. A print is much more than a piece of paper on the wall. Photography has been devalued over the decades, not just in terms of labor but also in consumption. ![]() But whatever it is, I’ll never stop the fight to remain living in reality. So, maybe I have nothing to worry about after all? Maybe all of this is one big fad that allowed a handful of photographers to grab headlines and make a ton of cash. And sites that allow you to create them are selling a dream of high demand – when the reality is, that’s just not true. The reason why Parker’s quote is important is because it costs to create an NFT. Hiding this information is manipulative, predatory, and harmful, and these NFT sites have a responsibility to surface all this information transparently. They show an acutely minuscule number of artists making a vast amount of wealth off a small number of sales while the majority of artists are being sold a dream of immense profit that is horrifically exaggerated. “These numbers do not show the democratization of wealth thanks to a technological revolution. In her final study, Parker wrote on the topic of sales: When we hear numbers like $20,000 floating around, it’s easy for artists to say, “I want a piece of that!” But high-selling NFTs are rare, and for the most part an NFT goes for $100 or less.Ī Canadian concept artist, Kimberley Parker, did a deep dive into the sales made by artists who were offering NFTs. She has been selling NFTs and was happy to answer some questions I had. I contacted fashion photographer Lindsay Adler. So, I contacted a photographer who has sold an NFT to see if they can shed more light on it and turn my view into a more positive one. Maybe I’m cynical? I may be refusing to keep up with the times. But, I find it sad that the market exists, and society seems to get deeper and deeper into the digital world. If there’s a market for it, power to them. I have no issue with photographers selling NFTs. The packaging, texture of the paper, smell, color, and the fact I have a product that I own is amazing!īut now people have a demand for a product that holds no physical value? I pay money for something that exists on the internet? Sure, I may get a nice certificate stating my ownership, but is that really where our standards are? The feeling I get when I receive my print is euphoric. Some of them from well-known photographers and others from photographers who I admire. Nothing, in my opinion, comes close to a physical image. I already sigh at the fact that it’s normal for us to consume a majority of photography on the internet. Call me a killjoy, but I find this new form of consumption really sad. ![]()
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