On Making a Living Through Photography

Aline Smithson at Lenscratch, Joerg Colberg at Conscientious, and Bryan Formhals at La Pura Vida have all recently ignited some frank discussions about the notion of making a living with photography, and the considerations and difficulties therein. See Smithson's "Can We Afford Success?", Colberg's "Money and Art, Art and Money", and Formhals' "The Dreams and Delusions of Photographers".
Obviously these are prominent questions for any of us who read this blog or theirs, as well as the frequent subject of both introspective thought and collective commiseration over a drink with colleagues.
For myself in particular, the path has been winding and arduous, equal parts pleasant surprises plus frustrating dead-ends. Each decision we make along that route is heavily weighted and always hard. The easiest part is the second-guessing.
And its in this very moment of writing that I am in the midst of one such major decision, which has consumed much of my time and energy over the past month, hence the lack of writings here recently. I feel good about the new direction, and I've wasted nothing second guessing this impending change (yet... HA!)
Coming very soon you'll see some updated works from me, new projects, and more. Stay tuned.