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By Alain Briot
1 – Introduction
The concept of audience is one of the most difficult ones to come to terms with for artists and photographers.  In fact, finding and defining an audience is one of the most difficult aspects of doing art.
This problem is not unique to photography.  It is just as problematic for artists working in other mediums.  Many writers for example have difficulties coming to terms with the concept of audience.  When I taught Freshman English (English 101) in college, while working as a graduate teaching assistant during my Masters and PhD studies, audience was one of the most difficult subjects I had to teach.  Not because I didn’t know how to teach it, but because students were reluctant, to say the least, to consider their essays to be written for an outside audience.  In their minds, I, the teacher was their audience.  They did not need, did not want and were not interested in considering any other audience for th...

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Alain Briot creates fine art photographs, teaches workshops and offers DVD tutorials on composition, raw conversion, optimization, printing and marketing. Alain is the author of Mastering Landscape Photography, Mastering Photographic Composition and Marketing Fine Art Photography. All 3 books are available from Alain’s website as well as from most bookstores. You can find more information about Alain's work, writings and tutorials as well as subscribe to Alain’s Free Monthly Newsletter on his <a href="http://www.beautiful-landscape.com/">website</a>. You will receive over 40 essays in PDF format, including chapters from Alain’s books, when you subscribe.
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