Click on image above to view a Flash slide showof the 12"X12" Pikto book layout which I created.Photographers want to show and share their work. This can be accomplished though gallery shows, online web galleries as well as print and portfolio sales. But there's something about a book that calls to a lot of photographers as a means of sharing their work with a potential audience.

Also, for some photographers small runs of books can be very worthwhile sources of revenue. This includes wedding photographers, for whom book sales can be a major income producer. Professional photographers use such books as handy portfolios when seeing clients, and for fine art photographers seeking representation they can serve as convenient and impressive portfolios.

Of course the cost of producing and printing offset print runs of necessarily large quantities of photo books is usually prohibitive, though possible as I pointed out in my 2005 article onPrivate Photographic Book Publishing....