Selling

by Alain Briot
Alain Briot is one of the most successful landscape photographers working in the American Southwest today. His work is widely exhibited and collected. His new monthly column for this web site, of which this is part, is calledBriot's View. An extensive interview with Alain is included in Issue #1 ofThe Luminous Landscape Video Journal.

Salesmanship
 
To sell or not to sell (your photographs), that is the question. Although the implications may not be as far reaching as those faced by Hamlet they still have the potential for keeping us awake at night. In this article I would like to address the main issues associated with deciding to sell your work. To do this I will proceed through a series of simple questions. Think of each question as a fork in the road and of each answer as taking a specific direction at each fork. As I move along this road I will provide my own answers to these questions to point out the path that I am following.
 
When selling directly yo...