Art Walk – Making public time in the studio work for me.
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So this past First Thursday Art Walk, I had my studio space in 619 Western open. Per usual, I put some work up on the walls for people to look at, and had the artist statement up. All the usual things. But this time, I did something different. Since my studio space is a working studio space, not a gallery, I decided to hold a portrait special for walk-ins during Art Walk. What I did was I had set up the lights and had a pre-designed lighting plan for the evening. I asked people who seemed like they might be interested (which basically meant most people) if they were interested in having their picture taken. Sign here, give me your email and five dollars. Thanks. Okay, stand on the X. Click. click. Click click click. Lots of images taken. Some people paid more to get more photos because they had a great time and wanted more than just one image.
It worked really well. All told, I had plenty of participants, and shot many frames. A few times, I even had a line. That was awesome.
So what gets me about this is that this project is in line with how I like to do the photography thing: showing people themselves in the moment. I had some of those occur. Much fun. I’m thinking that I’ll likely do this again next month. Also, more work will be up on the walls. Good times.
So if you participated in this, what do you think? Did you have fun?
-Gabriel
