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What Is The Future Of Photography? PDF Print E-mail
Written by Joel Grimes   

If you have been around the photographic industry for any length of time, you have to be wondering what in the world is going on out there. With more and more photographers flooding the marketplace, how will we all survive?  What will the photographic industry look like in the near future?  Our best hope for understanding what tomorrow will bring is looking to the past.  History, my friends, will give us the best clue to what the future will hold.

To illustrate this, let us take a look at what took place in the early eighties about the time I was just starting out as a photographer.  I remember there was this new buzz that permeated the photographic circles.  It was to change the future of photography, and sure enough, it did.  It was this thing called “Stock Photography”.  Just about every photographer I knew was trying to get on the bandwagon.  It also opened a floodgate for droves of new photographers trying to get a piece of the action.  Its negative impact on the photographic industry was far greater that anyone could have ever imagined.  

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Joel Grimes
About the author:

Joel Grimes has been working as a commercial photographer for over 20 years.  In 1984 he graduated from the University of Arizona with a BFA in Photography.  After a short stint assisting in LA, Joel established a photo studio in Denver and began working in the advertising and corporate markets.  Over the years his assignments have taken him to nearly every state across the USA and to over fifty countries around the globe.

In 1990 Joel produced his first coffee table book, ‘Navajo, Portrait of a Nation’ which received a number of photographic and design awards and produce an eighteen-month solo exhibit at the Smithsonian American History museum.

Currently, Joel resides in Tucson with his wife and their four children. 

Visit Joel's Website to see more of his work at www.joelgrimes.com  

 
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