Vintage..

Square Trees, Palm Springs 2000

I don’t often look back at old work these days. I guess if I made images of people it may be a little different, but with my kind of landscape there’s not really a sense of remember this, or remember that. But in truth, that old work just doesn’t motivate me like it used to. Besides that, the work always had a limited audience. It was never the kind of work hundreds queue up to see. But there is an irony here in that limited work is what people buy, and that audience is very limited. The people paying big money for a print are not scrolling Instagram and certainly not looking for who has the most followers and likes. In fact the people I am talking about probably don’t have an email account and still send postcards.

I used to think that the internet killed the fine art market in photography, but the market never went away, it was just been pushed aside by the bombardment of new digital imagery.

For the purposes of the internet, the image above is a digital, but the print itself is a C-Type (chemically produced) printed by hand, by me, from a negative. The print will outlast any modern inkjet print and I doubt if I will print another. It is a vintage print, and that’s what people buy.

After 20 plus years, my old work now has value. But whether or not someone wants it is another question..