Hi, I am
Mareen, a then 23-year-old female photographer from Germany.
This tumblelog started with a question I raised
in my personal tumblelog in 2007.
The
idea is:
I would like to know why people feel the need to compare me to "real" photographers.
Comparing not in the sense of style or something, but as a different demographic (like, 35+ and male).
Just want to save the answers and think about it.
I have had several encounters where clients treated me like a child or thought I was the know-it-all intern of Mareen Fischinger.
So far, everyone here is stating the problem.
Need to find a solution.
Because letting your work speak for itself only works when the people you are supposed to deal with know it. But then it works really well! :)
More email or repost responses welcome.
I will post them here.
myfirstname.fischinger @ google’s email service
Being in the graphic business I tend to deal a lot with photographers. Maybe I can give a little explanation to your question (I hope it makes sense though, because this is just my personal experience);
Most photographers, especially product-photographers but some fashion photographers as well, are exactly what you wrote in your little post. 35+ and male. I have no idea why to be honest, but about 80% of all the photographers I’ve seen all fit into that category, so it’s probably nothing more then a stereotype of what people expect to see when they imagine what a photographer should be like.
A bit like artists actually… a lot of people think/feel that an artist is someone who’s walking on thin air with a joint in one hand and a pencil in the other, while blabbering nonsense about anything that comes to their mind. :)
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