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Shameless Self Promotion

Earlier this month, I discovered that the photo I took for this season’s PCVB cover didn’t actually end up on the cover. I never found out why, but it didn’t. Since it was a photo of a painting, I wasn’t all that devastated.

As a consolation, a much cooler photo ended up on the cover of a much cooler publication. Now while it’s no free pamphlet put out by the visitors and convention bureau, it is some matter of pride that my shots of the band Seizure 17 are featured on the cover and throughout the pages of this months free music pamphlet, the Local Music Compendium. That’s 2 low budget DIY local music ‘magazines’ that have featured my band shots. Sweet. It’s also possible that these same shots will be featured on a popular television show about a month from now… but more on that later.

If this impresses you little, I should have photos in the Philadelphia Business Journal sometime this week. Still not impressed? Later this month, I’ll have photo credit in a coffee table book of… photography. While my contributions are extremely ancillary, it’s still pretty neat.

While I’m publicly padding my online resume here, I’d also like to set the record straight on something. Earlier this year, my place of employment was featured in Time Magazine. Time.com also ran an online slideshow of the things that my place of employment produces. (I don’t want to be too specific, because when I name my place of employment or certain people who work there, it sets off everyone’s google alerts and I have to hear about my website from all my colleagues)

But anyway, image number 17 on Time’s website is mine. It’s credited to someone else. I don’t care that much, because the photo was taken in poor conditions for archival purposes. If I knew it was going to end up where it did, I would have paid closer attention to the whole process of making it. How do these things work? Can I put Time.com on my resume? It is my photo.

If none of these things impress you, then screw you. My photo career is out of its infancy and bobbling around on 2 feet for the first time. It’s past the point of being able to support itself and is beginning to help itself grow on its own. For now, I have to get to work post processing some… photos.

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007 general, promotion Trackback URL for this entry

4 Comments

1. albert replies at 13th November 2007, 9:38 pm :

awesome!
2. Phillybits replies at 14th November 2007, 4:31 pm :

That’s really cool, Steve. You should gripe to TIME though even just to get the proper credit, even if you didn’t personally like the shot.

The question to ask, I guess, is did they have the right to use your photo in the first place? And if they didn’t, but used it anyways, and then credited it to someone else, I’d at least let someone there know about the mistake.
3. Phillybits replies at 14th November 2007, 4:32 pm :

I could only hope one of my pictures would show up in TIME. For some reason, Schmap and DVARP just doesn’t seem to rise to the level of TIME magazine.

For me, anyways. But what do I know?
4. Abbey replies at 15th November 2007, 1:13 am :

Wow Steve
What can I say, but incredible…what a brilliant bunch of artists…It reminds me of the murals in Northern Ireland…
Im a bit like Philly…how can they just credit it to someone else… bit of sloppy professionalism on their part I say..

Anyway, I loved your ’self promotion’…smile
if it counts at all …u have 1 aussie fan in me