Most art fair guides are written by the people who run them. This one comes from inside the booth. I've spent more than a decade photographing the Pacific Northwest coast, the Rockies, and the desert Southwest, and I sell my limited edition prints directly to collectors, at fairs included...
Ask ten photographers whether matte or glossy prints look better and you’ll get ten confident answers that contradict each other. After two decades of shooting landscapes and printing my own paper editions in-house, here’s mine: neither one wins...
Two images can look identical on your phone. Order one as a poster and it shows up for forty dollars. Order the other as a fine art print and it can run a hundred times that. Same picture, wildly different objects, and the gap confuses almost everyone who asks me about it...
Researchers once timed how long visitors spend with a single work of art at the Metropolitan Museum. The average came in under thirty seconds. Count that out next time you're standing in a gallery...
Most collections don’t begin with a major purchase. They begin with a single photograph that someone keeps coming back to and just feels right. I’ve watched this happen with collectors at every price point...
Choosing art for an office or commercial space requires more than finding an image that looks good on a screen. Scale, materials, subject matter, lighting, viewing distance, and the function of the room all affect how artwork performs once it's installed...
