I want to talk a little bit today about social media and photography and a couple

videos ago I said something that I've been quoted on and I want to clarify and to

paraphrase what I said it was something to the degree of when you're trying to create meaningful work or work that has

value it's not a popularity contest and don't worry about the social media and I do

mean that when you were trying to create meaningful work, work that has value, the drive should not be in the popularity side of it.

The drive should be in the integrity of the work.

Now, several people in comments had quoted me on that and said and then it kind of escalated

into yeah I deleted my Facebook account and you know yada yada yada.

The issue here is that social media if you want your work to be seen it's extremely important

because it's the system that is in place right now and I know those are two

different things completely they're sharing your work and there's getting your work

scene and there's creating your work and that's what I want to delineate because I do

think it's two different things. If you don't care that your work gets seen

then you don't need to worry about it. And yes, social media in some ways

can be a very frustrating experience.

There are a number of reasons why I think

it's very unnatural for photography

and this is why the world is changing drastically these days in that context.

I think that if you're in there trying to show work that has intelligence behind it,

that has something special to you that you want to share and communicate, you have to realize

that you're in there with kids or photos of people's kids at the pool, cat photos, all that stuff.

And the definition of photography is a lot different in the social media

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