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In 2021, I was selected to attend the Innovators Forum – a leadership summit of 28 teens from First Tee chapters across the country. I spent the week in San Jose, California learning about innovation, leadership, and sustainability. Each of us First Tee students were tasked with developing our own innovative service projects to implement in our communities.
Menlo Park, CA, April 20, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Zenfolio, the market leader in creative and business solutions for photographers, is pleased to announce the release of its latest State of the Photography Industry Report. The report provides insights into the photography industry from the perspectives of professional photographers and their businesses, and is the fourth conducted since 2021.
The report is derived from survey participants who primarily specialize in Portrait, Landscape, Wedding, Sports, and Family photography. The survey respondents were mostly part-time or full-time self-employed with more than 10 years of experience. The 2023 report covers a variety of topics, including business trends, marketing, revenue, pricing, technology, and photographers’ sentiments about using artificial intelligence (AI).
Main highlights:
Almost 20% of Photographers surveyed in Q1 2023 reported their business had increased from a year ago. However, many are still grappling with the aftereffects of Covid and the impact of rising inflation. 66.6% of photographers reported that their businesses were either slower or performing as expected.
Photographers making at least $100K saw clear revenue increases over the past year. Across all other brackets, 40% reported that revenue decreased. However, this number marks an improvement from the previous year, when 76.2% of all surveyed photographers had reported a negative impact on their revenue
AI is being embraced by the industry. Almost 50% reported that they have integrated AI into their photography workflows, and only 11% see AI developments as having a negative impact on photographers.
Marketing strategies have shifted. Photographers are relying more on non-paid or organic social media over paid ads for marketing their business.
Mirrorless Cameras continue to gain ground on DSLRs. Mirrorless cameras are shaking up the professional photography industry, challenging traditional DSLRs. While 50% of photographers still prefer DSLRs, mirrorless cameras are rapidly gaining ground, with 41% of photographers now choosing this newer option. This represents a significant increase of 50.7% in mirrorless camera usage compared to the last survey.
Is AI the solution to photographers’ biggest pet peeve? If photographers could choose one thing to spend less time doing, 41% of photographers want to spend less time editing. 34% say they are using AI to help them with this tedious task.
“We are excited to share our findings from the 2023 State of the Photography Industry survey,” said Jason Egnal, CMO of Zenfolio. “The report provides valuable insights into the photography industry and the trends that are shaping it. We created this report to help photographers better understand their industry so they can make informed decisions about their businesses.”
The full 2023 State of the Photography Industry Report and the previous reports, can be viewed at Zenfolio.com/SOPI. Zenfolio is committed to helping aspiring and professional photographers succeed in their businesses and will continue to provide resources and tools to support them.
About Zenfolio
Zenfolio.com is an all-in-one portfolio and website builder with a full suite of advanced business and e-commerce solutions for photographers to showcase their work, manage their business, and build their brand. For almost two decades, Zenfolio has proudly served photographers around the globe.
Zenfolio brands and services include Format.com, a portfolio website solution with marketing and studio management tools for all creative professionals, PhotoRefine.ai, advanced AI technology that takes the work out of grouping, rating and culling images, PhotoBooker.com, a resource to find and book local photographers, and PrintsMarketplace.com, an online gallery that sells museum grade prints from artists and photographers around the world.
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Artworks, clockwise from left: “Endeavor to Persevere” by Bruce Wallace, “Hyner View” by Dean Marshall and “Becoming” by Pam Dillet are inset against the image of Earth captured by the Apollo 17 crew as they were traveling towards the moon in 1972.
LOCK HAVEN — The Clinton County Arts Council’s juried photography show has become an event that many look forward to every year.
It not only showcases the work of talented photographers in our area; it also provides an opportunity for visitors to Lock Haven’s Station Gallery, 2 E. Bald Eagle St., to view the world in fresh and sometimes surprising ways.
The theme of this year’s photo show is “Worth Protecting.” Since the start of the show corresponds to the CCAC’s annual Earth Day celebration, its highlighting those many things in our lives that are worth protecting from the effects of climate change and environmental damage — with an emphasis on the precious, the fleeting, the precarious and the fragile, as well as the persistent and the tenacious.
This year’s show features close-ups of natural wonders, stunning portraits, meditative reflections and local scenes from a variety of both interesting and inspiring perspectives.
Nature, as seen through the lenses of this year’s photographers, can be magical; it can also be provocative.
“We invite you to think along with us about the natural world and our place in it,” a release from the CCAC said.
The exhibit will officially begin with an opening reception at the Station Gallery on Friday, April 21, at 6 p.m.
This year’s judges will be Steve Getz and Rich Wykoff.
Steve was recently elected as the CCAC Board President. A graduate of Lycoming College, he has been a professional artist and marketer for over 40 years. He has worked with companies including Sesame Street, Universal Studios, Mattel Toys and Marvel Comics in product development, design, licensing, photo styling, corporate branding and advertising. As a fine artist, his primary focus has been oil and digital painting, photography and graphic arts. His work has been shown throughout our region, and he is the recipient of the prestigious PA Wilds Artisan of the Year Award.
Steve has served as a jury or awards judge for many fine art and photography exhibits throughout the region.
These have included the CCAC/Keystone Central Annual Student exhibits, the Northern Tier Student regional art exhibit at the Gmeiner Gallery in Wellsboro, the Hameau Retreat Plein Air exhibit, the CCAC regional photography and art exhibits and the Shutterbugs Annual Photography exhibit at the Taber Museum in Williamsport.
Over the past year, he served as the awards judge for the Art Alliance Figurative Exhibition and was co-judge for the Images 2022 Juried Exhibition, which is part of the Central PA Festival of the Arts in State College.
Rich Wykoff is a retired elementary teacher and has been a CCAC board member for 15 years. He received a B.S. in Elementary Education from Lock Haven State College, an M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction from Penn State, and was a PhD candidate in Instructional Systems at Penn State.
Rich has a life-long interest in the arts. In high school it was music and theater. In college he took electives in graphic design and painting and assisted in building the “Cactus Rose” fountain that is in the patio at Raub Hall.
Since the late 1970s, he has been involved with mural projects at Renovo Elementary, Dickey Elementary, Renovo Library, 16th Street Park in Renovo, the Railroad Heritage mural at Lingle’s at 16th Street and the WWII Fly Boys mural that will be unveiled May 28 at Tony’s Hardware in Renovo.
Photography has been an interest since childhood when his mother taught him how to use her box camera. His primary interest is landscape photography and covering events. As a member of the CCAC Education Committee, he coordinates the annual “Shutterflies” summer photo camp for middle school students.
The judges will award the prizes for the show at 7 p.m. at Friday’s opening, after which they will talk about the decisions they made in their judging.
A People’s Choice contest will follow, in which participants will vote for their favorite images. Ribbons for People’s Choice will be given out at the end of the night for those photos that receive the most votes.
This year’s show will be sponsored once again by Robert C. Gleghorn, President and Principal Agent of the Mountain Top Insurance Agency, Inc.
“We are extremely grateful for Mr. Gleghorn’s continuing support for our photo show,” said Carol Cillo, board member and past president of the Arts Council.
The exhibit is free of charge. The public is invited to attend the reception to see the show, have some refreshments, talk with the photographers and vote for the images they like best.
April 20, 2023
Randi Sparks, the owner of Pyrogenic Arts, has always been a creative person. After attaining a degree in art and spending some time teaching, she decided it was time to begin pursuing her own creative path. She started Pyrogenic Arts as a way to take care of the professional side of creating in a legitimate way.
Pyrogenic Arts is a creative company that sells colorful, hand-made ceramic objects, fiber art and jewelry inspired by nature, anatomy and horror/sci-fi/fantasy pop culture. Sparks is able to put her own creativity into every object she makes in order to provide the most unique, high-quality product to each customer.
Sparks first came to the Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center at the U of A looking for help with the business’ financials. Stephanie Parsons, business consultant for the center, assisted her by running a financial analysis of the business and walking her through the next steps. At first, taxes seemed daunting to Sparks, but Parsons boosted her confidence in being able to run her business and understand them.
“This year, I felt so much more confident about doing [my taxes] and helping other creatives feel better about the process too!”
Since starting her business, Sparks has taken many steps in order to make sure it would be successful. Between consultations from the Small Business and Technology Development Center and Fayetteville Public Library’s “From Maker to Market,” Sparks has learned how to navigate many entrepreneurial challenges such as tracking expenses, filing taxes, starting an LLC, marketing and setting costs for products.
“Cultivate community,” Sparks said. “Spend more time marketing your work to the people who will get it and appreciate it the most.”
Sparks states that she feels lucky to have the Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center as a free resource in the community, filled with knowledgeable people who are happy to help business owners learn and answer any questions. The consultants with the ASBTDC will always do the research to make sure every business owner is able to find the right information they need, no matter the situation.
Visit the Pyrogenic Arts website.
About the Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center at the University of Arkansas: The Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center, UAF helps small business in Northwest Arkansas thrive. With offices in Fayetteville and Bentonville, ASBTDC consultants provide one-on-one confidential consulting and guidance to current and prospective business owners in Benton, Boone, Carroll, Madison, Newton, and Washington counties. The center offers in-person and virtual trainings and workshops to help entrepreneurs gain the knowledge and skill necessary for success. The Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, is funded in part through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration through a partnership with the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and is a unit of the Division of Economic Development, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
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The Middle St. Gallery in Washington will show black-and-white portraits by photographer Susan Raines from April 21 through May 28. Gallery member Paulo Neuhaus will also offer a small collection of his photographs along with works by other members of the non-profit artists’ cooperative.
Raines’s show, “Out and About in Black and White,” offers portraits made over many years, some for publication in newspapers and magazines and others for a calendar of Atlanta bars. Many of the photos are part of her ongoing personal series of portraits; they are not studio portraits but are of people in their every-day settings – such as dressing rooms, bars, restaurants, a Navajo reservation.
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Native American artist Leonard Harmon can tell you precisely the moment his life as an artist changed. He’d been invited to Indigenous People’s Day at the 21c Museum Hotel in Cincinnati. He’d taken some of the quill art he’d become known for, as well as a couple of mixed media paintings.
“The director said to me, ‘What else do you have?,’” Harmon recalled. “I couldn’t answer the question. I didn’t have anything. They said, ‘You need to get to work.’ I started painting and focusing on just that. By the sixth or seventh painting, they took it automatically and put it in the museum.”
Harmon’s show This One’s For You – Honoring Ancestors opens Friday, April 21, with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m., in the Newport Visual Arts Center and continues through May 28. We talked with Harmon about his art, his inspiration, and his move to Oregon. His comments have been lightly edited for length and clarity.
Tell us a bit about life before Oregon.
Harmon: I was born in Philadelphia, grew up in Washington, D.C., and Millsboro, Delaware. I’m a citizen of the Nanticoke Tribe of Millsboro, and the Lenape Tribe of New Jersey. I come from a long line of artists. My namesake was Leonard Allen Harmon. He was doing his work in the mid ‘70s to early ‘80s. A lot was featured in Native American magazines and also at the Heard Museum. Tragically, he died from AIDs in the mid ‘80s. My father did Native American furniture and he would paint on the tops. He was a big deal in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. He took his life in 2007. So, I have all this art in my background. I’m really the last one to carry on that arc in the family. That’s what my art is about, carrying on those traditions in my family.
How have you developed as an artist?
I’m self-taught. I started in my teens as a DJ; I considered that an art. I started taking art seriously in my early 20s. I started porcupine quills in 2011. It just came naturally to me. It’s the same thing with painting. I’ve only been painting for 2-1/2 years. When I picked up a paintbrush for the first time, it just clicked. It’s so embedded in my DNA to be an artist.
What inspires you?
I think my uncle really inspires my work the most. I had a really tight connection with him for the four years I was alive before he passed. The day I was born, my mom saw him in me. That is what inspires me the most.
Where else have you shown your work?
Right now, I have work at 21c Museum Hotel in Cincinnati for a show called Refuge: Needing, Seeking, Creating Shelter. I have two pieces at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art in New Haven [Conn.] at a show called Truth in Three Colors, and I have a live show coming up at 21c in Cincinnati where I’ll do a live 4-by-8-foot painting.
You’ve been living on the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians’ reservation in Siletz for about three years. What brought you west?
In the early 2000s, I got connected with a Siletz tribal member. I was living in Delaware and I was known for my pine-needle baskets. It’s cool, because basket-making is one of the Siletz tribe’s biggest mediums and one of their oldest. She had seen my work on Instagram. She asked me to make some earrings. I told her we’d make a trade. So, she made something for me, and I made a few things for her. And then we just stayed friends, and I started coming out to visit. I realized this is where I should be.
You mentioned you feel a certain connection to the area.
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Newport reminds me of the Ocean City, Maryland, fishing port or Rehoboth Beach. My Uncle Tyrone owned a fishing marina in Rehoboth, and as a kid, I would come from D.C. and work on the docks for the summer.
And there’s also a sort of Rick Bartow connection?
Right. When I went to the Heard Museum, they gave me a bunch of magazines. And in every one, Rick and my Uncle Leonard were together. There’d be a story on Rick Bartow on one page, and on the next page, a story on Leonard Harmon. I have the feeling they knew each other, because my uncle would move up and down the West Coast and visit artists. I would have loved to have met Rick [who died in 2016] and asked if he knew my uncle.
Many of the paintings in This One’s for You feature a strip of red. What is the significance of that?
The theme of the show is connecting with my family’s past and looking toward the future. The red signifies the bloodline that runs through us as human beings, not just being an Indigenous person and those types of lines, but the root of it all, where we all come from.
