Staying Alive (How to Succeed as a Photographer in Good and Bad Times) April 7, 2009

Cost:
$50.00
$37.00 Lucie Foundation Members
$15.00 Students with valid ID.

Achieving success in photography is never easy. This program will offer tips and strategies that will help you navigate the stormy times ahead. This is a rapidly changing, fear driven business and taking a good picture is not enough. Join Debra Weiss, Creative Consultant, Jigisha Bouverat, Direvtor of Art Buying, TBWA/Chiat Day and photographer Glen Wexler for an in depth discussion on what it will take to succeed in this highly competitive and increasingly impersonal business.

Debra Weiss- Debra was fourteen years old when she stood mesmerized in front of an Edward Steichen print of Greta Garbo at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Steichen had just berated Garbo for showing up at his studio looking a mess. Garbo looked up pulling her hair back off her forehead. Steichen snapped. She didn’t know the story behind that moment in the picture yet, but she knew it was something special. Ever since that day, Debra has had a passion for photographic images that capture essence. She has relentlessly acquired a vast knowledge of photographers and their works and is now a widely recognized consultant working with photographers across the United States and far off places.

Debra has been an agent for some of the top names in the business, a consultant for Black Book and did a stint as CEO of APA National. Besides lecturing, seminars and moderating panels, she now primarily works with photographers one-on-one, helping to guide a photographer’s career as an artist and a business by creating an artistic marketable identity that will improve their opportunities for success. Debra presents seminars annually at PhotoPlus Expo, is a core speaker with PDN On The Road and is a frequent guest speaker at Art Center College of Design and Brooks Institute. She has served as curator for an internationally traveled exhibit of the Best of The International Photography Awards and HARAMBEE! (Come Together) at the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles. Debra joins a list of esteemed industry professionals as a portfolio reviewer for Review LA. She also serves as curator for the PLUS (Picture Licensing Universal System) Coalition Web site and additionally, is the PLUS Industry Committee Coordinator. She has contributed articles to PDN, SparK!, editorialphoto.com and her opinions and perspectives can be read frequently on the EP and APAnet forums. She also sits on advisory boards of PLUS, JPG Images and the Art Institute of CA.

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