Step away from the pixels
When your photography is supposed to cover your mortgage, rather than just occupy your spare time, there’s a certain amount of pressure to do the things that make money. This often involves taking on things you’d rather not, or which you wouldn’t choose to, just to meet the bills. It is all very well armchair philosophers on the internet proclaiming we can all be whoever we want to be and we should follow our dreams, but that doesn’t always stop the gas being cut off at the end of the month. As a general rule (and it’s only a general rule) the things we enjoy most don’t earn as much money as the things we’d rather swerve, and thus artists sometimes feel the need to compromise their values in order to bring in enough cash to survive.
Simon Lipman enjoys shooting on film. In fact, it isn’t just that he enjoys it, but he feels he makes much better pictures on film than he does using digital cameras. In the past he would shoot the majority of his editorial work on film, but when it came to commercial projects that paid proper money – real jobs – he’d shoot them with digital cameras. He didn’t think the pictures looked as good as the ones he shot on film, but it was what clients expected and they seemed very happy with what he had produced. He wasn’t happy though, so he decided to
