Naming your price

Yikes!!!!
OK, that's it...no more late night "Twilight Zone" for me!

Asya Schween said:

Well, seriously, I thought that my selfportrait are not ordained by
my desire to impose upon them something. I'm not an
admirer/devotee/pretender
of dark glamour and morbid beauty. I'm continuously producing
selfportraits and sometimes disgust/terrified/upset with them
myself.

990ocity said:

Asya, you are a good girl (photographer too)!
Show us the good!

These photos….they are technically brilliant. And this may be
Asya’s intent, but I find the dark emotive "shock value" of no
value. I don't mean to repress...but life is too short.....just my
opinion.

oh i can feel the flames already!

Ginko said:

Thank you Asya,
I have just spent some time looking through that webpage of yours. WoW
I escaped my day for a while, and took a much needed mental
vacation looking through the pictures. scarey, sweet, soft and
harsh. I would love to hear your process for some of the shots,
although I am sure it may be a very personnal thing. Thanks for
sharing, made my day =)

"Light travels fast but darkness is always there to meet it"

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PowerPet said:

Even if they are dark and freaky, I think they are beautiful. Not
only because they are technically well executed but because this is
how we humans are! We are beatiful and ugly, dark and bright all at
the same time.

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Asya, I am in awe of your talent.

I completely agree with everything that Petra wrote. She said so well what has been on my mind since seeing your web site.

Since you are attending university, I'm sure you can find staff members of a Fine Arts department there who would look at your work and give you some advice about marketing.

Don't let anyone discourage you because your images are not all sweetness and light. Many of the great and enduring works of western art have been on subjects of anguish and pain -- Picasso's "La Guerre", Edvard Munch's "The Scream" to name only two.

Maybe it's time that you prove to your Mom that your talents lie elsewhere than in studies of mathematics -- or maybe you actually need the irritant of the math studies to goad you into this high state of creativity!

Judy

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http://www.JudyArndt.ca/
http://www.pbase.com/judy_arndt

Judy

You not only have a great talent in photography, you also have a great talent in expressingh your thoughts.

Louise Parrish

I, too, have found this very interesting to read all the reactions. It's encouraging to see such different views expressed without getting highly inflamed responses. Thanks for letting me express my view, but also thanks for all being able to say how they feel. Such talent needs to be encouraged. Joan

All I can say is, your pictures scared the crop out of me!

Asya Schween said:

Hi, I think I need an advice. A person asked me if I'd sell him a
couple of my selfportraits, namely, these ones:





I've never ever sold one before, I was giving them out to my icq
pals, sending 'em as quintessential tacky gifts, getting rid of
them by any means possible, etc... but never sold one. There's
something creepy about it, I guess. Trite as it sounds, these
selfportraits are reflections of my own self, grotesque interplay
of my mind and body realities, something rather personal, I
believe. I've never considered selling them until now...

Anyway, the question is rather prosaic - I don't know how much to
charge for 8x10 digital machine type "C" print. Any suggestions?

Thank you, A.

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Those photos are freaky. I don't even know if the OP is a man or a woman in them :-/

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• Jenny

http://www.photoboxgallery.com/jennyhill

Since I saw this post yesterday, I've been to your site 4 times. IMO, this work is great. It's very creative. I think if you price in the $100 range, you're selling yourself short. Take a marketing class along with all that math and put these up on peoples walls. I think if you do, you may see the bank account begin to add up.
Good work.
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Bman

Asya has one of the most amazing galeries I have ever seen!

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Phil A
FCAS Member #100
http://www.pbase.com/philinnz
D100, Sigma 12-24, nikon 50/1.8, Nikon 17-80
cp5000

I will give you $100 plus shipping if you sign it for me.

Philip

--
'I'm Just A Messenger'

-ricK

Fantastic images Asya.

Photographs such as these go for $100.00 or more at local art shows and I've seen them for twice that in Chicago shows.

Thank you.

I believe I've evolved quite a bit in the past two years. I'll post my new series once I'm finished. No selfportraits, I promise

Asya Schween

http://www.MyOwnSelf.com

Thank you!!! My website has mostly old stuff though...

I still shoot obscure selfportraits from time to time but also discovered a new passion - dolls...









I now live in artist-in-residence loft in downtown LA, so Skid Row scenery disctructs me from malignant self portrait obsession:





Asya Schween

http://www.MyOwnSelf.com