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It is an interesting question, whether an artist should listen to or respond to others' comments and suggestions.

I think it is important that artists have confidence in what they do and follow their own heart - do not pander to an audience, let the small subset of people who share your vision find you.

What I'm trying to say is do what you think is right for you and take no notice of me

mclaudio wrote:

DMillier wrote:

I really like your portfolio based approach. It's a great way of showcasing your careful, related work, images that work together. Striking and elegant.

My only suggestion would be to echo Marco - be careful about repetition, sometimes very good images have to be excluded simply because they are too similar to others.

David and Marco,

many thanks for your feedbacks, I know that repetition or similarities among the images can be seen quite negatively. I don't have a clear position on that, sometimes I hate repetitions, sometimes I cannot conceive a portfolio without them. For instance works like the seascapes of Hiroshi Sugimoto, the woodscapes of Michael Lange, Paul Hart, Pete Davis, Bae Bien-U, or the mountainscapes of Guido Baselgia seem to me so deeply grounded on repetition, on small variations, they would not make sense without them (at least from my point of view). Repetition is functional to "enter" into, to access, their worlds. I'm light years away from these masters, no comparison makes sense, it is just to argue for repetitions (at least is some cases).

Often the first version of my galleries is a little bit redundant. I need some time to revise and refine it (especially if it is the result of a very selective choice, for this one I started from 250 candidates). The feedbacks of other photographers are then very useful and precious.

I thank you and I will thank you again for more precise indications (even though maybe I will not take all of them, I like photography also because there is not photography, there are photographers, I hope as much heterogeneous as possible)

ciao