About Art Competitions<\/p>\n
What to do<\/strong> Waiting to win an art competition is like waiting to win the lottery. \u00a0Granted, you have more chances of winning an art competition than a lottery, but either way you are not in control. \u00a0The judges are in control. All you can do is submit your work then hope for the best.<\/p>\n The first thing you need to do is take control of your destiny. \u00a0Stop waiting for others to make you successful, and take control of your own success. \u00a0That’s what I did. \u00a0I didn’t enter competitions, I didn’t try to get awards or win anything, I looked for ways to sell my work myself and make an income. \u00a0Money is important, because photography is expensive. \u00a0Without earning money from my photography I would have been forced to stop.<\/p>\n This meant I had to study marketing. \u00a0That was my second big break. By studying marketing, I learned how to sell my work. \u00a0Knowing how to sell is not innate. \u00a0I wasn’t born with that knowledge. None of us is! \u00a0It’s something we have to learn, all of us, if we want to sell.<\/p>\n From there, things fell into place. \u00a0I also had to learn how to deal with criticism. \u00a0But that’s another story. \u00a0Here too, it is not innate. \u00a0All of this has to be learned.<\/p>\n Notice that none of this has much to do with photography. Eventually, while photographs are what we do, they are not the only thing we need to focus on.<\/p>\n Alain Briot Subscribe to Reflections:<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nOnly you knows what you want to do. \u00a0All I can do is help you do it by teaching you what I know. \u00a0What I can say is this: without a plan of action that includes specific goals and deadlines, you are unlikely to get anywhere. \u00a0My “big break” happened when I made a plan about how to get what I wanted in photography. \u00a0To this day, everything that I achieved came out of this.<\/p>\n
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