#40 PUBLISH YOUR PHOTOGRAPHY TODAY! HOW?
Today's chat with Blurb Books ambassador Dan Milnor presented ideas that inspired me personally in terms of self-publishing my work and my thoughts. Gone went the, "Oh who would even be interested," concerns I usually have, to be replaced by two words; "What if?" Also, why scarcity can be so powerful. The full length edition of this interview is out Saturday 1st Aug as an Access All Areas weekend episode.
Books.
There’s a wonderful story of a photographer who leaves a photobook at Heathrow airport, London in the arts section within the airside book shop. He can’t get published, his book is turned down by every publisher he approaches. So he creates a few through a books on demand company. He takes those books and leaves them in various book shops including this one at Heathrow. A passenger leafing through the arts section titles picks this book up and takes it to the till to purchase. The cashier looks everywhere for a bar code, can’t find one. The cashier looks it up on their archive system. Can’t find it. Finally perplexed, the cashier says to the customer; “Why don’t you just have it?” That customer turns out to be a mainstream publishing art director and the rest for the author and photographer as they say, is history.
And THAT is creative thinking.
Today’s guest, Dan Milnor is a creative thinker. He starts with his story of the day he decided to quit photography. It was however the start of his new photographic direction and life, bringing self publishing and books on demand publishing to us; photographers.
And there’s a story at the tail end of today’s show, loosely, about the currency of likes, in that sometimes there’s power in scarcity over popularity. You’ll hear what I mean and I’d love to know what you’ve been doing with your own books if you have some ideas to share for the Friday Photowalk edition.
