Those galleries closed down here to which were specialized to photographic art but still some other commercial galleries show photography now and then (mostly porno or related to that) because its popular for pervo to go and look and pay for the admiision to get in there.
Some places does show prints but it's mostly state or owned by the city councils.
Please don't misunderstand me. I love what I do and my images are nice on my own walls but, exhibitions are costly and if you are not in the business of the commercial photography there you might want to require some new costumers than it's hopples. At least this is the situation in Sweden.
Now I paint and that's how I earn my living its pays my rent but the other of my art just sucks it out of me all the time. I'm at this point thinking of blowing all the exhibition and have that photographic art as for my own satisfaction a relaxation from the terrible boring painting activities. Like the idea is nice and the ready product, your painting too but, the way to get there it's lonely and a real slavery.
But it's wrong!! We should or could earn money because we put in a lot's of effort to get those images. we can't keep them secret as this is our reality, everyday life, documentation of our being as mankind.
Also prints should be long lived not only untill the next technology arrives.
In smaller places like libraries those digitalist's took over and of course they are tough too. They think they are the big one! Artists I mean. Photoshop and no knowledge at all showing photography printed on canvases extremely bad images and they thinks that they are Leonardo Da Vinci.
It's just hit me when I come home from my exhibition In Hungary and melt things down as it's always take some time that the public there received the exhibition far better than the public does it here. Even do that the country had major film manufacturer Forte and there is Argentum cameras made but, 90 % of the photography is made by digital cameras.
The real thing is appreciated and the pinhole drown a cue of people who wanted to view it. Now here in Sweden you probably got beaten by this digi's. ( I call them wannabies)
Of course its all because they must defend their lock of knowledge somehow. They saying things like the film is primitive and they think they are saving the world to. They are environment freaks to you know
There is just one little problem do in their argument that all electronic junk hazardous plastics and other stuff is more problem that those little chemistry we use. Se and read national Geography.
I'm not afraid of what I know but do what I didn't know. So, how many years took before we realized the backside of the DDT or Asbestos for that matter? And tell me what we are going to do with all the junk like sensors plastic and even your monitor which contains Led and the plastic PCB when it burns.
What I wanted to say with this that is if somebody paint than after a while they realize that they are not an artist but digital photographer will never do that and they aggressively kill the traditional photographic art and of course photoshop is a big help to doing so.
And last, there one question. Now why on earth anyone would recreate or forge the reality in order to be called an artist?
) but is it because the 'modern' US (i.e. not counting Native Americans) doesn't have any art 'history' like in Europe? They've only developed in the photographic age rather than having centuries of painters before so they maybe accept photography as normal instead of having to deal with it as "the new upstart" that "isn't proper art" as the snobbish critics keep banging on about in Europe...