Several weeks after returning from Beijing, I came up with the idea of selling my photos from the Olympics to an art gallery here in Thailand. There are many, many talented photographers – slowly but surely I’m getting there – but finding a way or a place to sell them to or through is often more difficult than taking the photos. Anyhow, after an afternoon of running around town looking for galleries only to find them closed, I finally came across two respected galleries that were alive and kicking.
After calling Chulalongkorn University, I wasn’t sure whether or not anything would come from the call. A few days later though and to my surprise, they called me back and asked a few questions to better gauge whether or not I was capable of providing photos for a show. Apparently I was. I tried calling them a few days later to get a status report but I had forgotten the person’s name I was dealing with and no one seemed to know anything about any show. The next day though, I got a call from the person I originally spoke with, and after a few calls back and forth, we set up a meeting.
So far what I know is that one other photographer will take part in the show, a Thai photographer I worked with in Beijing. I was only credentialed in boxing, he was credentialed to go to any event. He’s only one person though and you can only be in one place at a time so it worked out well. I was at the Opening Ceremony, he was not. I took photos of non-Thai fighters as well as the Thai fighters, he only took photos of Thai fighters. We’ve got a meeting this coming Thursday and hopefully we’ll have enough photos, large enough photos, and of course, hopefully they’ll feel some of the photos are high enough quality to warrant a show.
If you’d like to see some of the photos that might be in the show, you can view them at:
http://www.lightstalkers.org/galleries/slideshow/15237
Let me know what you think…
Until later…
