From Shoe Repair to Fine Art Prints: Gary Ashton's Journey - Ep. 63

So

I always believe that, you know, you need to print your...

So I always like believe like you need to print more like actually... print your art, whether or not it's like photography, you know, because it's like a tangible thing that you can touch and feel.

Well,

it's the finished product of your photograph.

And, you know, it's great to look at them on the screen, but it's still just a screen.

But when you see it in print, it's just so different.

It's real.

You know, I'd like to do more printing.

Definitely.

But is there a culture of buying

photographs?

I think a lot of it with the mobile phone era now is just literally snap everything on a phone and it's on the screen.

But I think, again, that's my opinion.

But if you go out there to take a nice sunset, for instance, and you nail it and it does what you want, then print it and frame it, print it.

Because

I like I heard in Europe, like the people actually go out and buy photographs.

photographs to decorate their home it's like a practice that would be

cool yeah I mean there's there's people that sell prints here definitely it's it's my personal opinion is people don't put enough value on what that print costs because they think it's just a print but you might have gone out 20 times to get that shot you're walking around with $10,000 with the camera gear you know it's not that you've just rocked up to a place and gone snap there's my shot

right

You know, there could be two hours of editing on that shot.

So there's a lot more, it's a lot more than just a print.

There's a lot of work involved.

Yeah, because for a long time, photography was not considered an art form.

I suppose against people that actually paint, yeah.