Photographers that print your work or make photo books, but don’t have enough of a following to sell them… What do you do with them?
I really liked printing my photos in collage when we would do critiques, but since then I haven’t really printed anything because the cost hasn’t felt worth it. I like the idea of doing books or zines, but don’t have anyone to share them with (friends/family will flip through once, but are otherwise not that interested). I’ve thought about looking into local art fairs, that kind of thing, but am not sure my work is good enough to sell. I simply can’t afford to print 100 copies only to sell one or two haha!
What do you all do? Or is having the physical copy for yourself enough?
For high-quality one-offs you can use Blurb or Cewe or Saal or (my favourite) Fujiprint. Then after that you Print on Demand, in other words you only have the printer print more copies as you sell them, or even only after you’ve sold them. When you want 10-20 or so copies, have your local print shop make you bound booklets on glossy paper (softcover).
But forget about selling them, it’s basically never going to happen, unless your market/audience is very niche indeed.