Blog About Photography

Alina Pride

Start­ing tomor­row and then on in per­pe­tu­ity, I’m curat­ing the lit­tle Pic­ture of the Day fea­ture on Chief Magazine’s web­site. So please, one and all, start sub­mit­ting things to potd@​cheifmag.​com.

I keep a run­ning list of poten­tial titles for things as I think of them. It’s got­ten pretty long at this point and it’s prob­a­bly safe to say I will never in my life cre­ate as many projects as I’ve thought of titles for. I wish I was as good at tak­ing pic­tures as I am at think­ing of titles and also if I could go into busi­ness writ­ing titles, I would prob­a­bly make a mil­lion dollars.

I’m sit­ting behind the desk at the Bond Street Gallery right now. There’s an art walk going on in the area so there’s more peo­ple com­ing in and out of here than usual. The ques­tion I’ve been asked today more times than any other is, “Are you the photographer?”

Why are peo­ple ask­ing me this? Are they retarded? Have they never been in a gallery before? Is it that shock­ing that there would be a com­mer­cial space in Brook­lyn? I don’t under­stand, but the next per­son to ask me this ques­tion is going to get punched in the face.