“I don’t play my eleven best. I play my best eleven.” – Knute Rockne
When you create a photographic project your photographs are a team, not a collection of your greatest hits. There is a time and place for a retrospective collection of your best work, but for the most part those exhibitions are usually for a late career or retired artist. If your goal is a project, then select images that work well together to support the premise of the project.
I have blogged earlier that the great photographs do not arrive by themselves. They come with friends; photographs that were made as part of that creative journey. All the photographs need to work together to create what you want to say to your audience.
You need to be able to distinguish between your best photographs and the best photographs for your exhibition. Selecting photographs and sequencing the photographs to work well together is an art form itself. It’s one of those difficult subjects that cannot be taught but must be learned.
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