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Old-school photographers grapple with NFTs: New world, new rules

Published 06/23/2022, 09:43 AM
Updated 06/24/2022, 10:20 AM
Old-school photographers grapple with NFTs: New world, new rules

Photography often has to weather disruptive changes from film to digital, for example and photographers find themselves needing to master new technologies or face losing out to more tech-savvy competitors. NFTs are just another transformation in how we consume images. Can photographers adapt and benefit from them?

Coming to grips with the NFT market can give a whole new lease of life to a photographer’s work.

Back in the dark ages

I go back a long time in photography. To the dark ages or at least the darkroom ages, to be more precise when images were analog and negatives or color transparencies had to be developed through some arcane magical process I didnt quite understand. If you had told me you had to wave a Harry Potter wand and shout Developus! I would have believed you.

How do you go about it?

Lava from the collection Abstract Landscapes by Jan Erik Waider, on OpenSea. (Source: Jan Erik Waider)
Basalt by Jan Erik Waider, one of his single editions on Foundation. (Source: Jan Erik Waider)

What are the benefits for creative people?

Scopio founders Nour Chamoun (left) and Christina Hawatmeh (right). (Source: Scop.io)
The Year Time Stopped, featuring F. Dilek Uyar. (Source: Scop.io.)

What are the pitfalls and challenges?

The Year Time Stopped book and NFT photo collection. (Source: Scop.io)

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The audience for NFTs

Save the Planet, an award-winning image by Meric Aktar. A villager waters saplings in an area devastated by wildfire. (Source: Meric Aktar/Scop.io)

Waiders tips for photography NFT noobs

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