Today we’d like to introduce you to Walter Bibikow.
Walter, let’s start with your story. We’d love to hear how you got started and how the journey has been so far.
I had started as a photographer for the local Boston ABC-TV affiliate in the late 1970s. After 3 years it was time to move on and I started my studio as a commercial photographer in the same building where I still live and work. Back then I worked on advertising campaigns, corporate annual reports, and editorial assignments. I started selling some of my work as stock photography in the 1980s (first sale was to Playboy Magazine) and I am still at it, traveling 5 months of the year around the world, exploring and looking!
Has it been a smooth road?
The usual ups and downs of any business coupled with the strange dynamics of the creative field. Tastes change, clients change, the world changes. Would be a dull place if things never changed, eh?
We’d love to hear more about your business.
I currently market my photography through a handful of stock photo agents in both the US and around the world. Diversifying my work with many agents over the years has helped tremendously in weathering changes in the photography market over the years.
I’d say that I’m proudest of my work ethic. I work very long hours and I enjoy having the need to really experience the cultures through which I travel. I walk a lot and I shoot a lot. It’s a living and it’s a life.
Is our city a good place to do what you do?
Sorry, but I don’t think that any particular city makes much of a difference for what I do. Certainly to assignment photographers being near clients that could use their work is great, but with the web I sell everywhere and just like living here in New England and in Boston. When I am in town I don’t need a car and can walk everywhere. It’s a great peace of mind living in a manageable, not too hectic place.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.bibikow.com
Image Credit:
‘Copyright Walter Bibikow 2017’
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