Posted by Robert Dayton on February 29, 2012 at 6:34 PM
Agora Gallery in New York is showing some interest
in representing me. Have any of you had any experience
with them? If so, what has it been like?
Thank you.
I was approached by them, sometime ago and they ask for huge sum to represent, may be something like US$5000 or so. They are thinking about making some money from you and not other way round.
Jagdeep Rajput
Hello,
They have been contacting me and we have been playing e-mail tag for about 3 weeks now which has been good because since that time I went on Artmine.com and emailed 5 photographers to see what there experience has been. They said it is a very professional gallery but no one is selling any work. I have decided not to join and I will concentrate around my area.
From what I've read it is a "pay to play" venue. Basically you are renting a piece of wall to hang your work in NYC. If you are looking for the prestige of a NYC show without having to crack the gallery scene (read "How to Get Hung" by Molly Barnes for an intro into how that works) and you have the $$$$ to throw at it, then maybe it's for you. I don't have the $$$$ to pay a vanity gallery and the process Molly described in her book made me want to vomit.
I was contacted by Agora a couple of years ago. After reading the fine print, I decided to forego it. It is a 'pay-to-play' deal with little or no return. There are better (read less expensive) ways to market your work. Robert.
Robert, I know I started a thread about them nearly two years ago on here. I keep getting stuff from them. There have been subsequent threads on here as well, so if you did a quick search you'll find a lot of similar responses--though some were positive if I recall in my thread. It's a vanity gallery on steroids.
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9 repliesin representing me. Have any of you had any experience
with them? If so, what has it been like?
Thank you.
Cordially,
Robert Dayton
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Jagdeep Rajput
They have been contacting me and we have been playing e-mail tag for about 3 weeks now which has been good because since that time I went on Artmine.com and emailed 5 photographers to see what there experience has been. They said it is a very professional gallery but no one is selling any work. I have decided not to join and I will concentrate around my area.
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