{"id":934,"date":"2011-09-01T10:00:46","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/?p=934"},"modified":"2011-09-01T10:00:46","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T14:00:46","slug":"who-is-your-audience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/2011\/09\/01\/who-is-your-audience\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Your Audience?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Anyone who has taught writing or has taken a writing class in the last 20 years will know exactly what is meant by the question, “Who is your audience?” Understand the needs and wants of the people who will be reading your work and it will be more effective and successful, right? Makes perfect sense.<\/p>\n

Last night I was listening to a podcast by landscape photographer Alain Briot<\/a>, and he asked the same question to photographers. “Who is your audience? Who is going to look at your pictures?” I was startled! An audience for my pictures? Well, me of course, maybe my flickr contacts? <\/p>\n

Suddenly the question seemed a lot harder to answer. And if I couldn’t answer it, how could I make photos that would be effective and understood? And what is it exactly that I’m trying to do with photography?<\/p>\n

That’s a lot of questions. And I found a wonderful answer in week two of the The Artist’s Rule<\/a>. She starts with Thomas Moore’s definition of religion as being in service to the mysteries of life: birth, love, suffering, work and death. He concludes:<\/p>\n

The arts serve this kind of religion by giving us strong images for contemplation, for reflecting on the life-defining mysteries, and for educating ourselves so we can live them out more creatively. (Meditations: On the Monk Who Dwells in Daily Life<\/em>)<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, who is my audience? Seekers. Not just “religious” people, not just Christians, but people who are seeking. How will that change what I produce?<\/p>\n

Have you thought about this question? Who is your audience?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anyone who has taught writing or has taken a writing class in the last 20 years will know exactly what is meant by the question, “Who is your audience?” Understand the needs and wants of the people who will be reading your work and it will be more effective and successful, right? Makes perfect sense. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirations","category-photography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2v9Qt-f4","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":942,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions\/942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}