It’s a question we’ve pondered many times. We’re sure that legitimate photographers have wondered this too. Why are the Floris Van Breugels, the Kevin Mcneals, the Ryan Dyars, the Mark Metternichs, and the Adrian Kleins of this world attracted to a fraud like Marc Adamus?
He represents a dream that many of these losers find potent and irresistible. Marc Adamus spins a colorful tale of wilderness adventures, braving the elements for “the shot”, and respecting and protecting wilderness. It’s all a lie, of course, but one that is a siren song to the losers who crowd around Marc and attempt to gain his favor.
Marc Adamus represents a self-defeating way of doing business, but losers do not recognize this. They are intent on making themselves carbon copies of Marc Adamus and enjoying the “fame” they think he commands.
A couple points about Marc Adamus, before we continue:
1. Marc Adamus isn’t even a photographer. Photographers take and sell images. Marc produces extraordinarily photoshopped creations that he can’t sell. These creations can’t even legitimately be called images. Of all the time he spends on this fantasy, actually taking images occupies the least of his time. In addition, the vast majority of his income comes from selling fake photo workshops. Those who can’t do, teach.
2. Marc Adamus isn’t recognized as a great (or even good) photographer by any legitimate media channel of any sort. He has never even had so much as an article in a major newspaper or magazine (loser magazines such as Outdoor Photographer and Popular Photography don’t count….these magazines cater to boneheads, not to the general population).
3. Marc Adamus does not have prints in any legitimate gallery anywhere in the world.
4. Unlike any real photographer, Marc spends thousands of hours on Internet forums, promoting himself and his fake workshops. No real photographers spend any time on forums except to talk about business topics. However, on the Internet, you’ll find plenty of frauds offering to “teach” you about photography in one of their fake workshops.
Now that we’ve gone over that, one might wonder what exactly are the losers trying to copy/emulate? Marc is no success at all. In fact, if he stopped selling workshops, he wouldn’t even be able to pay his rent, much less anything else. It therefore comes as no surprise that the first order of business for a fraud like Mark Metternich or Adrian Klein is to start offering workshops, too. They know they aren’t going to pass muster selling prints or images to the public, but there are losers out there who are naïve enough to believe that these frauds are some sort of legend (only in their own minds).
To recap:
1. Marc Adamus has created a fake persona to give idiots the impression that he’s a highly successful photographer.
2. Marc Adamus is not a success at anything. He’s a school dropout and a liar whose living depends on defrauding the public. Anyone who believes him or emulates his methods is likewise a contemptible fraud.
3. Naïve morons like Adrian Klein, Kevin Mcneal, Mark Metternich, and Ryan Dyar believe Marc Adamus and do their best to copy everything he does.
3. These losers train legions of other losers with their fake “workshops”, the only way any of them can make any money even remotely connected to photography.
4. The legions rush out lustily, dishonestly calling themselves professional photographers, while gleefully indulging in copyright violation, lies, and misrepresentation.
5. An entire industry, with thousands of families and jobs at stake, is threatened by the lust and greed of incompetent, shameless liars.
All this so Marc Adamus can have his dream of being the “most widely recognized and influential photographer of his time”? No thanks, Marc!
Mark has sold his images to enough prestigious publications around the world to make you jealous enough to spew lies like this, that's for sure. His work has continuously appeared in the best of the best out there and you know it.
ReplyDeleteBy the "best of the best out there", we assume you mean Paris & New York galleries and similar?
ReplyDeleteCould you please point out these "prestigious" publications? And by the way, Pro Photo, Outdoor Photographer, and the like, don't actually count.
Mark's work is in National Geographic books, Adventure magazine and calendars too, including covers. Prestigious enough? Oh, also the Sierra Club and he's probably one of the bigger players in Europe's huge fine-art calendar scene. He probably gets more publications in one month than you ever have! I believe he sells images via Getty too. Not many landscape photographers can say that.
ReplyDeleteThat is utter speculation. Getting published once in some magazine is "luck". Real photographers are published dozens of times a month. We especially like the "he's probably one of the bigger players in Europe's huge fine art calendar scene". Right.
ReplyDeleteUmm....he is. Look it up.
ReplyDeleteI take all your points and agree, but I don't understand the conclusion.Marc hasn't stolen Richard Misrach's place as a real artist, and Thomas Kinkade and Bob Ross havent ruined fine art painting.
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