Had a whirlwind trip down to London yesterday to visit the SWPP trade show to have a good nosy at some album and display options for the coming year. It was an exhausting day but worth the journey. Came away with some great product ideas but unfortunately with lots of frustrations too! It’s so challenging trying to upkeep my green business principles when faced with so many overseas album companies. I was delighted though to learn about the launch of a new range of matted albums by a well established UK company who will be producing everything on home soil. The only import item is leather from Italy.
I always find photography trade shows quite "interesting" due to their very male dominated environments – you just learn to take everything with a pinch of salt after a while. At least it wasn’t as bad as Focus can be – a trade show down at the NEC in Feb where you’re subjected to half-naked female models on many of the stands – I put a request in every year for male models to make it fair but no luck yet… Ah the joys of being a girl in what is still very much a boys and their toys world!
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