I have a photo album on my portfolio website, which I use as part of my online Musician's CV. In the entertainment industry, image is very important. People want to know what you look like as well as what you sound like, and sometimes they rely more on your image than what most sensible people would regard as important things like experience and ability. I try and have a presence on many different forms of media, as it increases the chances of getting the gig and ultimately getting constant bookings and a steady stream of income. It is a very important part of social media, as although some people prefer to remain anonymous in fields such as political and social activism the role of an image can provide the viewer with much more information than typing it out.
As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. And if you put that into the digital realm in terms of data, you have a tangible parameter in the size of the file itself. A text file with a thousand words generally only takes up less than a hundred kilobytes on a disk, a picture of sufficient quality can easily surpass this amount taking up anything to a few hundred megabytes or more. A picture is actually worth much more than a thousand words in the digital age of data alone, and when you consider the scenario of something never truly being deleted once it appears on the Internet in the form of social media it can have a much heavier impact.
Something to think about... Oh and here's the link to my couple of thousand words :-)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/127949528@N07/shares/CAC87W
Darren
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