This article was published in Professional Imagemaker in November 2011. An extract is available here.

This is a debate that has been raging on for a very long time. I would even dare say that at the moment it is probably hotter than the “is photography art” debate, which I feel has started to settle down, although we all know it will never really end.

I have noticed that over the past weeks/months, the argument of whether a photographic artist should issue work in limited editions has started flaring up again. I have personally had this dilemma from the day I printed my first photograph with the intention of selling it. A few years ago, I had a totally different view, centred around the value of a photograph being bound very strongly with it’s rarity, in the same way that many people prefer to purchase paintings or sculpture because of their uniqueness. Most of my initial work was thus issues in editions of only three.

Today, after many years and maybe some more sense and experience, I have finally decided to put an end to this dilemma. I have made a decision moving forward, and it is to not limit my prints any further. There are many reasons which lead me to this decision, but now that I have made up my mind, it all seems so much clearer to me that I wonder what took me so long to figure it out.

Every year, I try to keep myself on edge by participating in some international competitions. Some are better than others – one of the better ones in my view is the Spider Awards, mostly because the quality of the submissions is quite high. This year I submitted a few images, and to my surprise they all made the final stretch, getting a...

Also this edition of the Jazz Festival is over. As always, it was great fun and great music.

Here are the photos from Day 3.