After Photography

Fred Ritchin's book 'After Photography' fits perfectly with what I am working on at the moment in terms of trying to push photography in a different direction. I'm not sure if the market for photography will be around for ever and it certainly seems like it has peaked and in some ways the rise of the digital camera make it a sort of sell out. Maybe I am wrong and my ignorance to much of the history of photography has made me think like this but I am increasingly worried if I will ever be able to make a career our of photography and when trying to push the dimensions of photography I feel as if I am heading in the right direction.
In Ritchin's book he states,

' As photography is transformed into a variety of emergent media strategies and becomes partially integrated into an increasingly sophisticated multimedia, we should be looking to create more useful, exploratory images, not just the flamboyant, shocking ones.'

I agree with this and feel that as well as exploring our images we should be exploring the medium itself constantly within this ever changing society.