Anyone with a blog with regular, slightly coherent posts must get a huge mailbag of offers to enhance our search results, requests to feature stuff, and yet more requests to enhance other things. Most of this is off topic, or commercial, or plain cheeky, but a couple of months ago we got this:
Contact Editions is a dynamic online space selling affordable edition prints of emerging artists’ work. Edition releases will be accompanied by a video interview with the photographer about the creation of the image and their creative process, allowing visitors to the site access to an ever increasing archive of contemporary thought in photography, which can be downloaded, embedded in blogs or other sites and viewed over and over again. We want to provide insights into the artists thought processes, the stories behind the images, the intellectual motivations; presenting not only the visual but emphasising the context. Alongside the photographers talking about their work, we have asked professionals within the industry to talk about their roles and to offer advice to artists. By doing this we aim to create an accessible community and resource for both photographers and those inspired by photography.
We also hold regular events to build an off-line community, such as informal crit evenings (next crit is 14th April at 3 Kings pub in Clerkenwell, London), slideshow evenings (next event is 20th April in London) and are soon to start hosting talks.
See here:
www.contacteditions.co.ukAnd our blog:
www.contactcollective.blogspot.com
The image above is from Hin Chua, who says his approach is to: “to pick a spot on a map that could be considered ‘the middle of nowhere’, get there and walk around for several hours photographing what I find”, and it’s part of Contact Editions’ series of prints for £30.
So, a belated congratulations to Emily and Anna on their fine start and their general approach. I’m not 100% sure there was a need for yet another big fat online photography showcase but they are doing it rather well, so keep eye on them, and put their blog in your reader.
Falmouth students wrote too, with this rather clever fundraising idea. They’ve asked photographers to donate recipes, from which they’re making a book to sell. They haven’t worked out how to reply to emails yet, but good luck to them, and their rather sweet polaroid.
Anyone observant might think I’ve stopped completely, stopped blogging, stopped doing anything interesting at any rate, and you may be right, but I am slowly emerging from a state of intense doubt and deep ambivalence and into a state of lesser ambivalence, and somewhat milder doubt. That’s good, or at least it feels less dark.
A change of blog template is great to mark a new beginning, so here we are, emerging from a dark period of soft, pale darkroom prints and into the colours and contrasts of summer. The template width is narrower to fit smaller images here, so it might not hang around for long, but it’s a big change, and here’s hoping for many more. Hoorah.
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