Tulips Two, by Gentle Sea (profile)
Tue, May 22nd, 2007 by Miles
Are You Thirsty?, by En La Recámara (profile)
Mon, May 21st, 2007 by Miles
Wed, May 16th, 2007 by your_waitress
Former Brooklyn based, now Torontonian, photoblogger Jonathan Greenwald of Shrued (profile) is appearing over at La Repubblica, one of Italy's largest newspapers online today. An impressive collection of 25 of his street photographs appear in a gallery that was featured on the front page earlier today, and is now enshrined in the Spettacolie & Cultura foto section. The direct link to the stunning gallery is here.
We emailed Jonathan to ask him about the experience. When first contacted by the Photo Editor at La Repubblica about appearing, his first response was:
"You sure you got the right Jonathan Greenwald?"
Yes, we are sure. Congratulations Jonathan!
Wed, May 16th, 2007 by Miles
Many of you will have heard of the recent changes made at JPG Magazine, a community and print magazine aimed at independent photographers. If you haven't here's a quick guide to what's been going on.
JPG Magazine was started as a labour of love by photo-community perennials Heather Champ and Derek Powazek in 2004 as a vehicle for photobloggers and other online photographers to get their work into print. The magazine quickly became very popular thanks to a simple, elegant and beautiful design. After six successful issues of the magazine a company was formed by Derek and a developer, Paul Cloutier, called 8020 Publishing to publish the magazine and develop new projects using the JPG model. The magazine's web site had a 'web 2.0' makeover that encouraged more active participation from the community in the magazine's content and direction.
Under the new format three more issues were published and everything seemed to be going well. Behind the scenes however it seems there was more than a little disagreement.
It started with some people noticing that the magazine's about pages no longer mentioned Derek or Heather, or the magazine's origins. All mention of the first six issues disappeared from the site also. Shortly after Derek posted this article on his personal web site, explaining that he and Heather had been written out of the magazine's story:
"In one evening, Paul removed issues 1-6 from the JPG website, removed Heather from the About page, and deleted the “Letter from the Editors” that had lived on the site since day one. Paul informed me that we were inventing a new story about how JPG came to be that was all about 8020. He told me not to speak of that walk in Buena Vista, my wife, or anything that came before 8020."
Heather also posted about it an entry on her blog:
" 8020 has decided to rewrite the history of how JPG came into being, removing the original six issues from the site, and any mention of Derek and I.
I've started to get emails asking why I'd quit, so I felt that it was important to publicly state that my departure was as much a surprise to me as it might be to you."
Word quickly spread and intense discussions followed on sites like Digg and Flickr with members proclaiming their disgust at the way Heather, Derek and the community were being treated by the powers that be at the magazine. Scores of members cancelled their accounts at the JPG web site and their subscriptions to the magazine, flooding Flickr with screenshots of the deleted account page.
Later on Tuesday Paul Cloutier gave a formal response through a 8020 Publishing blog post and in a discussion thread in the JPG group on Flickr, stating that there was no attempt to rewrite JPG's history and that:
"Derek and the contributors behind the early issues are a critical part of who we are and the heritage of JPG magazine is not something to be erased or forgotten. The JPG magazine that Derek and Heather created will always be an inspiration to us and we are committed to the principles that they set out."
At the same time the 'about us' page on JPG's web site was edited to include the following paragraph:
"The first version of JPG Magazine was created by the husband and wife team of Derek Powazek and Heather Powazek Champ. It was a quarterly printed publication devoted to brave new photography that took submissions over the internet and printed on good old fashioned paper. It was edited by Derek and Heather, printed in digest format, and sold through Lulu.com."
Forceful discussions are continuing in various internet venues about what all this means for the future of the magazine and its community.
Tue, May 15th, 2007 by Miles
The Day After, by Paulo Jorge Oliveira (profile)
New server!
