And another week has passed. I lost track of time on this article, and wrote most of it today. I swear the weeks are going by faster and faster lately. FJA is now over the 60 follower mark (on Medium), which is great. I’m hoping to see the 100 follower mark reached soon. When that happens, I’ll probably send out a general newsletter letting everyone know. It’s great to see that there are people who are interested in this project.
This week’s Follow Friday article is about photography. I tend to write my theme based on something I’ve written in the past week or so, as it’s easier to come up with ideas based on my own work, rather than pick something out of the blue. This week’s post is no different. I recently started doing some promotional work for BelaCam, which is a social media platform for artists. The main feature that I like about the platform is that it “tokenizes” likes, so that instead of just feeding your nepotism, likes can actually help feed your wallet. It makes likes more valuable so people aren’t just handing them out like something that’s worthless.
Marion Durand is a photographer that I came across while doing research for this article. However, I think that as much as they are a photographer, they’re also a story teller. In “Talking in Pictures” Marion comments on telling a story through pictures.
Solominer is a prolific photographer who posts a lot of their work on publish0x. They do a lot of interesting work with infrared and non-standard photography methods, including using neural networks to alter images.
Vivek Deshmukh’s article isn’t so much about photography, but it does use photography to tell a story. It would be much more difficult to grasp the difficulty of the task of cycling such a road without visually seeing the imagery.
Axe photography is another prolific photographer on publish0x. They have a lot of great work.
More recently I came across Luz, who has a minor obsession with rust. Honestly, I get it. As I said in my response to their work: Rust, and decay in general can be very interesting. You can take a purely visual aspect of it, but there’s also the philosophical aspect of time and nature consuming all things.
Tom Zimberoff provides a detailed commentary on the issues with market value of photography. In many ways it’s true that content is less relevant than placement. It’s hard to monetize content if it’s not in the right place, which is also again why I like BelaCam, and hope that it expands into similar projects to help monetize peoples’ work.
If you’re new to photography, then you might be looking for a camera. There are a few options. Byron suggests the RX100 VII for a reasonably priced compact, professional quality, camera.
Compact, Powerful RX100 VII Launches
The best camera for cyclistsmedium.bikehugger.com
Photography can have a profound impact on peoples’ lives. Chad Cooper, for instance, thought he was going to become a civil engineer, or something along those lines, until he took photography in high school, a decision that led him to becoming a designer instead.
Alright. I think that’s it for this week’s list. As always, there are plenty of other authors that I did not list on here, that produce amazing work. I hope that you’ll let me and others know about them by posting info in the comments. And if you’re looking for a support group for artists, check out The Universal Artist Guild.
