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Times Square & Artists Wanted Competition
I’ve entered another competition.
Competitions seem to have multiplied exponentially since the take off of web 2.0. I’ve yet to get anywhere, and wonder how you can catch the eye of the public and then the judges when you are competing agains the whole world! This current competition is run by Artists Wanted uses the now familiar crowd sourcing approach. Get ‘seen’ or in this competitions case, ‘collected’ enough, you go through to the next level of the competition, which is a chance at having your for work exhibited in Times Square.
Crowd sourcing is great. The trouble is, while a single outstanding picture is a wonderful thing they are very common now. With the proliferation of photographic devices the odds of capturing a decisive moment or or heart pulling image is also increased, but that is not the only sole factor in creating a good or interesting photograph in my humble opinion.
Ideas are what make pictures interesting, but how do you get an idea across in a single image? A single image that will stand out amongst the millions around you? What if your idea requires some knowledge of the history of the medium? How many people voting will be aware of these things, and what about peoples ideas about what constitutes a good photograph?
Well for better or worse I’ve entered, so go have a look, it was a tough call picking 9 images that would be eye catching enough to stand out and yet still hint to a level of substance I hope is apparent in my work.
Maybe I should just start my own competition?
- Weegee is back where he belongs: in New York City. Following an excursion to the West Coast he returns with two simultaneous exhibitions, “Weegee: Murder is My Business” at the International Center of Photography and “Weegee: Naked City” at Steven Kasher Gallery. With nigh-scholarly knowledge of the after-hours city no normal person saw, the artist loved the dark, depraved, and shameful corners of life most. The tabloid photographer was a self-publishing and self-made one-man-media-show. He reigned supreme as the go-to guy for capturing your murder in just the right light — Weegee made the living look good, but he made the bad, ugly, and dead look better. He framed the grotesque deaths of small-time crooks and infamous mob-bosses with the same care Avedon later captured the curves of fashion models.
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The tenth anniversary approaches, how does this image read now?
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Processing my pictures from the New York part of our trip. Getting ready to upload them to flickr, over the coming days.
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