Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Alistair, a five-year project in a short-term age? It's a long time. Here is a modest suggestion: use the website to post Lugger's photographs, which could be submitted for comment and thoughtful criticism. Each photographer could explain what he was trying to do and how he did it, what he sees in the photos, and then receive back comments, which hopefully would be constructive and go beyond one-liners. The subject is basically humanity. You could call the project Humanity or Family, but leave out MoMA. The comparison is for me, at least, very uncomfortable, as such a competitive name as FOM 2 leaves me embarrassed rather than invigorated. Interest Leica in sponsoring this in some form (they _do_ have some products in which we are interested) and open the effort to the entire Leica community, a la their own competitions. Collect the photographs over two years at most. Unbiased and respected judges could be found to make a final selection. Perhaps Leica would publish a book if the results warranted it. Jesse