driving….

Mike waiting for me to finish this post..the boy wants to hit the road!!!!!!

i must check out of my Iowa motel right now….heading for Chicago or somewhere near Chicago…i was reading comments, looking at links and made the comment below….i decided this might make a good post , so here it is:

HELLO ALL….VERY IMPORTANT!!!

do any of you ever go look at the links posted by forum readers under "student work/workshops"??? 

there are a lot of photographers here who never write, but who do
have some very interesting work…right now there are about 175
links…please check them out…

for those of you who have posted links, please be assured that I DO
LOOK….it is from this "pool" of work, as well as photographers on
assignment here, that i am looking for photographers to fund with the
Emerging Photographer Fund this fall….

my only problem with some of your links posted is that there is no
contact information for some of you…i cannot review the work of all
of you, but when i see someone with very interesting work, i would like
to make contact…

maybe what i should do is look at all links and then post the names
of photographers with whom i would either like to see more or make
contact…make sense??? just as an example, i randomly clicked on the
link of Sofia Quintas and saw some Polaroids of hers that were very
very interesting and nothing like the work she had submitted for the
EPF last fall..but, i have no way to contact her…

yes, yes, i am very busy shooting…and i hope all of you are as
well..but, i do pay attention to what is happening here … because i
am doing my own work it does mean there are "lapses" in my posting
here, but this forum has taken on a life of its own, and i do not
intend to let it slide away…..

only a very small percentage of what is going on in my head ends up
in print on this forum, but do not for a nanosecond think that i am not
aware of your work…

I KNOW WHO IS DOING WHAT…but, if you think i have missed something of yours , please tell me so….

i cannot review every link nor edit all of you…but, i will see
your work and remember your work and "bookmark" your work.. i want to
make sure that all of the best will have a very fair and equal chance
at being considered for my jury this fall…

in the next month or so i want to have a very clear head about all
of the amazing work that is being produced by readers of this
forum…there is a lot going on and it is sometimes difficult for all
of us to keep up..but, i intend to keep up….and i will…

right now, i am waiting for assignments to be finished from
Bob,Cristina, Marcin, Erica, Jonathan, Kyunghee Lee, Audrey,Panos,
Sébastian, Eric, David M, and Patricia… as far as i know, i think
only James is finished…this is right off the top of my head, so
please correct me if i am wrong or have missed someone who is shooting
right now on assignment…

i will clear a space under Emerging Photographers on this site to
publish your essays when they are complete…and , of course, i am
ready to make new assignments when appropriate…

it is basically from these assignments that the EPF jury will choose
photographers for funding this fall….a photographer who posts a link
under "student work/workshops" will also be totally eligible, but
naturally photographers who are developing here before my "eyes" are
just going to have a better chance i think…

please do not think of this EPF as a contest….a contest is a one time award for a good picture or essay..goodbye…

do you not think i am still tracking very carefully the China essay of Sean Gallagher, last year’s recipient of the EPF???

our forum and EPF is about LONG TERM development and
RELATIONSHIP…think of this more like a relationship with a
traditional print magazine where photographers present their work and
editors decide "who will do what" based on the work and the editor’s
judgment on who is capable of completing any particular
essay…subjective yes, but it will all happen right in front of you as
it has in the past..

yes, we are traveling together into totally new territory…the "old
territories" are either gone or going away….fast…so, what have we
got to lose??? nothing that i can see…

your ideas, thoughts and most importantly YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS have a
place right here…A HOME….there are no "bosses"…this is just me
driving down the highway, taking my own pictures , looking at yours,
and having a jolly good time doing both….

peace, david

p.s. i am still reading and responding to  comments under the previous post "how the west was won"