The project will enable me to edit then scan the thousands of archived images I made during my 10 years in London that started in 1980.
In 1980, the same year I started making photographs, I travelled for the first time to London for a college Mass Media Seminar. That started a ten-year period of living there, during which time I began my career working in the media industry in Europe.
But I never stopped making images.
During the 1980s I had a darkroom in my first apartment in London. I had an enlarger and struck up a friendship with Gene Nocon, the master photographic printer. We are still in touch today. Luckily I have had a chance to hand print some of the B&W images, so that you can see a few of them here.
I have been lugging around my archive of mostly 35mm film negatives all my life. Until recently I was also lugging the darkroom equipment around as well, until finally a few years ago I donated all the gear to my local town hall where at least now I am able to use the darkroom.
The archive I have is fairly organised, by year. It consists of a mixture of black and white and color 35 mm negatives. I want to go deeper into this archive, pull out the best images, and make a project that will effectively document the era. I intend to prepare these images for publication, exhibition, book and/or a multimedia production.
With the connections I have in the media industry and also with other artists groups in Europe and in the US, I believe I can bring the project to a wider audience. That is what I need your support for.
I need to go through all the boxes. Then sort and digitise all the best ones, or at least, the ones I think that have the best potential for telling the story of that era. I need a negative scanner, and sufficient hard disk space, and a much bigger monitor and a better software set-up for editing. I need a real light table too!
There will also, of course, be the print preparation costs, for approximately 20 final physical images. When I did the calculation, I realised it costs quite a lot, as well as realizing the costs of your rewards! I estimate the project to require around $18000 worth of support to realize, and I will fund anything needed over and above that amount.
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Funding Unsuccessful This project reached the deadline without achieving its funding goal on September 15, 2011.
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Thank you! Your reward will be a personal thank you message by email from project supervisor, Elly May, from her website at www.squeakycarrot.com
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Thank you! Your reward will be ONE signed and numbered limited edition print of your choice, commercially printed, size 8x10in, from the set of final images, to be mailed by 30 April 2012. The Limited Edition for this size will be made up of 120 images in total. Your reward will also include a personal thank you message from project supervisor, Elly May.
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Thank you! Your reward will be ONE signed and numbered limited edition print of your choice, commercially printed, size 11x14in, from the set of final images, to be mailed by 30 April 2012. The Limited Edition for this size will be made up of 120 images in total.Your reward will also include a personal thank you message from project supervisor, Elly May.
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Thank you! Your reward will be ONE signed and numbered limited edition print of your choice, commercially printed, size 16x20in, from the set of final images, to be mailed by 30 April 2012. The Limited Edition for this size and type of print will be made up of 170 images in total.Your reward will also include a personal thank you message from project supervisor, Elly May.
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Thank you! Your reward will be TWO signed and numbered limited edition prints of your choice, commercially printed, size 16X20in, from the set of final images, to be mailed by 30 April 2012. The Limited Edition for this size and type of print will be made up of 170 images in total. Your reward will also include a personal thank you message from project supervisor, Elly May.
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A HUGE THANK YOU! Your reward is a set of 10 IMAGES of your choice, commercially printed, signed and numbered, size 16x20in, from the set of final images, to be mailed by 30 April 2012 The Limited Edition for this size and type of print will be made up of 170 images in total. Plus your name or company will be listed as a sponsor on the eventual website, as well as on any book or exhibition. Your reward will also include a personal thank you message from project supervisor, Elly May, plus you will also get a personal thank you from the photographer, Janet Greco.
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A HUGE THANK YOU! Your big REWARD will be a set of 10 IMAGES of your choice, signed and numbered, size 16x20in, printed personally by the photographer, on museum quality paper, digitally printed with archival inks, to be mailed by 30 April 2012. The Limited Edition for each archival print in this size will be 30 images in total. Plus your name or company will be listed as a sponsor on the eventual website, as well as on any book or exhibition. As an ADDED BONUS you will also receive a special message directed specifically to you, our fabulous sponsor, via Elly May's personal website blog "Paws for Thought' at www.squeakycarrot.com. Of course you will also get a personal thank you from the photographer, Janet Greco.
