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Update #5: Quick Update --Getting Ready to Launch
Dear Backers,
We're excited to share that we're currently creating the texting/ mapping platform and designing the banners for our first five installations, which will go up in June. The second (and larger) wave of See Potential is scheduled for late August/ early September.
Rewards will arrive by mid summer/ early fall, depending on what is required for your reward to be created (e.g. the mint for mint tea needs to grow and dry, and installations must be complete before we can photograph them for posters, hand made books, etc).
Thank you again for transforming our potential into reality!
All the best,
Emily and Orrin
Update #4: We did it!
Dear supporters,
We are overwhelmed by the power of people coming together to support what they believe in. This campaign is truly grass roots at its best. Thank you for believing in See Potential, for making it happen, and for knowing that your pledge could and would make an impact—you all matter!
On January 5th, we reached our initial $10,000 goal, and have since surpassed it! The additional funding will be used to create more installation sites. We are incredibly excited to get started! Please continue to spread the word about SEE POTENTIAL to your networks.
If you’re in New York: please join us at The Half King at 7:30 on Tuesday January 17th for a celebration of See Potential’s success, and a public conversation between Emily Schiffer and Whitney Johnson, Director of Photography at the New Yorker Magazine. (Click here for more details about the event and to view the invitation).
Sincerely,
Emily and Orrin
Update #3: See Potential in the Huffington Post, Chicago Tribune Redeye and others
Dear friends,
Thank you to everyone for supporting See Potential, and thank you to those who have recently increased your pledges! We really appreciate your support and are happy to announce that we're now 35% funded!
See Potential has been featured several times in the media, please have a look:
The Huffington Post (front page of the Chicago local section)
Being Where We Are Blog--The Revolutionary Side of Urban Agriculture
We've gotten an overwhelming amount of enthusiasm, often from people we don't even know! Thank you to everyone who has reached out to us wanting to get involved, we need you!
Please help us continue to spread the word and energize supporters.
Happy Holidays and all the best,
Emily and Orrin
Update #2: Re: Time Magazine Online
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Update #1: Time Magazine Online
Dear Friends,
We thought you'd like to know that Emily's images from this project were featured in Time Magazine Online yesterday. Have a look: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/12/12/securing-food-in-chicagoland/#1
Thanks for supporting our project and for continuing to spread the word to your family and friends. After only a few days, we're off to a great start! Every email, facebook post, and tweet makes our project more visible and will help us reach our goal, so please keep sharing.
Thanks and all the best!
-SEE POTENTIAL
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A 4 x 6” postcard featuring a completed SEE POTENTIAL installation site with a personal thank you from Orrin Williams and Emily Schiffer.
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Set of five 4 x 6” postcards featuring completed SEE POTENTIAL instillation sites, and a box of community garden-raised organic mint tea.
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An easy to follow and beautifully designed How to Guide to Aquaponics and window farms (indoor growing systems that raises vegetables and fish). And an 11x17” poster featuring a completed SEE POTENTIAL installation site.
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An 8x8” print on archival matte paper by Emily Schiffer (your choice from the three images featured below) with a note by Orrin Williams handwritten below the image.
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Three 14x14” photographs by Emily Schiffer with a note by Orrin Williams handwritten below the image.
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"Regardless of the subject matter, I'm interested in depicting obvious and essential details of life that are often overshadowed by larger, more newthworthy circumstances."
B. 1980. In 2003 Emily Schiffer received her BA in Fine Art and African American Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. In 2005, she founded the My Viewpoint Youth Photography Initiative on the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota, where she continues to teach and shoot. Awards include: a 2011 Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund Grant, the 2010 Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Portraiture, the 2010 winner of the PDN Photo Annual Personal Project Category, the 2009 Inge Morath Award, presented by Magnum Photos and the Inge Morath Foundation, and a 2006-2007 Fulbright Fellowship in Photography. Emily has exhibited and published her photographs internationally.
Emily and Orrin. This is such a wonderful project. So glad it was funded. Look forward to seeing some of the response to it all. And photos of the posters in place.
Sheila
Who's developing the text/map platform? Is there anything else like it, something that inspired? This is the piece I'm most interested in. Are the banners installations part of it (provide info or such)?
Really brilliant idea.