Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/10/13

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Subject: [Leica] Semetko Kickstarter campaign
From: csemetko at gmail.com (Craig Semetko)
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 06:44:18 -0500
References: <mailman.1554.1350127036.1186.lug@leica-users.org>

Thank you Richard! Hope to meet you next fall at the NYC show;)

Best,

Craig

www.semetko.com


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On Oct 13, 2012, at 6:17 AM, lug-request at leica-users.org wrote:

> Message: 24
> Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 19:10:44 -0700
> From: Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Semetko Kickstarter Campaign
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
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> 
> I have seen a few of Craig's prints in a NYC Gallery, they are really
> superb.
> 
> Best of luck!
> 
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Craig Semetko <csemetko at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
>> Dear Friends,
>> 
>> I wanted to let you  know I've launched a kickstarter campaign today to
>> finish my America project. There are some interesting rewards--the prints
>> are offered at roughly a third of what they sell for in galleries.
>> 
>> 
>> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1504580642/america-e-pluribus-unum-out-of-many-one?ref=email
>> 
>> I now know what Johnny Cash meant when he sang, "I've been everywhere,
>> man, I've been everywhere."
>> 
>> While I continue to travel the country shooting this project right up
>> until Inauguration Day, I am also starting to show the work.
>> 
>> 1) There will be an exhibition of work from UNPOSED and the E Pluribus
>> Unum project beginning November 9th at the Leica Store, Washington DC. It
>> coincides with FotoweekDC and will hang into the new year. I will also be
>> giving a presentation of work from both projects at the store November 
>> 15th
>> and 16th as one of their FotoDC events.
>> 
>> 2) I'll also be speaking November 18th at the New Jersey Photo Expo for
>> Bergen County Camera. Prints from UNPOSED will be exhibited at their
>> Westwood NJ store.
>> 
>> 3) And the work from America: E Pluribus Unum will be the subject of a
>> solo exhibition at the Leica Gallery New York City in the fall of 2013.
>> 
>> I'm very excited about the work I'm producing for this project and the
>> recognition it's starting to get. I hope you'll become a part of it 
>> through
>> the kickstarter campaign at whatever level is comfortable. If you can't, 
>> no
>> sweat, but please pass it on to your friends who might be interested.
>> 
>> Thanks for your time and have a great weekend!
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Craig
>> 
>>