Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/09/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Sep 8, 2014, at 8:37 AM, Larry Zeitlin via LUG wrote: > No money for your photography project? Don't despair. On today's Internet > news: > > > For photographers who seek dollars but don?t want to get lost in the vast > sea of Kickstarter projects, there is Fotofund, a new crowdfunding > platform exclusively for photo-based works. The site is the latest > initiative of the non-profit Lucie Foundation, which is dedicated to > supporting, honoring, and cultivating photographic talent. > Fotofund was created ?to provide financial backing to photographic > projects through online contributions and to support photography worldwide > by bringing photographers? visions to life.? Distinct from other > crowdfunding sites, the platform offers two models: a flexible funding > model in which the project creator receives all donations whether or not > their full funding goals are met or alternatively, they can select to only > receive funding if the full amount of their goal is reached. Among the > first campaigns to hit Fotofund are those aiming to create an official > archive of the late Jerry Stoll?s photography from the California jazz > era, a documentary project showcasing men and women who live off the grid > throughout Europe, and a personal interpretation of the music and lyrics > of Tom Waits?we suspect ?Picture in a Frame? will figure prominently. > Larry Z Except it was set to launch August 11th and has yet to materialize as working web site <http://www.fotofund.org/> <http://www.fotofund.org/friends.html> Regards, George Lottermoser http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist