Thursday night, I teamed up with some photog pals to do a quasi-impromptu photo review down at Imbibe. Result: success. I’ve wanted to get some critical feedback on my work for a few years and meeting up with the Foto:RE peeps a couple weeks ago, I suggested a regular meet-up. Suggesting is the better part of volunteering, so I said I would kick off the first meet-up. And pretty much any event is best initiated at a bar, because worst-case-scenario: you’re drinking a beer alone at a bar with all your gear in tow. Not so bad.
Here, (L-R) Joe Martz, Karl Griffiths-Fulton, Mark Walton, and I are reviewing Karl’s print. Karl said when he returns home from photographing in a war zone, he needs to decompress and not photograph any people for a while. This print was made during one of those periods and was inspired by a war poem, that Karl also brought along.
The intent with this social experiment is to do these meet-ups on a regular cadence and improve, so we picked third Thursday of the month. As I learned from the kwartzlab experience, any day you pick will be bad for somebody, so you just pick a day and roll with it. The ever-awesome Jen C. King is setting up the meet for April: location TBD. These type of meet-ups are the heartbeat of an organization and really facilitate the community building that makes all good things possible.
