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January 10, 2009
A new Flickr group ---altfotonet.org has been created by S2art and myself. The blurb says:
This is a group, whose aim is to seed images for an an online publication called altfotonet.org.We are currently seeking submissions from creatives/artists/idealouges/ratbags/visonaries, who use lenses and light sensitive materials to make statements, create ideas or explore the notion of 'photography' and what it, 'photography', means in the 21st century.
The Flickr stream, and the concrete canvas stream, provide the flow of images that forms the basis for submissions to an online gallery exhibition.
Why so? What is the rationale? Why the DIY ethos?
In the altfotonet.org blog s2art states:
My interests in photography, are varied, and after several years of hanging around on flickr I realised that the establishment either wasn't taking the idea of online art seriously, or just had no idea what was going on.Meanwhile flickr had long reached critical mass and the gems were getting harder and harder to find amongst the sunsets, babies, kittens and flowers. I wanted to share and get involved in photography and photographers who were interested in more than some preconceived notion of what constituted a good photograph.
The art insttution is not that interested in online art photography. So how do art photographers step beyond their Flickr stream? An online gallery with regular images seems to be the obvious next step. Hence altfotonet.org.
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interesting idea. Why isn't this standard practice? After all there are lots of artist run galleries. Going online makes it even economically feasible.