100eyes/MardiGras360/The Human Condition Websites are Live

Great stuff.

Hat’s off to all involved.

Thank you Andrew, I am proud of the outcome. I think the kids did a great job on the Mardi Gras series, but there are some terrific images from unexpected places….

Andy, thanks so much for posting this – ‘The Human Condition’ show provided the most inspiration I’ve felt in a long time.. so so much wonderful and meaningful work and much of it unpublished (at least to my knowledge).. this slideshow I think really captures the spirit that I (want to) relate to Lightstalkers.. I’d love to have a book of this collection to hold. Cheers, Lance

Lance thats an interesting comment. My first reaction when I started to research these pictures in 2003 was that I was seeing all of this great work, why wasn’t it being published, and who were these people that were making such interesting work? I still would like to get some of those questions answered…..

Thank you so much, Andy…

I would have tons of paragraphs for your question but I think it is redundant to write.. I love the work you put together, thanks for your time and effort…I will be first one to buy if there is a book…

cheers, A

Andy, I feel the commitment of everyone who shot the Mardi Gras work that came to be the slideshow on 100 eyes. Just some very powerful work. Thanks for posting.

Thanks Andy, great stoooooofff, worked fine for me

Thank you so much, Andy! The Human Condition slideshow is very powerful and moving! And it gave me a lot of inspiration from my fellow Lightstalkers! Thanx to everybody involved in making this website and slideshow possible…

cheers,

Rosa

Great website Andy and congratulations! Love both projects very much and your tireless effort has really broadened the community and the opportunities for others as well. I loved the MardiGras slideshow and hats off to you amigo…

just remarkable…

cheers
bob

ps. for some weird reason I had a dream about Lance and Kelly last night (truth)...anyway….

I set up a “guestbook” for the Mardi Gras 360 slideshow, its a page on the blog but its accessible right from the screen….if anyone has a word of encouragement or suggestions for me or any of the photographers it would be much appreciated.

I wanted to pick up on the idea raised by Lance. Publishing a book is one thing, and if you are an old fart like me you probably prefer the format. But I really think that one of the innovative aspects of all this work that Andy is doing (and let us remember to thank him for his Herculean efforts) is that it is being published in a new medium and by this means we photographers can stake a claim there and find ways to make it our own. There are several advantages to working this way: first off, we can play with the narrative and formal possibilities and create new types of presentations (and I am not just talking about the current craze for multimedia slideshows); we need to grasp the baton that Fred Ritchin and Gilles Peress would pass on to us (I am referring to their groundbreaking narrative work on Bosnia), we need to keep inventing and imagining new horizons. second, it gives us control over the means of distribution - as Andy points out there is sensational work to be seen on these sites, and much of it never got published in the mainstream, conventional venues - but that should not daunt us, when we have at hand the means to publish our work as we ourselves see fit. The big question, of course, is how to get paid for it, how to make a living somehow. But I for one am intrigued and heartened by the possibilities offered by the net, and I am presently working feverishly on a website of my own that will collate all the material I produced for the Alicia Patterson grant, in addition to a cornucopia of work by other people that is all related thematically. I am hoping that it will be one more step in the right direction. Those are just two points that come to mind, but there are many other advantages: unlike a newspaper or magazine, a website is perennial and can be perennially updated so there are no breaks in the narrative (whereas supplemental work published in periodicals is inevitably separated by gaps in time); websites are universal, to the extent that they can be downloaded by anyone anywhere, thus breaking down national borders and also potentially expanding readership beyond the circulation numbers normally enjoyed by printed media. I could go on, but you get the picture. So Kudos to Andy for following up on all this and creating these sites. It is a wise move.

You all cannot really understand how much work Andy put into these projects, last year (The Human Condition, BTW helped enormously by Bob Black at the end), but especially the Mardi Gras 360 Degrees oroject this year. As in all first efforts, it had a few hickups here and there, but they were surprising few. And we all could tell…by the end he was one tired puppy. I got a little insight into these in trying to help, so I can speak with some authority.

Thanks, no problem Neal, you are a trooper.

Andy , thankyou so much , these projects and the resulting websites are truly wonderful and awesome ( in the literal sense of the word ) ..
congratulations

Andy, truly an erculean work you managed! congratulations and thanks a lot: i feel very proud to be part of this Lightstalkers creation… i’m also interested to know more on the backstage of the editing of the thousands images you received… if you’d like :)))

Andy, thanks for putting up the human condition show. My family is stoked.

Great job Andy, looks fantastic, a really nice feather in the cap of Lightstalkers.

Really great and innovative work.

Very nice work from all. Thanks for the post, I was looking forward to seeing the outcome.

Hi, Andy,
Wonderful. Thank you for all your hard work. And for sharing it with the community. Congrats to everyone involved. W

Congratulations to all, and specially for Andy’s work!
I feel so lucky for being a piece of this project.

Many thanks!

WOW! Andy, great job you did! looks very good.

Gracias Andy ! . Thank you for your effort. The Human condition looks MASIVE and powerful.

Andy its a fabulous site and a monumental piece of work!

I hope that, as its extremely hardworking curator you reap the benefits of such dedication, I will send it off to all the pic eds I know!

Cheers!

Yes Neal I shouldn’t forget to credit Bob Black who did really come in at the end and help with the sequencing of the show…..thanks Bob, and of course your endless enthusiasm is contagious.

Looking at it in bits and pieces, as the pictures deserve some more time, some great stuff in there, thank you to all who have collaborated in one way or another… I’m still in favour of a book version ;)

BIG THANKS, Andy (and everyone else)! The slide shows are both wonderful and the Mardi Gras 360 project was a great experience for me. It opened new doors, I made some good new friends and met some fantastic people both in the project and outside of it. I hope to see you in April when I return to NOLA for the beginning of some ongoing projects there.

Hi Andy, thanks for all. If i can give you a hand i some way please tell me. Congratulations for the Mardi Grass show too, nice cover of this cultural event. Cheers

I have been busy on a project for French GEO but I wanted to bump this up, mostly because no one else has and its blatantly in my self interest of course….ha ha.