PICTURAPixel, a new e-photo magazine on the block

Thank you for the plug Anderson. We hope everybody here enjoys it. Comments, feedback and suggestions are welcomed. Thanks!

Best,

Gilberto Tadday.

Just added to favorites. Thanks. Good luck to your friends. It’s looking good.

No free beers…:-(...how about a diet pepsi?

presumably they pay fantastic,otherwise they would have been villified beyond belief,or do the rules change here,depending on the cycles of the moon,whats on the t.v. that day,or some other precise,ethical set of rules?

interesting logic there michal.does that mean if they lose money you would pay to contribute?

how do they hand out money if they dont make any?i assume you are not talking about governmental organisations that just dump it onto the collossal and ever growing national debt?

nice.

Dear Friends,

Thank you for your interest on PicturaPixel. I am one of the magazine creators and publishers, along with photographer Claudio Versiani.
We would like to thank specially Michal Daniel who understood the magazine concept and our intentions for the kind words.

When we decided to create this online magazine, our first goal was to share the overdose of photographic information we are exposed to on a daily basis here in New York. We wanted to share with other fellow photographers great portfolios. We do that because of our passion for photography and because we like do it. And as everyone knows, whenever you do something just because you love it, money is not your priority. We are online since May of 2006. We do invest a lot of time and effort doing it and so far we manage to showcase 20 different photographers. We do not rely on this project to pay our bills. We are photographers and we make a living shooting editorial work the same way most of you do. We respect the photographers we work with the same way we would like to be respected and we publish our work. Michal Daniel is right. If you pay attention, we do not have any sponsors, ads, banners or windows poping on your screen.

Someday we may end up making some money with this project. If it happens, it will be great, because we will be able to pay our web designer, our friends who help us with the voice over and the translations and everybody else contributing to the project. But as I said before, this is not our main concern and goal. It it was, we would have stopped doing it a long while ago. And apparently, it seems not to be the main concern of the photographers we have been working with. We have already done 20 portfolios and we are currently working on another four new ones that will be online soon. During this entire period, we only had one photographer who did not want to participate without being paid. It is OK, we understand and respect that.

We are promoting great photography and great photographers. We are not using the images to illustrate a story, to sell something or to our own advantage. Do you charge to show your images on a galley or when you give a magazine an interview about your body of work? We also try showcase new and emerging photographers ( not only the established and famous ones ) who might have a hard time finding a traditional magazine or newspaper willing to publish his/her personal essays.

We never intended to brake any rules or code of ethics on this forum. The Lightstalkers manifesto says:
“We have no membership requirements, only a code of sharing and cooperation.
Lightstalkers was created to help its members to help each other. It was designed to serve as a hook-up center for a mobile, global crew of of explorers and operators. Using the site as a virtual base camp, we track each others movements and projects, exchange unique, real-time information, and assist each other with advice and feedback. Lightstalkers is a directory, a database, and a resource center.”

That is our idea. Share. We wanted to share with all of you the great work of the photographers we are featuring. We are not asking you to work for free or to participate if do not want. We just wanted to let you know that these essays are available to you for free and you might enjoy it. Specially the photographers who are not in NYC and do not have a chance to talk to great photographer and hear their stories, like Lori Grinker, Stephen Ferry, Stephen Mallon, Abelardo Morell, Peter Lucas, among others. (they also understood our concept and goals and agreed to participate without charging a penny).

If any of you went to the Photoshelter Town Hall meeting a few weeks ago, you may have heard Chase Jarvis saying: “raising the tide lifts all boats”. We believe that. We should share and help each other. That is our main goal.

Thank you all. I hope you enjoy the magazine. If you do not want us to keep informing you whenever we publish a new portfolio, we understand and will gladly comply with the majority’s decision.

Best,

Gilberto Tadday & Claudio Versiani

Thank you for share this, nice to see different works and styles. For someone reason i can´t view the past numbers of the ezine. When I click the thumbnail nothing happens or only i can read the title of the picture. Anyway, thanks and good luck

Great wesite, interesting article on the found photography. Some of the narratives do not seem to play right through not to take anything away from it. But a great idea and will certainly carry on looking at the new stories.

gilberto,thank you for taking the time to post your thoughts.please dont think i was having a go at you,i was not.it’s just that their are a few magazines that operate as you do.some of them get supported,and some of them get absolutely slated,and i was trying to establish the reasons for this.good luck with the project,it looks good,and we certainly need more quality outlets for our work.

Thank you all for the comments and support.
Michal Daniel: thanks for the submission. I got your email and just sent you a reply.
Hernan: which browser are you using? I just checked on Safari and it is working. Click on ‘archives’, ’#1’ or ’#2’ and you will enter one of the first two issues. Select english as the language you should be able access the older portfolios. however, flash is necessary to view the slideshows from # 2 and the ones after that. Anyone else having any trouble?
Mike: the slideshows do not play all the way to the end? Is that what you meant? Please let me know the ones with this problems so I can check it. Thanks.
Michael B.: no hurt feelings. I hope you enjoy the magazine and the great images we have there. Keep in touch.

Thanks again.

Best!

Hi Gilberto. I use firefox with pc and mac. It happens with some pictures, por example with the #1 issue in the Abelardo Morell porfolio i can view the first 5 or 6 pictures and not the following. Hope that help.

Hi Hernan. Now I see what you are saying. For some reason, the links are broken. Thanks for pointing me to that problem. I will inform our web master and ask her to correct. I will let you know when it’s fixed. Morell’s images cannot be missed! They are extraordinary. Thanks again and keep in touch. It is always good to hear from South America. I was born in Porto Alegre, southern Brazil.

Slightly odd, but it seems all are working apart from the Stephan Ferry story. You only get the first few lines. Hope this helps.