Its unlikely you will have heard of Monomonday, a
photographic challenge.
Unless of course you are a member of the Edinburgh based photo
sharing social media site Blipfoto.com
Well today I took part in their monomonday portrait
challenge. Nothing unusual in that you
may say except its global, collaborative, sharing, and operates informally. Its
not part of some highly complex curated photographic venture in the meat world
which costs a small fortune to organise and years to implement, but rather a
grassroots photographic venture started by Australian photographer
It’s free to all provided you are registered on Blipfoto.com
– and that’s free too.
I mention it because I suspect this is something we are
going to see a lot more of in the future as traditional methods of artists
sharing and publishing their work through galleries change as more move into the
digital zone.
The traditional gatekeepers, are being replaced by a
different kind of gatekeeper- your peers assess your work. It goes out into the
world unedited and you know within seconds of hitting the send button whether
that image is good or not. The community not curators judge.
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