Digital BW, The Print

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nij [mailto:nigel@...]
> Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 9:33 PM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Re: 13x19 print exchange NEW EXCHANGE
>
> ...
>
> Anyway, in the Files seciton of this group is an email recommendation from
> Jason DeFontes who coordinated three parallel exchanges and lived to tell
> the tale... just. Frankly, he must have had a nightmare. Please hunt down
> that file and read-up. It will make the participant's and
> coordinator's life
> A LOT easier.

You're right about that. I'm alive and well, but I haven't had the energy
for another exchange since that experience.

> I would suggest that the next exchange takes a very specific form - you
> could be extremely arbitrary if you wanted and say 'cool tone MIS
> VM prints
> only on 13*19' for example. I only say this because I think it is nice to
> encourage either extreme expertise (i.e. people who do that sort of thing
> already participate) and 'learning' (get people to try something
> they do NOT
> normally do) to come together.

I think this is an idea whose time has come. One of the cool things about
the exchanges has been the variety of the participants' work, but I think it
would be really nice to see an exchange that was more focused. I think a
self-portrait exchange would be REALLY interesting for example. And, of
course, I'd like to see an exchange for people who are using quads, etc. for
non-photographic work. But I think any kind of theme or genre that the
organizer wanted to do would be an interesting new twist. I think, like you
said, it might help to bring out some people who haven't participated yet.
And I'm sure that we'd all be surprised by the variety even within such a
limited exchange.

Best of luck to anyone who decides to organizer another one. I may even have
recovered enough to particpate again (although it will be a while before I
volunteer to organize one ;-).

-Jason