Reaching Out

Reaching Out Posted by rotem 21/12/10

100 Portraits — 100 Photographers: Selections from the FlakPhoto.com Archive

For the past four years I’ve been publishing FlakPhoto.com, a website that features contemporary photography from an international community of artists. This fall, I teamed up with curator and Indie Photobook Library creator Larissa Leclair to produce a photo projection for FotoWeek DC, which showed at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, November 6-13, 2010.

In the spirit of the public art projection in Washington D.C., I developed this digital exhibition so we can share the work of these artists with an international online audience, wherever they are in the world. Since launching in early November 100 Portraits has been viewed by more than 30,000 visitors from 24 countries and the project has been featured in Wired Magazine, The New Yorker, National Public Radio, aCurator.com and The Washington Post.

Untitled Portrait, 2006

Courtesy of Wang Yifei

Online publishing and community collaboration are inspiring forces in my photo work and this project is another part of my mission to promote significant artists to a global audience of people who are passionate about photography. The online community has been amazingly supportive — thanks to everyone who helped us spread the word! If you like these photographs, feel free to mention the project in your blog or share it with colleagues and students who would enjoy it.