Andrew Long (along), Editor and Writer
I’ve been a Fotologger since March 2003. Not a total pioneer, like some people we know, but I think there were still only a couple thousand members at that time. Together with a bunch of other great Fotologgers (Johanna chief among them), I co-edited Fotolog.book: A Global Snapshot for the Digital Age, which was published in April 2006. It’s still very available!
I’m a writer and editor living in Brooklyn who, before I found out about Fotolog, worked at The New Yorker for more than a decade. Yikes.
Before that, I went to college.
Before that, I grew up, pretty darn happy, in this tiny town. Yeah, kinda sickening. The whole time I was waiting for this to happen. It did. I got happier.
Pamela Bannos (palmea), Contributor
Pamela discovered Fotolog in May 2003 and lurked for a full year while she prepared a talk for Northwestern University’s American Urban Photography Symposium in May 2004. Her talk, Satellites, Cameraphones, and Some Other Ways the Internet is Redefining Urban Photography, featured Fotolog and the work of Mashuga and Lauratitian’s subway photographs. She joined the Fotolog community immediately after the symposium and has enjoyed sharing the daily photographs she takes that have finally found their perfect forum. You can see her other photographic works here.
(photo by dubmill)
Robin Dennis (ribena), Contributor
Twelve hours before a week-long trip to Maui for a wedding, Robin bought her first digital camera, and shortly thereafter she posted her first nature shot to Fotolog. Her father’s hand-me-down Minolta-Leica has (sadly) been gathering dust ever since. When she’s not peeking at photos online or hanging out with David, aka dubmill, she is editing current affairs, social commentary, and science books. (Occasionally, she does all three at once.)
Jenni Holder (jkh_22), Contributor
Jenni, the daughter of two artists, spent much of her childhood in studios, galleries, museums, and art fairs. After earning a BS in Marketing, and a year as an advertising executive in Chicago, she eventually altered her career path to indulge her early love for art. In 1990, she accepted a position at the Edwynn Houk Gallery in Chicago, which, in 1993, took her to New York City. For the next 11 years she helped create and support markets for vintage twentieth-century photography, and oversaw the careers of various contemporary artists—most notably Sally Mann. Jenni was the Director of the gallery from 1998 through 2003, when she left New York to raise her newborn daughter, Tallulah, in France. Since then, she has worked freelance for Galerie Karsten Greve (Paris), as a consultant to private collectors, and as a contributing editor to Fotolog.book. Jenni and her boyfriend, Sebastien, welcomed their second child last February (Jasper!). But thanks to Fotolog and the internet in general, she continues to keep one eye on photography.
(photo by pro_keds)
Heather Maxwell-Hall (beebs), Contributor
Heather is a Vancouver-based writer who started on Fotolog in April 2003 with no concept of how her life would change as a result. She’s found work and met a host of amazing people via the Fotolog community, chief among them her future husband. After a year of long distance romance between Vancouver and New York, Chris immigrated to Canada and the pair were married in May 2006. [Ed. note: this truly could have been the first Fotolog marriage ever. We’re looking into it.] Heather is a member of Young Photographers United, a non-profit organization that supports young artists as they start out in the world of professional photography. As a member of YPU, her work is featured in international projects, publications, and exhibitions.
(Photo by deathdog)
Annie Sollinger (dangerpaws), Contributor
Annie grew up on a farm in Vermont but now she’s a student at New York University. She’s been on Fotolog almost as long as she’s been there. While she studies art history, she likes to make her own pictures, collages, and paintings. (She also secretly blogs.) Though she started her Fotolog so mom and dad (who paints) could see her pictures in New York, she ended up meeting the man of her dreams (deathdog), as well as a bunch of other wonderful people. She loves Los Angeles too.
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