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Contact: Art Cole
Phone: 703 618-1155
E-mail: art@dynamicdigitalimages.net
LOCAL PHOTOGRAPHER DONATES PHOTOGRAPHS OF VIRGINIA TO HELP GENERATE FUNDS TO SUPPORT TSUNAMI RELIEF
WOODBRIDGE, VA (February 8, 2005) - Local photographer Art Cole (dynamicdigitalimages.net) has donated images he has taken in Virginia, USA to a photographic project designed to raise funds to help those devastated by the December 26, 2004 tsunami disaster. Lulu.com (Lulu.com), a print on demand publisher, and partner Color Centric Corporation teamed with Digital Photography Internationale (dpinternationale.com), a guild of online digital photographers from four countries, to create a 110 page full-color photographic publication called, Images to Brighten Our World. Proceeds from the sale of the book will go to help benefit tsunami relief charities.
"I am grateful for having the opportunity to share images of my community, to help those communities devastated by the tsunami disaster. I am also proud to be associated with Digital Photography Internationale, a wonderful group of caring and gifted photographers who donated their time and photographs to create this support effort." says Art.
Art is a life long resident of Northern Virginia, and has been a member of Digital Photography Internationale for three years. He and fellow Virginian Brian Zimmerman, were featured photographers in an August 2003 traveling D.P.I. Exhibit at the Northern Virginia Community College, Woodbridge Campus Gallery. Art is also a member of the Fairfax County Courier Photography Club. He has won awards for his photography both online and in local competitions, most recently at the Fairfax County Huntley Meadows Wetland Photo Competition in November, 2004.
DPI, together with Lulu.com collaborated on the project to help bring aid to the victims of the Tsunami. The collection of over 130 photographs by 13 artists is presented in an 8.5x11 format and will retail for $34.95. Twenty-five dollars of each sale will be given directly to these organizations: Sarvodaya in Sri Lanka, and the Humane Society International. The book is being marketed through Lulu.com, Amazon Marketplace, and can also be obtained through your local bookstore by providing them with the ISBN number (1-4116-2363-0).
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Digital Photographers from Four Countries Collaborate On Photo Book for Tsunami Charities
Digital Photography Internationale Partners with Lulu.com for Speedy Publishing Effort
RALEIGH, N.C. (February 7, 2005) -Thirteen photographers from across the world watched images of the Indian Ocean tsunami with the same paralyzed horror as did the rest of us. Photographers are usually the recorders of images, not subjects of their power. But when the photographers who make up Digital Photography Internationale (dpinternationale.com)-an online guild of digital photographers from the U.S., Germany, Australia, and Norway-saw photographs of the terrible devastation in South Asia asked the same question that people everywhere asked themselves: "What can I do to help?" Their answer: use Lulu (lulu.com) to publish Images to Brighten Our World, a 110-page full-color book of stunning images, with all proceeds benefiting tsunami-related charities.
Photographer James Geddes of Seattle, Washington (TakeYourBestShot.com), co-edited the compilation with fellow photographer Trine Sirnes of Norway (sirnesphotography.com). As an artist deeply touched by the recent tragedy, I was searching for a way to make a difference," explains Geddes, who founded the online photographers’ guild Digital Photography Internationale (DPI). "I wanted to do something more to help than just put links to tsunami relief agencies on my web site."
Geddes reached out to fellow digital photographers across the globe to donate their work for what would become, over the course of three weeks of online collaboration, Images to Brighten Our World, a full-color coffee table photography book available through the publish-on-demand technology of Lulu (lulu.com), a company founded by open source entrepreneur Bob Young.
Young took a special interest in the project. "It is the combination of instant communication and visual images our modern technology makes possible that has created bonds around the world," writes Young in an introduction to the book. "We do not need to know what he is saying when we see a picture of a father holding an injured child. In an instant-in a moment faster than the fastest speed reader, or more clearly than the most sympathetic radio voice - we understand this could have been us."
Although "Images to Brighten Our World" is manufactured using print on demand technology, Lulu and its partner, ColorCentric Corporation, have made it possible for $25 of the book’s $34.95 jacket price to go to three charities doing work in tsunami-affected countries: The Humane Society, and Sarvodaya in Sri Lanka. More information on the book is available at takeyourbestshot.com.
About DPI:Founded in 2001 to promote digital photography as an art medium, members include: James Geddes (Seattle, Washington), Laryl Hancock (Yuma, Arizona), Thomas Kirchen (Oregon), Guy Biechele (Athol, Massachusetts), Greg Anzalone (Buffalo, New York), Noel Carboni, (Florida), Art Cole (Virginia), Brian Zimmerman (Chester, Virginia), James Johnston (Ohio), Steve Vit (Melbourne, Australia), Ilona Wellmann (Gummersbach, Germany), Trine Sirnes (Fredrikstad, Norway), Mike Hollingshead (Blair, Nebraska).
About Lulu (lulu.com): Founded by Bob Young (co-founder and former chairman of Red Hat), Lulu provides independent publishers with free access to on-demand publishing tools for books, e-books, music, images and calendars. For more information, please contact pr@lulu.com.
About Colorcentric (colorcentriccorp.com): ColorCentric Corporation, a Xerox Premier Partner headquartered in Rochester, New York, combines decades of experience in printing with cutting-edge technology that is transforming the digital printing industry.
