Proper honoured to be here – esp on same stage as Biennial – did the Innovasion game a few weeks ago– not bothered about being called small
Sony DSC – T1
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S Africa
S Africa – but sharing – no-one seeing this stuff
Lordi – 2007 Eurovision winners
So, armed with DSLR off to Tanzania
Still one of my fave shots
flickr
Flickr start
My flickr page
Jaguars
Greyhounds
Greggs
Greggs products
Camera specific
Lens specific
Liverpool – where Fab was born
A few more flickr tricks - Exif
See where on a map
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Talk photography
Here is where it all changed for me – photographing La Machine – realised there was good stuff going on worth documenting – Capital of Culture as a turning point – Liverpool group on Flickr – thought about an exhibition – meetings – Ship & Mitre
Discussion – something that we could never do online – here is where social media has its benefits and drawbacks – decided that we more than just an exhibition – but we had more to offer.
Fab was born – we built a brand – and teased it out to start with – the 2 nd Fab tweet (1 st one just said hello)
So, we built a website - Fab website – Wordpress blog – open source – uses a modified open source theme called Unstandard – Can see some of the projects we’ve done. 2 exhibitions in St Luke’s
Very proud of the HH project – working with the homeless community on a photography and music based project – built self confidence and let loose some real creativity – some of them even uploaded to flickr
Just one of the shots – it was a thoroughly great project – it puts right where we want to be as part of the community – both artistic and social
So, we set up a forum – be careful out there – people have died in here – there has been war
Seriously – it needs to be considered. There may or may not be a swear filter at work there.
We’ve had great exhibitions in St Luke’s
Fab Faces – getting out and having fun
The website has a gallery system so that people can see what we’ve been doing.
In action – sucks shots directly from flickr – so always up to date with zero maintenance – same for the Lifestream page
Where social media is going – many websites and apps make sharing easier - Tumblr
Blipfoto – 1 shot a day – sort of like a journal – uploading images from phone or pc – all dead easy
Tumblr – cool for collaborating – just needs an email address to post – Evoked potential
Instagram – popular atm – another way of sharing photos
Ultimately – its about having a conversation – getting people to engage with us. As photographers, the sharing part is important from a development POV – as creatives we simply want people to see what we do.