Ivan Makarov Blog

A bit of a background. Few years ago like most of you I was very active on Flickr. The community was great there and we got together several times and published our own magazine, and a few books focused on photography. Below is a sample of that effort. I had my photos in there, so did+Thomas Hawk , +Ingo Meckmann , +Jerry Lorengo , +Jeremy Brooks and many others. We also wrote articles, interviews, shared photo essays and so forth.

We never did it for profit. The main goal was to see each other’s work in print, which is a whole different experience than seeing it on a monitor. As a result, I still have those books and memories. Loved the result of those efforts.

Last week we decided to do this again. The majority of photography community seemed to moved to Google+. It’s hard to name an active photographer today who doesn’t have a presence there.

Except this time, we decided to do this for charity and give back. We’ll publish two versions of the book – a hard copy version through Blurb, and an electronic ebook for those who don’t feel they need a hard copy. All proceeds from the sales will be donated to charity.

The process of putting the book together is well under way, and we have 217 photographers who signed up for the project, some are very well known today, such as Lotus Caroll, Thomas Hawk, Joel Tjintjelaar, Jim Patterson, Patrick Smith, Brian Day and others who are less known. We hope the project will be completed by the end of January.

If you want to join in, it’s not too late. Leave a comment on the post here, as participation is open to photographers of all levels. We also set up Google+ page to help you follow the progress and participate if you have the time.