Viewbook PhotoStory Call For Entries

We launched Viewbook PhotoStory 2009, an exciting new global photography contest. All documentary and conceptual photographers around the world are encouranged to submit photographic narratives in the form of self created online galleries, that are judged by the public and an international panel of industry professionals. The first prize winners receive international publications & lifelong subscriptions with a value exceeding $12.000).

The competition is all about the art of shooting a strong series, making a critical selection, determining the right order, writing a description and an appealing title. And most of all it’s about the impact that a photo story has on the audience. Viewbook PhotoStory is open for pro’s and emerging talents alike at no cost.

We encourage you to submit your work as soon as possible to get the most out of the public voting and get your photo story seen by as many people as possible. Submissions close at 1 October 2009. Check out the great prizes that we and our friends at GUP magazine, Blurb and Workbook have for grabs at www.viewbookphotostory.com

Four Brothers, Webapp Style

Designfeaster wrote a nice post about us:

"Viewbook allows people to easily create and share image galleries and portfolios. But the most important feature, to me, is that it’s a family labor of love. Four brothers—Rien, Alrik, Paul and Rudin Swagerman—engage many aspects of their product’s life: web development, marketing, interface and interactive design, business strategy. When I was in design school, I was encouraged by the belief that a first wave of work experience should be pursued with family members. And this remains good advice."

Check the full post here

Viewbook.com

Our online portfolio service that helps you present, deliver and promote your photographs with uncompromising flexibility and quality. Check it out at www.viewbook.com

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DUWO House of Music Kick-off

Last week we organized a kick-off evening for the DUWO House of Music project. Residents, relations and media were invited to enjoy our presentation and have a drink with us. A jazz quartet from the Royal Conservatoire moved us physically and emotionally. All together it was a great evening and I like to thank Pink from Morestage for the fantastic light and sound and Bob www.anderseten.com for the outstanding food, drinks, creative presentation and service. And Marleen http://www.koncon.com, thanks for organizing the jazz! More about the project www.duwo-houseofmusic.nl

Fame

In the last issue of Six surfing magazine a photo of me riding a nice Moroccan righthander
got published. Life wil never be the same;)

DUWO House of Music

Today we started communicating the plans of DUWO House of Music. An old brothel will turn into 43 apartments for international conservatoire students. We screwed a 5 by 4 metre large frame at the front of the building and launched the website www.duwo-houseofmusic.nl. This week I will be busy setting up the media release and finishing the concept for the information evening that will be organized in the building 28 October. To view the gallery extra large click here!

TodaysArt08 Live Photostream by Viewbook

TodaysArt08 was fantastic! Last Friday and Saturday night The Hague felt like the cultural epicentre of the world, with Compagnie Retouramont dancing buildings vertically and Electroheads componing melodies with self generated lightning, Interactive playgrounds in the City hall and Nouvelle Vague playing the crowds in the Anthon Phillips Theatre.

Ten professional photographers worked with us, capturing 40 of the 200 acts that performed in the city centre of The Hague. After each act the photographers dropped their images at our booth and we directly uploaded selections into a live photostream. The stream ran embedded in todaysart.nl, bright.nl, boomerang.nl and other websites. For the stream we used a regular Viewbook pro account, but with a reversed running script to get the last uploaded images in front of the autoplayed gallery.



We would like to thank the photographers that worked with us. Thumbs up for: www.harmendejong.nl, www.diknicolai.com, www.philnijhuis.nl, www.rudinswagerman.nl, www.christophvoorn.com, www.annafotografie.nl, www.irisvetter.com, www.michaelelbers.nl, jozefscuric.viewbook.com