Thanks to Photo District News for once again choosing us for their Photo Annual! This time for advertising and editorial! We’re 4 for 4 with with this one and actually might make the party this year. Also, Thanks to Natalie Flemming for giving a shout out to our gallery in the same issue.
Semi-Permanent Sydney 2009 Montage from Semi Permanent on Vimeo.
Semi Permanent is a creative festival that happens in the land down under and they asked little old us to come and speak at their Melbourne event October 10th. I get ridiculously nervous about speaking in front of 20 people let alone 2000 but how could I turn down an amazing opportunity like this and a free trip to Australia! I’ll get over it quickly. If you live in Australia please come and say hello or invite us for a drink, we’re there for a week. So excited.
Bam! And you say goddamn, this is a dope jam? OK, enough Public Enemy.
Back to the contest.
We honestly had no idea when we decided to give away our old camera for a print from someone how big this contest would actually get. Over 1600 people sent in photos, 5 photos per person. Meaning, we looked at over 8000 images to get it down the the final 5. Scratch that, 10. We decided to each pick 5, don’t get mad… it’s our contest for our camera and we didn’t want to argue.
People from all over the world sent in stuff and we want to thank every one of you for taking the time to do so, I wish we had 100 of these cameras to give away. There was a lot of great stuff but what it came down to is what would we love to have big hanging on our wall (that was the whole point remember) and here they are in no particular order after the jump. (images can be clicked to see a bigger version).
We just got word that we are winners in the advertising category of the 2009 PDN Photo Annual for the work we did last summer for Converse in Portland. So stoked to be a part of it, it’s one contest that I’ve always paid attention to but never entered. In fact, this is the only contest we’ve ever entered and honestly probably would have forgotten to if it wasn’t for the constant reminders from our amazing reps. So, thank you ladies for putting the pressure on. It’s not that we’re lazy (even though we bought a brand new car in January of last year that has yet to be washed), it’s just for some reason we never think about it. It’s hard sometimes to turn off what you’re doing right now and sit down and look over older work, we’d much rather be shooting new stuff than showing what we’ve already done. But you have to sometimes and I’m glad we did. Maybe we were just secretly scared of losing? Who knows, but what I do know is it feels great to see your photos somewhere other than your book or computer screen and feels even greater when someone else likes what you’re up to and gives you a trophy for it. Is that what we get, a trophy? I’ll let you know. Working with Converse (and Brandon) over the last year has been so much fun and by the looks of it people are digging what’s been coming out of it. Maybe we’ll remember to enter another contest soon.
