My Waking Life

It is with great excitement that I announce the launch of the brand new Luceo Images website. Our revamped destination will feature a dynamic new group blog with individual blogs for each photographer that will be updated regularly. While there is always a twinge of nostalgia that comes with closing an outlet to share thoughts and personal work, this move has been anxiously anticipated and we are excited to start showcasing all the hard work that has gone into this new creation.

So pull up your stakes and move on over to my new blog. Make yourself at home, we’ll be here a while. Click here.

Check out the October issur of PDN on newstands for the Atlanta City Guide where the image above is featured as well as some quotes from me about my fair city.  The photograph is from a shoot for The FADER Magazine with producers Dow Jones and Henny of ‘Tha Bizness’ in the Little Five Points borough of Atlanta, Ga.

Zombies in Atlanta.  It’s all fun and games until someone gets their arm eaten off.

I recently spent some time photographing Roberta Antonio for the Wall Street Journal.  As the economy has declined, employers have cut benefits, staff, shared health costs, and retirement contribument at alarming rates.  Some people, like Antonio, have been able to hang on to lost jobs by coming back in a contract capacity.  Antonio has even found that she likes working from home as an added benefit.

I recently spent the day with Tom Dunn, a former defense lawyer for death row inmates, has traded the courtroom for the classroom and now teaches language arts at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School near downtown Atlanta.  Dunn now feels that he has a chance to change the course of lives before it’s too late.  To read more and check out the nytimes slideshow click here.

Luceo will be presenting for the latest Open-i Webinar tomorrow morning at 15:00 GMT (that’s 11am, for you east coasters).  The webinar will last one hour and will be in conjunction with Nophoto, Drik, and Wéyo.  More information about the webinar is available on facebook here or anyone wishing to just log in and join the conversation can do so here.  Full description below.

Event Description

Miki Johnson, Founder & Editor of the RESOLVE blog, is organizing this webinar on collectives.

For many photographers, one of the hardest things about the current business paradigm is that it requires them to work totally on their own. Photographers not only have to make photos, record audio, and capture video, they are also running their own business, coming up with their own assignments, and marketing their own work.

There are many innovative groups working against this trend, who understand the benefits of banding together with other creatives, including people with different skill sets, like marketing, accounting, and design. This webinar will ask four such groups to answer three basic questions:
1. How are you running your organization?
2. What are the benefits for the photographers/professionals involved?
3. What plans do you have for the future and what challenges do you face?

The four groups answering these questions will be:
Wéyo: A U.S. company that creates complete publicity/marketing packages for NGOs and nonprofits.
Drik: A Bangladesh photo group that educates local photographers and helps disseminate their work.
Luceo Images: A collective of young American photographers who are exploring new business models.
Nophoto: A Madrid-based collective that has created dynamic photo-based art and marketing campaigns.

Anyone working in the photography space is welcome. We hope especially that those who are collaborating in groups like these or weighing the benefits of such collaboration will join us. In closing the discussion we’d like to explore what the possible impact of these organizations might be on photojournalism in general. We’d love to hear your thoughts!

JOIN THE LIVE WEBINAR AT 15:00 GMT. To ensure your audio is working properly, log in 15 minutes before the start of the webinar to run the set-up wizard. For help with webinars, follow this link.