We just launched our first issue of Photostory Weekly. Every second week we pick one submission from the Viewbook Photostory archive and provide it with background. We are starting off with Francesco Giusti’s story SAPE, and with good reason. His portrait story about the elegant Congelese ‘Sapeurs’ earned the first prize in the Viewbook Photostory 2009 Awards. Then, just a few months later, the series won a World Press Photo Award. Now it will be exposed to the world with the traveling World Press Photo Exhibition. We asked photographer and writer Miranda Gavin to share her view on the SAPE series and talk with Francesco about how it all came together. Enjoy, and feel free to share your thoughts in the comments below. If you like to keep involved be sure to subscribe to the e-mail version!
Hi,
This a good idea. We need more ‘narrative’ photo stories that go ‘beneath’ the skin of the merely cosmetic in term of technically brilliant photo/print. I have a series of images that I only completed at the end of March this year that would be suitable for inclusion in this wonderful project. You can find my series at my website – http://mattomica.viewbook.com – title:- Millennium Masquerades. Good luck!
Comment by Mattomica — April 12, 2010 @ 9:38 pm
Hi, thanks for the comment! For now the series are choosen from the 2009 submissions of the Viewbook PhotoStory contest by different writers. The 2010 submissions open 1 June, you can submit your narrative then!
Comment by Alrik - Viewbook — April 15, 2010 @ 11:46 am