RE: Traveling portfolio?

["Trond Kjetil Holst" <tkholst@online.no>]

I too live in Europe, in the very far north of Norway. I posted a message on
this thread earlier, but forgot to mention that I am very interested to
participate.
The traveling portfolio is a great idea, and as I see it, it is the paper
prints that are the important thing to see (and feel), and not a jpeg copy
of the print.
I am participating in a print swap group among a few pinhole photographers
all around the world. The first swap has not started yet, but is planned to
September 1. I will then have to send 1 print to each of the participants in
the swap group, and hopefully receive one print from each of the others.
This will cost a bit, but I feel it is worth it. Of course the group must
not be to big, the pinhole group are 18 persons, and that is enough, i
think.

I would be very interested to participate in the traveling portfolio as
well, but I like the idea of the print swap better.

I have tried different traveling letter books, but they always stops
somewhere in the line, and after a while dissapears from (someones) memory.
There is a danger that this also can happen to the traveling portfolio.

Any other thoughts on this?

Regards
Trond Kjetil Holst

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-epson-inkjet@leben.com
> [mailto:owner-epson-inkjet@leben.com]On Behalf Of Rob Geraghty
> Sent: 16. august 1999 07:30
> To: epson-inkjet@leben.com
> Subject: Re: Traveling portfolio?
>
>
> Paul Bingham <hollow@istar.ca> wrote:
> >> Would any of you, photographers in particular, be
> >> interested in establishing a portfolio group that
> >> would enable us to share each other's Epson
> >> prints "in the flesh"?
> > I would be interested.  A similar system is used by
> > PSA (Photographic Society of America) and CAPA
> > (Canadian Assoc. for Photographic Art).
>
> Is the idea of this to be able to see what others have
> managed to do with their printer?  Sounds like a great
> idea, but for those of us outside north america it
> probably wouldn't work really well - too expensive to
> mail around.  Electronic is an option, but the jpegs
> would need to be of enough resolution that one could
> see the pecularities caused by the printer otherwise
> you might as well send a jpeg of the digital original.
>
> Rather than using email, I could set up a forum on my
> web site which people could post pictures to - but
> you'd have to put the jpeg on a URL of your own, or
> email it to me to put on my site.  That way, the
> pictures would be available to anyone on the web as
> samples of the artists' work and could be posted with
> links to their sites.  If people don't want the images
> generally available I should be able to password the
> page.
>
> I'd love to see the prints on paper, but the cost for
> me would be prohibitive.
>
> Rob
>
>

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