June 02
If You Leave Showcase
Our favourite photography blog If You Leave has launched a Kickstarter to, well, kickstart an international showcase. We've confessed our love to IYL before. To keep things from getting awkward, we'll stop talking about how we feel about a website and instead her straight to it. Laurence Von Thomas, the photographer that started IYL as a personal blog in 2009, wants to give some talented people a physical exhibition ground. When normally exhibitions have submission fees, Von Thomas wanted to go about if differently. To make the showcase accessible to all artists, he's waiving the submission fees and hoping to raise the funds through Kickstarter. We've found a number of photographers we love through IYL. Some we've even featured on our blog, like Hadar Ariel Magar and Reuben Wu. Judging by the huge following If You Leave has, we're not the only ones loving it. It's Von Thomas' approach that does it - he doesn't look at large bodies of work but rather focuses on the individual merit of an image. This is why every single image on the blog packs a punch. Now imagine those photos taking over East London! The showcase won't have one set location - instead it will be spread across Dalston and Hackney, filling our postal code with art. We like the sound of that. If you're a talented photographer with works that capture the beauty in loneliness, the submissions are open until the 8th of July. If you'd rather just love the art, the Kickstarter is going until the end of June. Here's Von Thomas talking about the blog and the project: Photographes previously shown on the blog: [caption id="attachment_24880" align="aligncenter" width="640"]
Luc Dupin[/caption] [caption id="attachment_24881" align="aligncenter" width="640"]
Carter Murdoch[/caption] [caption id="attachment_24882" align="aligncenter" width="640"]
Giulia Bersani[/caption] [caption id="attachment_24883" align="aligncenter" width="640"]
Jonas Loiske[/caption] [caption id="attachment_24884" align="aligncenter" width="640"]
Laurence Von Thomas[/caption] [caption id="attachment_24885" align="aligncenter" width="1024"]
Matthew Lief Anderson[/caption] [caption id="attachment_24886" align="aligncenter" width="1024"]
Mirrah Johnson[/caption] [caption id="attachment_24887" align="aligncenter" width="1024"]
Nicolas Colemonts[/caption] [caption id="attachment_24888" align="aligncenter" width="640"]
Reuben Wu[/caption] [caption id="attachment_24889" align="aligncenter" width="640"]
Seren Coşkun[/caption] [caption id="attachment_24890" align="aligncenter" width="640"]
Segey Neamoscou[/caption] [caption id="attachment_24891" align="aligncenter" width="640"]
Théo Gosselin[/caption]
Luc Dupin[/caption] [caption id="attachment_24881" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Carter Murdoch[/caption] [caption id="attachment_24882" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Giulia Bersani[/caption] [caption id="attachment_24883" align="aligncenter" width="640"]
Jonas Loiske[/caption] [caption id="attachment_24884" align="aligncenter" width="640"]
Laurence Von Thomas[/caption] [caption id="attachment_24885" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Matthew Lief Anderson[/caption] [caption id="attachment_24886" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Mirrah Johnson[/caption] [caption id="attachment_24887" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Nicolas Colemonts[/caption] [caption id="attachment_24888" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Reuben Wu[/caption] [caption id="attachment_24889" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Seren Coşkun[/caption] [caption id="attachment_24890" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Segey Neamoscou[/caption] [caption id="attachment_24891" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Théo Gosselin[/caption]