FOCUSED dispatch | Robert Caplin
Eds note: Robert Caplin is everywhere: Exclusive access to the Biebs (If you’re not a teenage girl, that’s Justin Bieber). Running the successful photo blog The Photo Brigade. Being just a kick-ass photographer and traveling the globe doing what he does best. He generously took the time to chat about his rolling with celebrities and [...]
FOCUSED dispatch | Brad Mangin
Photos © Jean Fruth Eds Note: Brad Mangin is baseball photography. That’s it. He breathes it. Lives it. Owns it. If you’ve seen a kick-ass baseball photo over a double-truck in a magazine lately, I’d gamble it’s his. It was truly a pleasure to have him make a frame while on assignment for Sports [...]
FOCUSED dispatch | Ami Vitale
Eds note: FOCUSED has blessed me with many things: inspiration. excitement. passion. stress. happiness. All this multiplied as a result of hearing the stories from around the globe of the cameras being put to use. One thing I could have never predicted was that one little idea from a napkin would put me in contact [...]
FOCUSED dispatch | Sol Neelman
Photo © Erika Schultz Eds note: I’ve asked some of the first FOCUSED photographers to document their time with the camera. A dear friend and amazing photographer, Sol Neelman (above, after making his frame), fresh off a stellar book release of his life project documenting Weird Sports, which is being currently being featured in such [...]
track the FOCUSED cameras!
Just added a cool new feature to the site, where you can now track the pathways, mileage, and destination at any given point over the next year of the project! Very exciting to know that even on launch there is thousands of miles of travel already covered. CHECK THE MAP HERE The 50mm kit (see [...]
bon voyage FOCUSED cameras…
This week, the first five FOCUSED cameras are beginning their journeys across the globe with the final camera departing Monday, October 31st. The first camera kit – each one different (above with a k1000 and 28mm f/2.8 lens) – is travelling approximately 8350 miles to Delhi, India, and into the hands of one of the [...]
FOCUSED in The New Yorker!
Photo © Ami Vitale Check out FOCUSED in the always inspiring The New Yorker Photo Booth blog! It has a wonderful story about the project, but more importantly has a great selection of photos and discusion about the decisive moment from 11 of the 200 photographers participating in FOCUSED including Scott Strazzante, Ami Vitale, Richard Koci Hernandez, Melissa [...]
FOCUSED on Wired.com!
FOCUSED is featured over at Wired on popular Raw File blog! Many thanks to Jakob Schiller for the story/interview. Go check it out…here.
the FOCUSED camera kits
How about a little sneak peak at the kits that will be travelling the world to the 200 photojournalists participating in FOCUSED? There will be at least five kits heading out to everywhere and anywhere from the White House press pool to the Super Bowl to a warzone in Afghanistan to a neighborhood in New [...]
about FOCUSED
FOCUSED Project Synopsis • The Mission: One camera. One click. One moment. In an age where digital photography, the Internet, and motor drives have accelerated the process of image-making, the thought, vision and construction of the decisive moment gets lost in the rush. FOCUSED will bring a diverse group of photojournalists from across the [...]
FOCUSED benefits
Proceeds from FOCUSED benefit the following international nonprofits and programs that are dedicated to photography education for youth. Please visit their sites to learn more about what they do and who your contribution will be helping. Critical Exposure is a nonprofit that teaches youth to use the power of photography and their own voices [...]
donate to FOCUSED
FOCUSED is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the purposes of FOCUSED must be made payable to Fractured Atlas and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law. DONATE
FOCUSED photographers
Thank you to the amazing photographers – from students to Pulitzer Prize winners – who are signing up daily to contribute their time and a click for FOCUSED. This project is a labor of love for our craft and FOCUSED couldn’t happen without you. Sam Abell William Albert Allard Johnny Andrews Ying Ang Zack Arias [...]