Spitting Art, Everywhere

The missus and I love the magazines put out by 8020 Publishing: JPG and Everywhere. These are community-driven magazines with reliably eye-opening content, from photos to essays. JPG is all about photography. Everywhere is all about travel.

Members of the online community (like, for example, me) submit pictures and short articles of their creation, retaining their own copyrights, and then cross their fingers. Other members vote. The editors select. The magazine is put together from chosen submissions received during the months between issues. Everyone whose work gets featured gets paid a bit and a free subscription. It’s nice.

It’s also sort of an open editorial process, not that different from a public slush-pile that welcomes community input. Simple and brilliant. The photos these magazines manage to get are remarkable—there are a lot of people out there with cameras, and lots of them are taking stunning pictures. It’s actually more than a little intimidating.

So you can imagine that the missus and I were pretty excited when we had a piece chosen for inclusion in Everywhere magazine this month. This newest issue (Issue 3) publishes a picture taken by Sara, which I tweaked and then wrote a caption for. (I’m in this picture, and you know I don’t like to have my picture taken.) The magazine credits me with the whole thing, which is my fault (I didn’t correct the attribution on the website), but you should know that Sara took the original picture.

Want to see it? The editors have just posted a sneak peek inside Everywhere #3 over on their blog. Nice work, Sara!

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