Call for Photographs from the Expedition for the Photo book

Let's make a photo book of the Lost Highway Expedition. The book will be the second in the series of LHE publications following the LHE Reader and it will be released in October 2007. The photo book will contain approximately 240 pages filled with full color images and captions and a brief introduction. The photo book will be organized as a calendar; day-by-day from the trip, and so will have 26 sections, each represented with 8 pages.

The goal of the book is to give a sense of the multiplicity of perspectives that made up the expedition experience. To this end, rather than following a singular criterion for choosing every image, the process will be more idiosyncratic. Every day will have its own organizing principle and aim for a balance of several overall goals. The book should contain image/s from every person who contributes, of every city, of people who traveled in the expedition, of each partner/organization (not necessarily literally), activities/events in the cities, of architecture, from the route in between cities, images that relate to the theme explored in each city set out in the Reader, some of high resolution, some of not so high resolution, that show several interpretations of a moment or monument captured many times on the same day by many people, that show a singular individual moment only captured by one person. Some concepts for a single day could be: monument, self-organization, massive movement, urban blocks, altitude, etc, your idea here.

Please submit images by sending them on a CD or DVD to Katherine Carl & Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss, Jungstrasse 11, 4056 Basel, Switzerland and email to katherine@thenao.net or srdjan@thenao.net to alert us that your material is on the way. You may submit all your photographs unedited, or you may send a selection. The deadline for receiving the material is April 20, 2007.

All photos sent and used will be protected against unauthorized usage. All published photos will be credited and it is a one-time use.

So far there is some seed funding for publishing from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia and the Cultural Ministry of Serbia, and support for the working sessions for the Source Pool (which may result in a third publication in the LHE series) from European Cultural Foundation and Trust for Mutual Understanding.

We look forward to add your image to the growing archive of 10,000 images already in the LHE database.

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