The 2010 Project Newsletter #2

The competition is well and truly under way. We’ve now had well over 100 submissions, and word is spreading fast – thank you for that.

Judges

We are delighted to announce that, as well as Jane Green, we have 3 more judges now:

Mary McCartney.

Mary started her career as a photographer in 1995. Since then, her work has spanned the worlds of portrait and fashion photography. Mary’s assignments have led to her work appearing in editorial titles such as Harpers Bazaar and Interview Magazine, as well as high impact advertising campaigns for Gossard, Stella McCartney, Adidas, Aga, Boucherer and Mandarin Oriental.

You can find out more about Mary at www.marymccartney.com

Paul Ross

Paul is a television and radio presenter, journalist, and media personality, he is This Morning’s resident TV reporter. A rare talent within the media, Paul is as well known behind the cameras as in front; on radio as on television; and as a serious journalist as well as a quick-witted celebrity. Paul writes a weekly column for the Daily Star on Sunday. Paul has made numerous TV appearances and hosted his own show.

Ju Gosling

Ju Gosling, aka ju90, is a 40-something disabled webmaster and multimedia storyteller who works mainly with digital lens-based media, but also with performance, text and sound. Ju works largely within the theories and traditions of the disability arts movement, and has gained an international reputation. She recently completed a part-time artist’s residency at the National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR), funded by the Wellcome Trust.

You can find out more about Ju at http://www.ju90.co.uk/

We are looking at having one celebrity judge and one celebrity photographer judge for each category, so if you know anyone who would be interested in helping us out, please contact us.

The 2010 Project Photoshop Action

Michael Shilling has created a very special Photoshop action especially for The 2010 Project. It is incredibly user friendly and comes with a set of control which work as buttons in your actions window.

This can be yours in return for a £5 donation to the JustGiving page.

The action is basically a set of colour filters which can be combined and painted non-destructively.

The 2010 Project mentioned in the New Media Photographer Podcast

Thank you Rosh Sillars for showcasing us in your podcast: http://www.newmediaphotographer.com/2010/04/new-media-photographer-podcast-95/

Thank you everyone who has been spreading the word about the project on Facebook, Twitter, forums and your websites. For more information of how you can help visit the Spread the Word section.

Facebook - www.facebook.com/the2010project

Our Facebook page as proved extremely popular with over 460 fans from over 20 different countries now.

Just for fun the team at the 2010 Project will be posting our favourite Image of the Week. You can see the latest one here -

The 2010 Project’s Photos – Image of the week

Twitter - twitter.com/the2010project

All project submissions and project updates can be found by following our Twitter feed. Already this week we have 28 followers. Help spread the word by re-tweeting and using the #the2010project tag.

A quick and easy way to share your favourite submission is to use the Tweet button you’ll find in the top right hand corner of every post.

LinkedIn - The 2010 Project

For all of you LinkedIn users we have a group just for you. Not only can you get all the latest news but we’ll be on hand to answer any questions you may have about the project.

The Forum - Join the conversation

We’d love to to join the conversation in our Forum. For those of you who have expressed their desire to help us out at The 2010 Project Marketing and Promotional Ideas and Sponsorship is the best place to start.

If you have any questions about the categories or would like to discuss how they might be interpreted then we have a section for each category.

Portraiture - Street - Fine Art - Natural World - Things - Photoshop Magic

Any questions you might have can be posted at Submitting Images or General Project Questions.

It’s good to socialise and being an international competition The 2010 Project is a great place to share ideas from photographers from around the world.

We have a social club for Non-photography related topics and Photography related topics. Your first step is to come and Introduce Yourself.

Donations

Last but by certainly no means least a big thank you to everyone who has donated via our Just Giving page. The total so far is £464.00.

Thank you

Tom Ivory, Mercedes Maria Melgueira Pimentel, Claire (CJ) James, Tim Hoy, Mark Davies, Silvia Brizi, Elizabeth James, Jess Cousins, David Routledge, Joy Cochrane, Anonymous, Mark Cornwell, Ken Irvine, Adam Marlborough, Keith Adams, Jenny Martin, Pamela McNamara, Alan McGuinness, Carl Batson, Tim Hoy, Paul Minoli, Angela Prabhu, J O’Connor, Polis Varnava, Gill McGowan, Heinz Schmidt, Kevin Mullins, Mike Hoy, Michael Shilling, Martin Malocco, Joe Lundie, Susan Renée, Salma Hayek, Frances McAndrew, Doon Ram, Caron Wasserman.