Derek and Heather leave JPG Magazine

Jason — Tue, 15 May 2007 23:14:02 +0000

Two of the founding members of JPG Magazine, Derek Powazek and Heather Champ have left 8020 Publishing over what appears to be an attempt at revisionism on the part of JPG’s “CEO.” It’s a sad story and I can’t imagine how hard it is for Derek and Heather to walk away from the community they grew. I’ll leave the “right” or the “wrong” up to you, dear reader:

Derek’s The Real Story of JPG Magazine
Heather’s blog post

There’s been a pretty strong reaction on Flickr and I’ll soon be adding myself to the list after I get my refund for my subscription. Upsetting that I had just subscribed to the magazine and was really looking forward to it.

You can still find the pre-revisionist issues of JPG Magazine on LuLu.

Update (16 May 2007): There’s been a lengthy discussion of the matter on Flickr, including comments from JPG Magazine. Part of me feels a bit knee-jerk reactionary on this, but the issues involved are complicated: mixing business/personal relationships, maintaining transparency, etc. etc. We web folk are a passionate (oft reactionary) bunch, which makes dealing with situations like this that much more difficult.

Color photos from the World War I era

Jason — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 03:07:57 +0000

This is amazing. Almost a hundred years ago, Russian photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii was using a three-exposure camera to take what amounts to the red, green, and blue channels of a photo. He then projected the three exposures through their associated filters and, well, you can see the results:

“Color film was non-existent in 1909 Russia, yet in that year a photographer named Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii embarked on a photographic survey of his homeland and captured hundreds of photos in full, vivid color.”

Full article: Color photos from the World War I era

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Derek and Heather leave JPG Magazine

Color photos from the World War I era