Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >On Nov 19, 2007, at 8:58 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: > >> When I was about 5 years old one of my favorite stories was "The >> Little >> Red Hen". She spends most of the story trying to get the other >> barnyard >> animals to help her make bread, but no one wants to help with >> harvesting the wheat, grinding it into flour, making the dough, >> etc.... >> but in the end they all want to help eat the loaf. >> >> The Pentax Gallery seems to be a little like that: A lot of people >> want >> to get their photos shown there, but very few pitch in to the work >> that >> makes the Gallery possible. > >The question this raises is: "What is the purpose of the PPG and does >the voting system actually support achieving that goal?" > >My understanding is that the PPG is a site designed to attract >customers and sell Pentax equipment. It's not an artists' collective >web gallery presented for the purpose of celebrating photography or >selling the artists' work. It's a marketing tool in which Pentax >offers users of their equipment a place to show work that they, >Pentax, deem to show the equipments' capabilities in a good enough >light to motivate sales. > >On that basis, it is Pentax responsibility to fund and manage the >submission and acceptance business, not anyone else's.
I certainly understand that view. But I have a hard time believing that all these photographers are sending in images with the impression they're doing nothing more than contribute to a marketing campaign. If you hold the view then I'd think you'd be morally obliged to refuse to participate (send images). My view is that the gallery is group effort that is also a means of promotion for the photographers whose work is on display. (And the tougher it is to get work accepted, the more valuable acceptance is). So from my perspective, anyone submitting photos and expecting the benefits of recognition that come with acceptance is morally obligated to assist is making the project work and pitching in every once in a while. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
