What The!?!!

Thank you for your recent submission concerning...

Unfortunately, due to the high volume of submissions...

This is not to suggest that your work...

We look forward to seeing more... 

 

You know, the usual rejection rap- which is completely what I expected... I entered P-A-N-D-E-M-A-N-I-A! in this photobook competition expecting the proverbial snowball's chance in hell. Now, I had no idea what kind of submissions would be made here- particularly concerning the quality of... presentation. I've seen the quality of design, materials and craftsmanship that go into some of these indie publications: Corinthian leather covers (I prefer velour), hand bound papyrus pages sewn together with frozen Mastodon sinew and a needle made of Narwhal tusk, fold out pages, inserts, secret compartments- versus a generic Blurb production with barely satisfactory reproductions. Yeah, good luck with dat!

And yet, and yet... Somehow it snuck through the cracks! Musta been the added uhhh... narration (ie- captions)- yeah, that's the ticket! Like I've said, Blurb is the dummy for the book that ya really wanna make; and somehow, that aspiration must have got through, since my usual book announcements are uniformly greeted with a resounding crescendo of... crickets!

Well, it's the Big Time from now on- nothing but Pink Champale and the very best of men's wear from Members Only!

P-A-N-D-E-M-A-N-I-A! will now be exhibited with several other photobooks in not one, but two galleries- at the Davis/Orton Gallery from 11/20-12/19 and The Griffin Museum of Photography from 1/06-2/27...

Photo: ©  Stan Banos

ADDENDUM: In the About the Book section at the Davis/Orton Gallery site, it should read: "Although San Francisco evaded a high number of deaths, it manifested most of the other problems prevalent elsewhere– skyrocketing unemployment and an already endemic homeless population that swelled unto streets and sidewalks well beyond downtown."