Hello everyone,
An hour ago, or thereabouts, I threw myself into the world of crowd funding by launching my first ever Kickstarter campaign. This is to raise part-funding for illustrations for an edited book on post-industrial sites & memory. The book 'Reanimating Industrial Spaces: Conducting memory-work in post-industrial societies' is due to be published by Left Coast Press in September 2014. You might remember that I ran sessions on this theme at TAG (2009, with Sefryn) and EAA (2010, with Emily).
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1172412771/illustrate-book-reanimating-industrial-spaces
You may be wondering why I'm looking for funding. Well, Left Coast Press normally print around 40 images per edited volume. Reanimating will include around 90 images including 30 colour plates. The publisher has asked for a subvention of £1500 to use a different press for the colour printing. £1100 of the £1500 needed has already been raised. Just £400 to go!
I've been inspired by a number of books to push for a richly illustrated volume. "A Fearsome Heritage" by John Schofield and Wayne Cocroft; Steven High and David Lewis' "Corporate Wasteland: The Landscape and Memory of Deindustrialization"; and, of course, "Persistent Memories: Pyramiden - A Soviet Mining Town in the High Arctic" by Hein Bjerk, Bjorar Olsen and Elin Andreassen. Plus, the contributors to the volume have taken some wonderful photographs which I feel deserve care and attention.
Hope that you will take a look at the Kickstarter and consider backing the book or sharing the link. I'm very grateful for any support. 3 people have so far bravely stepped out onto the Crowd funding dancefloor and in an hour over £70 has been pledged which is brilliant!
Thanks everyone!
Hilary
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