Month: December 2014
-
On Joining the Board of Directors of the Sunlight Foundation
Today the Sunlight Foundation announced that I, along with three others, have joined their board of directors. Snip: the Sunlight Foundation announced that Sue Gardner, Allison Fine, Mark Horvit and Daniel X. O’Neil would join its board of directors. “As we begin a new chapter here at the Sunlight Foundation, we are thrilled to add these four…
-
Why I Take Pictures
Earlier this week, my youngest son played in his middle school basketball championship game. I got there early, and was setting up my camera. The JV game was finishing up, and it got pretty dramatic. The game was tied at 26. The visiting team— a set of sixth and seventh graders from a small league that…
-
New Conceptual Art Project for 2015: COLLABORATION STOCK PHOTOS
Stock photography is abysmal. Over the last decade or so, I have attempted to change this fact in a couple of concrete ways: I have published more than 35,000 photos to Flickr licensed under Creative Commons with all my stuff I have maintained a Tumblr called Chicago Stock Photographer with what I perceive to be…