After a week of thinking I gathered lots of positive energy, and now have a bulletproof plan to speed up the 100 cities project.  Thanks for the comments to my last blog entry, they helped a fair bit! I made the following observations: I earn enough money to live my life and payoff debts. I accepted that I will need to keep my dayjob for quite a while. when large format photography enters the game, I can not earn enough money to really tackle the 100 cities goal lots of people like my stuff and encourage me to keep on moving I couldn’t stand to wait for 18 months to start taking pictures again This leads to an easy conclusion: I give the possibility to support my venture to everyone, it was really shocking for me to see, that after more than 2 years, I do not give the opportunity to easily buy my stuff anywhere! I let people decide the directions I am going. If you support me, it is fair enough to have some sort of control where your money goes to! So how will it work? In my last post I calculated, that I will need around 5000€ per trip. I will make it very transparent where I am in the financing process for the next trip. Users will be able to support with three things: buy a print - I will set up a shop buy my book - I will publish a book on blurb soon donate via paypal - this is the noblest form of support ;) I will make it transparent what my margin on the products is. The whole margin will go to the financing of my next trip. Everyone, who supports me will get the chance to vote for the destination of my next trip out of the 100 cities list. Votes will be weighed by the amount that goes to the trip money. So if you definetely want my next trip to be to Dubai, rich sheik, just donate 5k€ and I am off to Dubai. It’s that easy :) After each trip I will giveback a full resolution image (300MPix) for all supporters with creative commons license. I’ll try to integrate the whole project financing into this blog as smooth as possible. So, I am off and need to start programming!

After a week of thinking I gathered lots of positive energy, and now have a bulletproof plan to speed up the 100 cities project.  Thanks for the comments to my last blog entry, they helped a fair bit!

I made the following observations:

  1. I earn enough money to live my life and payoff debts.
  2. I accepted that I will need to keep my dayjob for quite a while.
  3. when large format photography enters the game, I can not earn enough money to really tackle the 100 cities goal
  4. lots of people like my stuff and encourage me to keep on moving
  5. I couldn’t stand to wait for 18 months to start taking pictures again

This leads to an easy conclusion:

  1. I give the possibility to support my venture to everyone, it was really shocking for me to see, that after more than 2 years, I do not give the opportunity to easily buy my stuff anywhere!
  2. I let people decide the directions I am going. If you support me, it is fair enough to have some sort of control where your money goes to!

So how will it work? In my last post I calculated, that I will need around 5000€ per trip. I will make it very transparent where I am in the financing process for the next trip. Users will be able to support with three things:

  1. buy a print - I will set up a shop
  2. buy my book - I will publish a book on blurb soon
  3. donate via paypal - this is the noblest form of support ;)

I will make it transparent what my margin on the products is. The whole margin will go to the financing of my next trip.

Everyone, who supports me will get the chance to vote for the destination of my next trip out of the 100 cities list. Votes will be weighed by the amount that goes to the trip money. So if you definetely want my next trip to be to Dubai, rich sheik, just donate 5k€ and I am off to Dubai. It’s that easy :)

After each trip I will giveback a full resolution image (300MPix) for all supporters with creative commons license.

I’ll try to integrate the whole project financing into this blog as smooth as possible.

So, I am off and need to start programming!

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