14th photoshoot THIS Sunday, July 29

Click the flyer to see the event posting on Myspace.

Please call 248-632-6156 to get involved on the shoot. This will be one of the most exciting locations we've used yet. Check out the video below...

JPG Magazine: Blog: Calling all designers!

The Abandoned In Detroit story is submitted to JPG Magazine for Issue 12, which has a Fashion theme. The key photo for the story has been gathering votes. The story however could definitely use more support in the form of votes.

One of the other themes is Creative License. The magazine is making it pretty simple for designers to get into the swing of writing a story submission so it gets into the magazine. They wrote a blog post that offers a simple template for submitting your story for publication.

This is an IDEAL opportunity for Abandoned In Detroit to take a very noticeable position of publicity through getting MULTIPLE stories and photos published. So I'm appealing to the designers out there to go through the story submission process and post a few supporting photos. Check out the blog posting - it poses 7 easy questions as a template. Just fill it out, put up a photo in the Creative License theme and do it quickly. August 1 is the deadline for photos and stories to go into Issue 12.

Fashion In The Streets 2

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I was out photographing Fashion In The Streets 2 at Campus Martius in the center of downtown Detroit and a couple of fellow photographers on the AID project were there. Thanks Larry Winn for catching me at the location. It was great to see you, meet your family and see Jonathan (Fiyar Photography) there as well. Check out Larry's photos on Flickr.

My photos from Fashion In The Streets 2 can be found on my website. You'll find three galleries to check out...

• Fashions by Sharrone, featuring her new t-shirt designs, the "seabreeze" cruise wear line, her signature "skindeeper" line of denim with leather, and new elegant gowns featuring rabal fabric from Senegal.
• Performers including the dancers of Thiosane Dance Company, actors for the play Choices, The Model Workshop with Lionesse singing, and two gospel singers.
• People photos including the MCs and sponsors for the evening ranging from Arnold Mitsubishi (giving away a car), Northland Mall, and more.

The event is a membership drive for the Charles H Wright African American Historical Museum. For more information about Fashion In The Streets visit the website.

JPG Magazine FASHION story submission

It seems the time for the Abandoned In Detroit project is coming to a head. Issue 12 of JPG Magazine is leading off with the theme FASHION, with 53 days left of voting for content.

Click here to view the story submission. I'll be opening this up for revision and addition of photos. We've got another photoshoot tomorrow, June 10, plus another July 29 - both fall within the time for submission of content to the issue.

Please vote for the lead photo of the story which is linked below.

I have a few additional fashion magazines to write articles for at this time as well. If you can offer a critique of the story or writing style, I'd appreciate the input. Each story submission will be original yet have many of the same elements covered.

Indirect Publicity through Good For Party

One of the photos from an early pre-project inspiration photoshoot was picked up by the GFP blog. Thanks Jessica and Heather for being an inspiration for a successful project.

Location: Fisher Body Plant 21
Date: July 31, 2005