About UsWelcome to FotoVisura!
FotoVisura version 1.2 (update log)
Launched June 2010
Designed & Conception by Graham Letorney
Website development by Jamie Peloquin Design
FotoVisura is an online toolbox that artists and photographers can use to publish, share and promote their work through images, video, audio, and text. FotoVisura facilitates self-publishing your work online by broadcasting it to your network of contacts, as well as displaying it in the public archive; members can also submit their work to the FotoVisura Grant, Visura's Your View gallery as well as Visura Spotlight.
The project is also a library and search engine for editors, curators, collectors and lovers of art and photography.
For more information on how to use FotoVisura, checkout the site overview and join the email list here.
Our Mission
Our goal is to slowly build and strengthen the infrastructure of the photography realm to increase job availability, opportunity, and communication. Through FotoVisura, editors can search for work; photographers can build their own networks and create their own businesses that can be sustainable in an international community. As of now, less than 5% of photographers make a living in photography. Our mission is to stimulate and increase this percentage one day at a time. In doing so, we bring together all the tools and individuals within the community who share this vision. This is a full circle, all the parts are indispensable to meet the goal, so we thank you for being a part of this movement.
Why use FotoVisura?
• FotoVisura protects your intellectual property. Meaning, when you are a member of FotoVisura, you retain the sole copyright to work published in your profile.
• FV can be used as an alternative to having a website.
• Users can embed slideshows into other websites and/or blogs. For example, you can easily use FV to power a slideshow on your WordPress website. If you have any questions about how to do this, please feel free to contact us.
• Users can share their profile, and album(s) in Twitter, Facebook, and on other social networks.
• Users can include a bio and CV, as well as a self portrait to share information about themselves.
• Users can share and bookmark albums, and invite others to join this international community.
• Users with a Standard or Plus Account can submit work to be featured in Visura Spotlight and Visura's Your View Gallery.
• Users with a Standard or Plus Account can apply to the FotoVisura Grant, Visura Spotlight, and Visura's Your View Gallery.
• Users can send us information about exhibitions, workshops they are giving or recognitions that you have received to be promoted
and announced through different resources, including FV Features Section, FV Bulletin Board, Facebook and Twitter.
• Users are part of an international photography community.
Collectively we are expanding minds. When I view the world through photography, I become a better individual. I learn about faraway people and places, reminding me that the world is vast and beyond my immediate understanding. I hope that through the personal projects found in FotoVisura, this platform inspires tolerance, respect and awareness; and brings oportunities to those who devote themselves to this sharing.
— G. Letorney, co-founder
About the Founders
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ADRIANA TERESA |
GRAHAM LETORNEY |
FotoVisura Producers
Tammy Law, Australia
Tammy Law is a Brisbane based photographer whose photo documentaries to-date have focused on post-earthquake China, ageing day-laborer homes in Japan, living situations of indigenous Australians in Far North Queensland and more recently, the distribution of gender rights in Ethiopia. Her work has been described as, ‘innovative and evocative documentary work… that include social justice issues and the ostensibly mundane urban spaces in which we live’. Tammy’s photographs have appeared in publications like Monocle Magazine, Sydney Morning Herald, Frankie Magazine, The Big Issue and Asia Geographic.
CONTACT US DIRECTLY
hello@visuramedia.com