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夢想、幻想、和理想化……均屬空靈……幾乎沒有人能夠掌握或保有...然而，這就是我生活的目標，而且構(gòu)建了我做任何事情的基本框架...開始... 并保持我一直前行...我瘋狂的想法隨風飄揚...然而有時，只有有時，會出現(xiàn)一些...
BURN雜志今天已經(jīng)一歲了...我真不敢想它馬上就要兩歲了！但是，我每一天都像最初那樣，我也想法也如從前，結(jié)合命運，我將盡我所能保住觀眾驅(qū)動雜志健在...
2009年一直是令人驚喜的一年（如榮獲Lucie 獎）。一個“瘋狂的想法”突然出現(xiàn)在我的腦海中，無緣無故地，而我正在杜蘭哥，科羅拉多州這里的一個桌子上寫這些文字……。RODE TRIPS的構(gòu)思權(quán)就是在這里誕生的，而BURN也是在去年的這一天在這里第一次出版的……。就在那個房間，我的父親艾倫安靜的死去,那天是個下雪的圣誕清晨，我們?nèi)叶季墼谶@里。在這個房子里，我的仍然健在的母親瑪爾雅娜與記憶談?wù)撝磥?hellip;...樂觀和滿足,還有溫暖……在我們的這個家庭，每天總是充滿了可能…….
以上虛構(gòu)的就是這種可能性……或許,不僅僅是一種可能性，而更多的是一個現(xiàn)實……很難復(fù)制……在未來的幾周內(nèi)作為收藏者一再要求的印刷雜志出版……安東·庫斯特斯和我都努力做到這一點……然而，以上也只是虛構(gòu)的…...最后的版本會與上面的有所不同，但是它給了我們一些靈感……可以確定的是會像往常一樣有障礙……但是,當主要的出版物正在縮減硬拷貝生產(chǎn)并轉(zhuǎn)移到網(wǎng)絡(luò)時,我們已經(jīng)在網(wǎng)絡(luò)上,并向?qū)⒁恍┯部截惿a(chǎn)轉(zhuǎn)成雜志和書的形式邁進……。
從ROAD TRIPS 那些日子就一直跟著我的人知道我總是會產(chǎn)生一個夢想或主意，然后就盡自己最大的努力去實現(xiàn)它……一些想法會半路丟失，但是還會有一些會成為現(xiàn)實……你們可以回過頭想想那些曾經(jīng)說過的話和那些曾經(jīng)發(fā)生過的事情……
在BURN生日的今天，我宣布拿出15000美元作為新興攝影師基金授予2010年最佳青年攝影師……詳情和期限在2010年1月初宣布……肖恩•加拉赫和亞歷簡德羅·查斯克艾爾伯格是2008年和2009年的獲獎?wù)?hellip;…如果你了解他們的工作和他們的努力，你就會知道他們拿到這個獎是理所當然的……陪審團是從我們這個行業(yè)里選出來的，他們將從10到20名入圍者中選出2010年新興攝影師基金的獲獎?wù)摺?/p>
每年的這個時候都是收獲的時候，謝謝那些幫助過我們的人，我想對那些為BURN或2009新興攝影師基金提供資金援助的你們表達我最衷心的感謝……你們每個人都將收到我以個人名義寄出的信件，如果您還沒有收到的話……我們新的投稿按鈕包括選擇訂閱，當然所有這些都是完全自愿的，我們會繼續(xù)努力工作為那些喜歡BURN作為一個自由選擇的和那些能夠好心投稿的人……我們感激你們的到來……單憑安東和我是不能令BURN達到今天的成績的，你們的投稿即使不是幫助我們繁榮也是幫助我們生存了下來。
我們有兩個授權(quán)的作家正努力工作看是否能收到重大支持，不僅僅是保持BURN，而且允許支付攝影師……這是我們現(xiàn)在最大的難題，而且取得這個基金本身就是一個全職的工作……在我們做這個的過程中，不僅是一個贊助和授予的問題，而且是一個全職總經(jīng)理的必要條件的問題……
重點是我和安東都不希望放棄攝影師那樣生活……我們都有重要的項目……使BURN以一個有意義的方式前進。至于贊助和攝影師的傭金，將需要一個全職的人來管理這些基金和工作流程……我們都意識到即使我們想要的其中一部分真正來臨，我們的攝影生涯都將結(jié)束……因為BURN更多的是從管理的立場來看，而不是從創(chuàng)新的角度……
BURN的編輯和設(shè)計無論是在網(wǎng)上還是印刷我和安東都能在不干涉我們的攝影生涯的情況下完成，但是現(xiàn)在的第一步就是需要一個全職的人來管理重要的基金……我現(xiàn)在正在招聘那樣的人……他是一個管理者，而不是個攝影師……他只是一個商人，而不是一個藝術(shù)家……
當然，這就是我們?nèi)绾握_的構(gòu)造瑪格南商業(yè)……而且那個模式就是它運作的模式……一個最有可能使BURN成為即將到來的瑪格南新上線的一部分的模式……然而從這點看來BURN明顯地吐出非瑪格南攝影師的特點，
dreams, fantasies, and idealizations….all ethereal in nature….and hardly anything one can grasp or hold onto…yet, this is what i live for and form the basic building blocks for anything i have ever done….the starting point….and what always keep me going…my crazy ideas are usually just that…gone with the wind…however, sometimes and only sometimes , does something come out of it….
Burn Magazine is one year old today….i have no idea if Burn will ever be two! but, i take things one day at a time, one idea at a time, and with a combo of fate and hard work will do all i can to keep this audience driven magazine alive and well…
2009 has been a year of surprises (like the Lucie Award) and born from a “crazy idea” that popped into my head for no apparent reason right from the table where i now write here in Durango, Colorado…yes, Road Trips conceived right here, and Burn first published right here on this date last year….from the very room where my father Alan died peacefully on a snowy Christmas morning with family gathered, and in the house where my mother Maryanna now lives…a room with memories and conversations that speak of the future…of optimism and fulfillment and warmth…in our family, possibility is always the order of the day…
the dummy cover above is such a possibility….well, a bit more than a possibility, and much more of a reality….hard copy….to be published as an on-demand collectors' print magazine within the next few weeks….Anton Kusters and i are both working to make this happen….again, the above cover is dummy copy…the final edition could be a bit different than what appears above, but this gives you an idea…..yes sure, there will be hurdles as usual…but, while the major print publications are scaling down hard copy production and moving to the net, we have already our presence on the net and will move now towards some hard copy production in both magazine and book formats….
any of you who have followed me from Road Trips days knows that i always start with a dream/idea and do my best to make it come true…some ideas fall by the wayside, but some move forward to reality….you can go back and read right through everything that was being talked about and all that has happened…
for our Burn birthday today, i now announce a $15,000. stipend for the Emerging Photographer Fund grant for 2010 to be awarded to a worthy young photographer….details and deadlines to be announced by early January 2010…Sean Gallagher and Alejandro Chaskielberg have both been recipients in 2008 and 2009…if you track their work and their efforts you will quickly see the grant has been well placed…a jury of peers from our craft will be chosen to pick the EPF recipient 2010 from a selection of 10-20 finalists…
since this time of year is for taking stock and thanking those who have helped, i want to express my heartfelt gratitude to all of you who have made financial contributions to either Burn or to the EPF in 2009…each of you will receive a personal letter from me if you have not already…our new contribution button will now include the option for subscription, but of course all is totally voluntary and we will work just as hard for those of you who enjoy Burn as a free option as for those of you who are in a position to kindly contribute….we appreciate you all just being here…Anton and i alone cannot do any more than we are already doing with Burn and your contributions have at helped us to survive if not thrive…
we have two grant writers now working to see if we can receive significant support to not only maintain Burn but allow for payment to photographers…this has been our biggest hurdle and going for this funding is a full time job in and of itself……for us to do this is not so much a problem of sponsorship or grants which may come our way, but a requirement for a full time general manager…
the main thing is this…neither Anton nor i want to drop our life as photographers…we both have major projects going…for Burn to move forward in a significant way with regard to sponsorships and photographer commissions will require a full time full on person to manage these funds and the work flow….we both realized that if even a part of what we are asking for actually came in the door, then our lives as photographers would be over…for Burn to be more than what it is would take full on concentration from a management standpoint, not from a creative one…
the editing and curating and designing of Burn both online and in print can be managed by Anton and me with no interference to our photographic lives, but the one step forward now of managing significant funding is a full time job for someone…i am interviewing for that “someone” now….that someone is a manager, not a photographer…that someone is a biz person, not an artist…
this is of course exactly how we structure the biz side of Magnum…..and that model is a model that works….a model that most likely will include Burn as a part of the upcoming new online presence for Magnum…while Burn obviously features non-Magnum photographers from this audience , Magnum's overall interest in the development of new talent, education, and the endorsement of a wide variety of authored photography, and the rights of photographers , falls well within the arbiter role that Magnum has played in general for 62 years…my push is for Magnum to be larger than Magnum….our place in history dictates a magnanimous role …
in one year, Burn has made its place on the net…we think we have earned it and we humbly pledge to keep it that way…we are a boutique shop and we will stay a boutique shop….we have zero desire to become something we are not…we simply know we can be better…..the Lucie Award was significant only in that it was an endorsement for an audience driven online publication in a world of print and, more importantly, a bit of merit for our educational imperative….my other awards are packed in cardboard boxes in the attic…unimportant to me….the only one sitting on my mantle is this one…and it does not have my name on it…it is your award….a Burn award…..so, Happy Birthday to you!!
-david alan harvey
2013.12.18