Welcome to my Winter Print Exchange of 2022!
The purpose of this exchange is to build community and help facilitate introductions among photographers across the country. I also thought it would be a fun way to share your work with others, and who doesn’t love getting a nice print in the mail?
Scroll down to review rules and details! The link to enter is at the bottom of this page.
How It Will Work#
The exchange will work like a Secret Santa:
- Participants enter using the provided form.
- I will randomly assign everyone a recipient and email each participant with their recipient’s mailing address.
- Each participant chooses and prints a photo, then sends it to their assigned recipient! Feel free to include whatever personal touches you choose (an introduction, a note, some context behind the image, etc.).
Important dates:
- December 7: deadline for entering
- December 10: emailed with your recipient’s mailing address
- December 31: deadline for shipping your print to your assigned recipient
The Rules#
- By entering, you agree to send a print to someone else. This one should go without saying, but just want to be crystal clear!
- Participants must be based in the United States. This is to keep shipping costs down and to keep things a little simpler for the inaugural run. If the exchange is a success and I organize it again next year, maybe we’ll try opening it up to participants from other countries!
- Prints must be A4/letter-size or smaller. Again, this is to keep costs down.
- Your selected image must have been made locally (i.e. within a reasonable drive from your home). Part of the fun with this exchange will be seeing an image from someone else’s neck of the woods (and sharing a scene from yours!). Note that the image does not have to be a winter image! Any subject and any time of year is acceptable, so long as the image was made locally.
- Your print must be shipped to its recipient by December 31, 2022. We don’t want anyone waiting around for their print!
That’s it for rules! A couple other points to acknowledge:
- I cannot guarantee that everyone who enters will actually send a print. There are a million reasons that someone might fail to follow through. If this happens, assume positive intent and let me know so that we can work something out.
- Obviously, I have to collect some personal information to facilitate the exchange (i.e. your mailing address). I will also have to give your address to someone else so that they can send you your print. I will safeguard this information as if it were my own and delete it once the exchange is over, but I cannot make any guarantees about how that information will be handled by other participants.
- This is my first time organizing something like this. I don’t know what I don’t know. So bear with me if things don’t run perfectly smoothly this time around! :)
Sound good? Then click the button below to enter my Winter Print Exchange!
