Unfortunately, it seems that the photography community of dA is being neglected. It has hit an all-time low!

What happened?! When I joined dA in 2004, I was wide-eyed with wonder because I found such good artists whose works left me speechless. But the photography community here has stagnated since then. When I browse through dA now I see that it's the same people that get all the attention, their works following a certain pattern. It's either beautiful landscapes with saturated colors, self-portraits with unrealistically pore-less skin, and the ever-so-popular macro shots of eyes, water droplets and other biological organisms. The new stuff are the old stuff. It's nice and pretty at first but then after years of the same thing, it just gets sickening.

I'm not writing because I don't like the work of the popular artists nor am I a bitter artist in dire need of attention. I am doing this because I would like some fresh blood to spill on the dA front page. I want to see new artists, new work, fresh ideas!

Recently, I have been browsing hoping to find a good photo DD (Daily Deviation), but all I found were stock-photos and a pattern of nude photography. I have nothing against these genres, but there is so much more out there than just stock & nude photographs. This brings me back to my main point, the photography community here is being neglected and that's really unfortunate for us photographers.

I remember that other photographers have tried to stop this from happening. Some have even been banned for expressing their opinions in due to lack of diplomacy. That's too bad because dA lost talented artists to other art communities and what's worse is that the lost talent is not being replenished! The community continues to stagnate.

I am trying to do my share to improve this community. When I was a subscriber, I featured unknown artists (other much popular artists have been doing this, and kudos to them) and sent out DD suggestions. Now, I have been sending DD suggestions and am currently working on a dA Chat-Group for photographers to gain attention in this community by exhibiting their work to a larger audience of fellow photographers and art appreciators, PhotoExhibit with ~imarcano. But, it's not easy. The DD suggestions have remained unread by the gallery directors and PhotoExhibit is just days old, still trying to put itself together and gather supporters. We would highly appreciate if you decide to support our group.



Please, do what you can to improve the photography community in this site.

With that, I would like to leave you with a few thumbs from people who have been working hard to put together PhotoExhibit.



by ~imarcano



by *martybell