[draft] Looking for ...

Looking for ... is a non-profit collaborative project targeted at bringing together anthologies of thematic images in collaboration with amateur photographers and writers (verse, short stories, anecdotes etc). The book(s) will be published by independent publishers that allow printing-on-sale to reduce initial overhead and inventory costs.

It is the broader aim of the project to donate surplus funds (beyond publication and shipping costs) to organizations committed to supporting the cause for which a particular anthology is created through various means such as association with a certain set of NGOs working in the field of the chosen theme or creating funds for supporting people related to the theme. This will ensure that the looking for ... community at large can be aware of the use of the funds.

Since the content - photographs and texts - submitted to the project would eventually result in a book, it is required that the contributors submit content to express their interpretation of a certain theme. This theme is expected to be finalized very early in the project and should reflect or explore the spirit of the project. The themes will vary with each anthology we will try to prepare. Please refer to the section below on possible themes for the first anthology that we will proceed to prepare.

All content submitted, generated by the looking for ... community will be released under the Creative Commons (by-nc) Licence and all rights will remain with the original creators where-ever possible. The content, format and design of the book will be finalized through community vetting though in certain aspects where the community is unable to reach a common consensus the sponsors could be asked to intervene.

Certain volunteers supporting the cause will be assigned the responsibility for overseeing the design and form of the book through community consensus. At any time volunteers can submit independent designs for the community to decide if the design is better.

Creative Commons Licence Attribution Non-commercial licence
This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms. http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/meet-the-licenses

Lulu.com - Print-On-Demand Online Publisher
Print on demand (POD) is a method of producing books or other media (such as CDs and DVDs) one at a time. With print on demand, a printer produces hard copies of a book from a digital file. That way, the book is only printed when someone buys it. With Lulu, an author gives us a digital file of the book and we create a print-ready version of the file. When a customer buys that book from Lulu, our printer prints that copy (or copies) and ships it within days.

Possible Themes:

Looking for Education. The theme spans through educational institutes in India and strives to reveal the spirit of an institute in terms of its culture and academia. We invite photographs, anecdotes and stories of people, places and occasions in educational institutes all over the country as a way of celebrating the notion of education. We hope to reveal a story about education which spans beyond the classroom and the teacher-student interaction into the environment that reveals a deeper inter-connectedness of an institute with the lives of the people who spend half of their childhood and youth in them. The broader aim of the project on this theme is to donate surplus funds to organizations committed to supporting education through scholarships and child-sponsoring.

Looking for Age. The theme is a juxtaposition between "old age" and "power". It spans to look at how old age is looked at by the youth of the present generation and how the old look at themselves? It plays with the idea of change in status of an individual with growing age and how there is a shift in the balance of power between the young and the old. We invite photographs, anecdotes and stories of people, places and occasions that span the through the notions of joint families to the Old Age Homes. We hope to reveal a story where passage of time is captured in the essence of the notion of Old Age and how people perceive it? The broader aim of the project on this theme is to donate surplus funds to organizations committed to supporting Old Age Homes and other such activities.

Primary Ideas/Ideals
Theme
Online Community
Independent Publishing
Provide exposure to Amateur Photography
Non-profit
Creative Commons Licensing
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