Defunct

Cover Image: Wet-plate Collodion Photogram on black glass
  Quarter Plate (4¼“ x 3¼“)

I thought I would take just a few moments to share a little about something I have been up to these past few weeks. I don't know how many of you know about Defunct Magazine, but it is a pretty cool online publication. In their own words:

Our far-flung contributors have interpreted “defunctness” in their own often idiosyncratic ways and have brought back the dead, salvaged the past, revealed their obsessions as writers do.  We hope you’ll enjoy their fine review/essays on defunctness, as we have, and that you’ll pass along the word of this new and unique literary journal to your friends. 

I first heard of Defunct Magazine back in January after Talk of Iowa, the local NPR station, had a story about it back on January 23rd. A friend of mine from the Center for the Book, who is also an extremely talented writer and is also on the editorial board at Defunct, encouraged me to contact the Art Director (who as it turns out, I also had a class with at the Center...) to inquire about submitting images to the magazine. To make what I could easily turn into a long story maybe just a little bit shorter, after some correspondence, I was oh-so-pleased to be invited to be their first featured artist. 


I have had a great time completing this "assignment", if you will, and am very honored to have had the opportunity to contribute to a publication that is all about "defunctness" - a way of life for me! I encourage you all to read the amazing essays (and check out my images while your at it!), not just in this issue, but in back issues as well as future ones. In fact, I think it's best if you just subscribe!


Defunctly,
hf