"Saving Detroit one image at a time" was printed in my local paper today.

I very nice article about this project was printed in the Hersham Acorn papers today. my understanding is that the article will be seen in ten towns in my area. I am hoping that the exposure will help to inspire backers as the funding drive on Kickstarter is not
going as well as hoped. I have several interviews lined up with Detroit area artists and community leaders and I am hoping to get out there in the next few weeks. As soon as the article is available online I will post a link.

Link to my Kickstarter page

Please visit my Kickstarter.com project page to lend your support to "Detroit in Ruins".
Prints can be purchased at my Smugmug page and all proceeds will go toward the funding of the documentary.
See the link on the sidebar.



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I was offered a RED package today for use on the doc. when I am in Detroit

I received a very generous offer from a local rental house today that is willing to lend me a RED package and send me out with a DIT the next time I am in Detroit shooting. I considered the offer but ultimately decided that the RED was just to cumbersome and far to expensive looking to be running around the slums of Detroit with. I thanked them profusely and assured them that I am still a big fan of the RED but that this particular project calls for as small a footprint as possible while shooting. Me, an assistant and a DSLR are the perfect tools for this job. All I really am in need of are a few faster lenses. I'd love to get my hands on an L series prime or two. I actually emailed a representative at Canon today to see if I could barter a deal for credit on the doc. I'll keep you all posted as this develops.

Today I was interviewed by a local paper about the Documentary

So its no secret that the fund raising effort on Kickstarter.com isn't moving as quickly or as well as I had hoped. I am very appreciative to those who have made pledges, but at this rate I will not meet my goal. In leu of that I reached out to the local paper affiliate and they kindly agreed to have an article written about the project. I met with the reporter this morning. Hopefully the article will be published before the kickstarter project has ended, but in either case any press is good press and I have high hopes that the article will reap some benefits for the project. The reporter was a very nice woman who is from the Detroit area and had a genuine passion and understanding of the situation in Detroit. I will post the article when published.

Results of the 1D Mark lV tests I did in NYC

Here is a file of some of the stuff I shot with the 1D Mark lV in NYC. I'm told Canon will be using some of it at their booth at NAB this week. Being that I won't be in Las Vegas I'll have to trust that they are representing my work in a good light.
here is the link: http://przypek.com/Time-lapse.html

Can't you just see clouds racing by, above the ruins of the Packard Plant, or Michigan Central Station, it really is the makings of some exciting photography. Lets hope I can pull the funding together to make it a reality.

28 days left on my Kickstarter project

One day down and one backer gained. Not a bad first day but not great either. Realistically I need a little more than two backers a day at 100 apiece in order to reach my goal of 6000 dollars. The way Kickstarter works is that if you don't reach your goal you don't get any funds even if I raise 5999 dollars at the end of 29 days..... no funding.
There is still plenty of time. If anyone is out there listening; even a dollar helps. This is a story which needs to be told again and again until something is done about the irresponsible abandonment of an entire city. A bonafide disaster in our own backyard and nobody is screaming about it from the rooftops! 6000 dollars isn't much to produce a documentary, a photo exhibit and a book of fine art photos but it is a challenge I am willing to undertake. All I am asking of you is the pledge of a few dollars to help me help others. Plus there are some cool rewards to be had. Who wouldn't want a cool HDR print of an industrial ruin on par with the great ruins of of the world.

Today I applied for funding at kickstarter.com

And so it begins. I just learned of a fantastic website called kickstarter.com. The sole purpose of kickstarter is to connect artists with investors. There is a reward policy that they use to help inspire investors. My plan is to offer signed prints in exchange for donations. I just applied today. I will post the progress of this endeavor here.