Have Your Photographs Published On The NYT.

Tuesday, November 8 2011

Have Your Photographs Published On The NYT.

Jim Estrin, the co-editor of the NYT’s Lens blog, is organizing a visual time capsule. And he wants to see your work.

He sent along an email earlier today, asking that I round up a few readers who would be willing to submit recently made images, or images to be made in the next several days, to a special project. So let’s hand over this blog for a moment to Jim:

On behalf of The New York Times Lens blog, I would like to invite you to join us in a project called Picturing 7 Billion.

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/07/update-building-a-visual-time-capsule/

The United Nations Population Fund estimates that the world’s 7 billionth person was born on Oct. 31, 2011. Babies born this week come into a world that is changing rapidly. While it’s hard to envision what it’ll be like when they are adults, we can show them what the world is like today.

This is where you come in. We are asking for your help in creating a photographic time capsule for these children. Before you take your picture, think about what you want them to know – 20 years from today – about the world into which they were born.

Make a photograph that documents how we live today and send it to us. We are looking for photographs taken between Oct. 31 and Nov. 13th, not from your archive. We’ll publish a large selection on Lens and present prints to the families of the children Lynsey Addario photographed on Oct. 31.

Use this form to submit your picture.

http://submit.nytimes.com/7billion

Please send us only one. Include your full name, the place and time the photo was made and a little bit about the image. Photos should be no larger than five megabytes, ideally at least 1,000 pixels wide. In keeping with photojournalistic standards, please keep Photoshop to a minimum.

I look forward to seeing your photos.

Sincerely,
James Estrin
Lens Blog Co--Editor
estrin@nytimes.com

NOTE TO READERS OF THE GUN: A few of you will be getting direct emails, Facebook or Twitter messages from me tonight, because Jim mentioned that he hopes for submissions from Afghanistan, too. Are you in Afghanistan now? Please consider submitting. Remember, the deadline is only a few days away.

ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHS

Two photographs separated by 72 years. Top: “The Wishing Tree,” 1937. By Aaron Siskind. From this Lens post. Bottom: A soldier wounded by a falling boulder in the Korangal Valley, Afghanistan, 2009. By Tyler Hicks. From this Lens post. Let’s see your photograph on Lens next.