After being design director and then editor-in-chief at JPG magazine, you can be sure that when Laura Brunow Miner comes up with a new project, it will be something special.
Pictory tells the story behind the photo, putting it into context.
Photo credits are rare and captions usually garbled, so I find myself often wondering: Who made this? What does it mean? The forces of the Internet can sometimes turn good work into confusing shrapnel.
– Laura Brunow Miner
Contributors to Pictory (and everyone is welcome) send in their best photo on a theme, with a caption and the story that goes with it. The Pictory editors choose the best 20 to 40 submissions, then publish them on the website.
It’s a simple concept, but done with a lot of polish. The photos are big (at least 1000 pixels across or high), and the stories that accompany them brings their meaning to the original photographer home. Laura has managed to bring her skills at producing a print magazine to the web – viewing the photographs and stories in a theme is definitely an experience to savour, rather than to be flicked through in haste.
Have you submitted to Pictory, or even got published? Tell us about it!
I came across this site the other day on my way around the net and it looks like a really cool idea. I didn't know who was behind it and how it had come into being, so thanks for sharing that with us here. Maybe we should submit a pictory!