Photo by Ray Potes
Some notes about submissions. We are jammed up. We cannot put out zines and books fast enough to accommodate all the photographers we want to publish. We are working on that, this post is about ways we can speed it up.
If you didn’t know, Hamburger Eyes is a printed publication. We publish a zine that comes out at irregular intervals and occasionally we publish books, once in a while we will collaborate with another publisher to make a book.
Some of you are submitting to our Instagram page. Our Instagram page is all photos from our zines and books. The current format for the zine is staple bind, 60 pages. About 6 photographers per issue and each photographer gets approx 10 pages. Submitting one photo is irrelevant. Please have seen a physical copy of our zine before submitting. It is different.
We ask for links to websites and/or social media. We bookmark these links and save them for later. We do not want attachments, pdfs, dropbox, etc. When it is go time, we will contact the photographers we like and send the proper specs with upload instructions.
If you see a photo of a cat in one of our zines or books, this isn’t a call for all the cat photos you have ever shot in your whole life. We want to see your stuff. We want to highlight your own personal visions and stories.
Our zine is black and white. It will always be black and white. We will have some side projects for color, we have in the past and have plans for it in the future. But for now, we want black and white photos.
This is a lot, I am overthinking it but also we are getting submissions that have nothing to do with what we do. Recently, it has been hectic to keep up the correspondence with all that have submitted, mailed stuff, emailed or dm’d. It’s not impossible, I could do better for sure. But this post is meant to hopefully answer a lot of questions.
Here’s some past writings on photo stuff, mostly personal opinion and commentary, but also attempts to answer questions. I plan to write on here weekly and keep the discussion flowing.
https://hamburgereyes.com/category/articles/
If you have any questions and comments or concerns, feel free to email me – info@hamburgereyes.com and I will try to answer it in blog form.