1st WWPD - Draft Press release

Hi folks!

I sharpened my pen last night and drafted a Press release for the WWPD.
This is just a draft to kick around. Make any suggestions, changes you
want to make and circulate them back to the list. We're gettin' there!

Cheers,

Guy

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Pinhole photographers create 1st Worldwide Pinhole Photography day

Pinhole photographers from around the world working through the internet
established the first World Pinhole Photography day, to take place on
April 19, 2001. Pinhole Vision and Pinhole Resource, the two largest
pinhole photography organizations based in the United States, announced
their enthusiastic support for this grass-root initiative. On that day,
pinhole photographers from all over the planet are invited to take their
pinhole box, shoot a picture and post it on the first World Pinhole
photography day web site.

Pinhole photography, one of the oldest photography technique in history,
has regained vigour as a photographic genre in the past several
decades. It now counts several thousand professional artists and
supporters around the world who are seduced by the beauty of the images
created by these lensless cameras. There is no limit to the imagination
of pinhole photographers whose equipment goes from the simple oatmeal
box with a tiny little pinhole to Volkswagen vans turned into a camera.

For more information about this event or to find out how to submit your
own pinhole photograph on April 29, please contact **Web site to be
announced**
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Received on Tue Feb 20 11:34:21 2001