Cape Farewell - Infuriating image policy
There’s an amazing project called Cape Farewell, where a bunch of artists, writers, scientists, etc gather on a boat once a year and sail to the Arctic to get inspired. Their web site is a little confusing, but basically it’s an annual expedition, and they produce tons of great material each time they go.
Except it can’t be shown.
They only put out playing-card sized images of their trip. The largest image I could find on their Flickr account was this 500-pixel wide shot called Jakobshaven Icebergs.
I think the meteoric success of The Big Picture is a clear lesson that large-format photography is a huge attractor of eyeballs. It should not only be available, it should be easy to view — scrollable, not stuck in a flash interface or behind a gallery where you have to click each image individually. Cape Farewell has gone totally the wrong way on this — if you want a high res image, you have to a) be an actual journalist and b) get an account with them. I guess they don’t want coverage from blogs.
