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5 Million Views, Deserves 5 Million Thanks Yous!

APRIL 16, 2009:

It seems that good things come in sets of fives.

Or at least that’s what I’ll conjecture for the moment being that, as per Heather Champ’s recent note, flickr is not only celebrating its fifth anniversary, but I just achieved another personal flickr milestone myself—5,000,000 views.

Thus, I’d like to extend 5,000,000 thank yous to everyone for stopping by from time to time to check out my work and leave your encouraging comments.

As always, your patronage is greatly and warmly appreciated.

By the way, I recently joined the examiner as the Photography Examiner in New York City. If you're interested in keeping up to date with what is going on in photography and the art world in NYC, please subscribe to my column: www.examiner.com/x-4684-NY-Photography-Examiner

Regards,
Lorenzo



NOVEMBER 5, 2008:
The 25 Decisive Moments Retrospective held on Friday, October 24, sold 7 prints and raised almost $1000 for charity. The other 18 prints are now available for purchase here online!

Click HERE to see a slideshow of the prints on ARTslant

Click HERE to see PDF of 25 Decisive Moments Catalog

Click HERE to read "Why You Should Invest in Art."

ABOUT THE PRINTS
25 Decisive Moments showcases 25 archival prints that were created with HP Professional Satin Photo Paper using Original HP 70 Vivera pigment inks. All were printed with an HP Designjet Z3100 Wide-format (44 in) photo printer—with an estimated image permanence of 200+ years. The prints are 24” x 18” and have acid-free bevel cut matting courtesy of Manhattan framer, MH Art & Framing Gallery (www.mhartandframe.com). A selected five prints were also framed courtesy of fine art framer J. Pocker & Son (www.jpocker.com) with 1 1/2” flat matte black wood frames, 8 ply mat and glass. All prints have been signed by the artist and are the first in a limited edition of 25.

25 LESSONS I'VE LEARNED (about photography) JUST RELEASED! October 24, 2008, New York City: Husband, father, and corporate employee— Lorenzo's life revolved around home, work, and his daily commute from the suburbs to the city.

Then, one day in the Spring of 2005, he found himself staying at The Little Church in midtown Manhattan in the wake of a marital separation. Living in virtual isolation for three months, he had a rare chance to re-examine his life.

Quite unexpectedly, he found himself wandering around the city to take photographs, a passion he had let slide in the years of pursuing a career and starting a family. During his nightly sojourns through the streets of New York City, he was reminded of some important life lessons—lessons too easily forgotten in the blur of everyday existence.

Now one of the premier up-and-coming photographers on the streets of New York City, 25 Lessons I've Learned (about photography) chronicles Lorenzo’s journey into the amazing world of digital photography and how it helped him to reconnect with the world around him, and to live a life that is truer to one’s self.

Considered an "Internet photography sensation" by Time Out New York and a "Flickr star" by Rob Walker, Consumed columnist, for New York Times Magazine, in 2008, Lorenzo was also chosen to be the HP Be Brilliant Featured Artist
(www.hp.com/go/bebrilliant).

Click HERE to see a very cool preview of the book!




A Few Pleasant Surprises
September 10, 2008, New York City:


These last couple of days have been rife with pleasant surprises.

First, I learned that Hispanic MPR.com recently published a review of my book 25 Lessons. Editor Elena del Valle writes, “In the book, Lorenzo shares his secret to the art of living and the simple rules of photography. He meant for the book to be inspirational and poetic; and to spark readers’ creativity, and reawaken their passion for life.”

Click here to read the complete article:
New Yorker Illustrates Life Learning in Photography Book.

A special thanks to Elena for your kind words.

Secondly, I woke up the other morning to find a pleasant and big surprise, for upon checking the flickr stats I found that viewership had reached a new height with 9,879 views overnight, more than doubling the daily average of the last couple of months.

Thank you to everyone that made that possible.

Finally, Paul Giguere informed me today that he posted a discussion we had a few weeks ago on his site, thoughtsonphotography.com. You can hear that podcast interview HERE.

Paul introduces our talk by saying, “One of the reasons I so enjoyed interviewing Lorenzo is that he has managed to make photography such an integral part of his life in such a way that I think his personal life and his photography are inseparable at this point. He has truly managed to integrate it into a higher order of thinking and living, and I think he personifies the photographic life…”

Thank you Paul.

25! A Celebration, October 25!

25! A Celebration: October 25, 2008, New York City:

On October 20, the Lucie Awards (the Oscars of Photogrpahy) will be held at the Lincoln Center in Manhattan. And from October 23 to October 25, PDN PhotoPlus will host its 25th Expo and Conference in New York City, with over 27,000 photography enthusiasts and professionals attending from all over the world.

In sum, there will be a lot avid photogs and emissaries from the field of photography who will be in New York City for this important week.

On the evening of Saturday, October 25, the last day of the expo, we plan to take advantage of this important confluence of people with a celebration called 25!

Click HERE for details...



July 7, 2008, San Jose, CA:
Photo Share Podcast, Part II


Part II of the interview I had on PhotoPodcast.com was just posted over this holiday weekend. I encourage you to listen to what I have to say about my work and the art and business of photography.

During my conversation with Bill and Sandra, we talk about many things including:

1. What my college girlfriend taught me about photography in the dark room...
2. How I ruined my first (35mm) camera
3. What constitutes "commercial" photography, esp. on flickr?
4. What is the difference between erotica vs. pornography?
5. Why I decided to terminate my book contract and self-publish 25 Lessons instead.

TO LISTEN TO PART II OF THE PODCAST CLICK HERE.

Part 2 starts at 8:20 in the podcast and ends at about 33:00, making it almost 25 minutes long.

Thanks for listening!

July 1, 2008, New York City:



A special thanks to Paul Giguere who produces a great podcast show called thoughtsonphotography.com (exploring what it means to live a photographic life).

Paul recently mentioned my first book, 25 Lessons: The Art of Living, with along with classic texts about the art of photography including:
Beauty in Photography: Essays in Defense of Traditional Values by Robert Adams
The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers by Henri Cartier-Bresson
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography by Roland Barthes
On Photography by Susan Sontag
Light Matters by Vicki Goldberg

You can listen to his podcast here: Essays About the Photographic Life




Currently, I am one of the featured photographers at Look at Life, an online arts community that has been around since 2005.

Look At Life is hosting an amazing new contest C2NY (City Culture New York), along with Metro New York Newspaper and the City Parks Foundation of New York. C2NY was created to incorporate the art and photography of NYC residents into the Central Park SummerStage concert series.

At ten concerts, ten winners' visual art will be displayed in a booth focused on highlighting the local spirit and culture of our city, providing valuable exposure for the artists involved in order to give concert-goers a glimpse of how New York sees New York.

Click HERE to view my portfolios @ Look at Life.

June 30, 2008, New York City:



My portfolio was featured at Art Bistro this morning. Art Bistro is a great artists' community online featuring networking, career advice and opportunities, educational videos and articles and a slew of information to help you start or enhance your aspirations as an artist. Check it out! www.artbistro.com

Published Photos and Other News


My First Podcast Interview! June 9, 2008, New York City:
My First Podcast Interview!

O-oh, now I'm in trouble...

Recently I was interviewed about my work and my book, 25 Lessons: The Art of Living, by a popular photography e-zine, photosharepodcast.com., which just posted the podcast on their site.

Please take a moment to listen by clicking on the following link: Interview with Lorenzo!

Some of the many subjects we discuss include:

What I Love About New York City and Why it is My Studio
The Art of Marketing Art
The Wonderful Thing About Flickr...
The Story of How I Became A NYC Street Photographer
How My Greatest Passions Enable Me to Appreciate and Love Life to its Fullest
How I Came to Write The Best Selling Book, 25 Lessons: The Art of Living
Giving It Up: Why, sometimes, you've to give it all away for free...

The interview begins at 12:00 minutes....and lasts about 17 minutes long.

Many thanks to Bill and Sandra for taking it easy on me and ultimately producing a great interview. I don't think I incriminated my self too much...

Please also check out my latest book: StreetWise:How to be a Great Photographer, Lessons Learned on the Streets of New York City


June 16, 2008, New York City:
Please EXPOSE Me

I've thrown in my own bid for the Exposure Photography Competition, which one might say is the American Idol contest for photography. Well, maybe not...

www.artistswanted.org/lorenzodom


May 27, 2008, New York City, 9:55 PM, EST:

4 Million Views! Thank You!

We reached another milestone tonight when the flickr-meter posted new stats and the view count on my photos fell into 4 million.

Hence, I am feeling an overwhelming sentiment of gratitude to everyone who has ever taken the time to view my work and would like to say thank you at least four million times for all the positive feedback, encouragement and inspiration. With utter and great sincerity, thank you.

To celebrate, I’ve published two new books.

StreetWise: How to be a Great Photographer, Lessons Learned on the Streets of New York City.

Streetwise is a compendium of the original 25 Lessons I've Learned (about Photography) that served as the inspiration for the bestseller 25 Lessons: The Art of Living, as well as 25 More Lessons (I've Learned) and 25 Points of Creativity, to complete the 25 Lessons Trilogy.

And Sentimintos, a short collection of 40 photographs, 6 of them taken at a black-tie affair at the Waldorf~Astoria in New York City on February 6, 2006, and 34 more intoxicated introspective self portraits.

You can review all my published books, including 25 Lessons: The Art of Living and Be Yourself at my bookstore on blurb:

www.blurb.com/user/store/lorenzodom


April 2, 2008, New York City:
25 Lessons: The Art of Living was just released today and it is already an Instant International Best Seller.

Last year, Blurb printed close to 90,000 unique titles and hundreds of thousands of people from around the world have downloaded Blurb Booksmart in order to enable bookmaking. In addition, blurb currently prints and delivers thousands of books a week.

25 Lessons: The Art of Living has been a monumental journey, a labor of love and nothing less than an extraordinary experience for me. I spent the last three years creating the book: taking all the 500+ photos that are in the book, writing the story and the incredible lessons I've learned from the experience of becoming a New York City street photographer, creating the layout and design for the book, and even writing the code for the website, www.25Lessons.com, which I also translated into 10 different languages.

Thank you, thank you, thank you! to all my friends on flickr that have supported me on this project.

Please spread the word: www.25Lessons.com

Just Published! 25 Lessons: The Art of Living

February 2008:

HP Be Brilliant! Featured Artist
I have been selected by HP (Hewlett-Packard) to be the emerging artist to launch a national advertising campaign on February 1.

The initiative will include a special dedicated website that will co-exist alongside existing advertising for HP’s What Do You Have To Say? campaign, which features the likes of Gwen Stefani and the inventor of the snowboard, Jake Burton. (I highly recommend watching the inspiring story How Burton Became Burton online.)

The new campaign will also soon feature banner ads that will be run on the Internet.

To view the site click on the following link:
www.hp.com/go/bebrilliant

HP Featured Artist: Be Brilliant Home Page





Thursday, February 27, 2008, New York City: Esto Es Mi Dios
Revista Güey featured and translated into Spanish one of my stories and photos today in the launch of its inaugural issue. Check it out at www.revistaguey.com on pages 39-40.

See the original photo and read “This is My God” in English HERE.

These will also be featured in my forthcoming book, 25 Lessons: The Art of Living. Go to 25Lessons.com for more information.




buroeastmag.com has also asked me to be a feature artist on in their upcoming February 2008 issue.

November 2007:

I've launched a new blog, The Art of Living
(http://aofl.blogspot.com/), where I am going to archive and post all new musings, verse, reflections on life and other random thoughts. Please visit and spread the word!

October 2007:

The Art of Murketing
A special thanks to Rob Walker, "Consumed" columnist for the New York Times Magazine, who recently posted my photo, Larger Than Life to his new website murketing.com.

Inherently , from my monthly column, Expressions, on RainTiger.com.

September 2007

Book Update
Due to "production delays" in the UK, my publisher, Cyan Books, recently informed me that publication of 25 Lessons: The Art of Living will now be postponed for a couple of months, and will not come out in October as originally planned. I apologize to all those who have consistently given me support in this endeavor and hope to update you with an actual book launch (and party!) date as soon as possible.

As of September 1, 2007, over 266 known blogs, websites and print publications have cited, posted or published over 500 (400 different) lorenzodom photos over the last two years.

Freedom To Be, from my monthly column, Expressions, on RainTiger.com.

August 27, 2007: Thanks to everyone who has ever marked one of my photos as a “favorite,” today the 5,000th photo was added to the pool of favorites.

A Million Thanks To You!

August 1, 2007, New York City: A Million Thanks
Today we, that is you and I, reached the top of flickr mountain. For ‘round midnight, flickr (headquarters) standard time (FST) my photostream was viewed for the millionth time. Thus, I would love to thank everyone that made this personal milestone here at flickr possible. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Also in August: The One with the Golden Tress, from my monthly column, Expressions, on RainTiger.com.

For sample list of cited fotos click HERE.

June 2007:
Some time ago I was asked by the Executive Director of RainTiger.com, Steve A. Williams, to take over the Expressions section in the Art Studio. I am elated to announce that my first contribution to this regular column was posted this month and that I am looking forward to contributing to this great artist’s site on a regular basis. Thank you very much Steve for this opportunity to express myself.

Click on the following to view my inaugural piece: Waking in the Obliquity of The Ecliptic

May 2007:
Nerve Media, recently chose one of my photos to compliment its current editorial for its new online magazine Babble.

Waking in the Obliquity of the Ecliptic, amongst a number of other of my photos, was chosen as part of the inaugural permanent collection of the Museum of Flickr Fine Art.

April 2007:
One of my photos, We Are The Shadow People 019, will be published in the book Corso Base di Evangelizzazione, to be published in Italy.

March 2007:
After being featured as the
the spotlight artist for RainTiger.com
in November, and I have subsequently been asked to provide a monthly column.

February, 2007:
My photos were published in
The Renascent: Volume 3, Photography. Click HERE for details and HERE to purchase.

November 2006
I'm ecstatic to announce that been I've selected to be the Spotlight Artist on Rain.Tiger, A Commune for Creative Spirits.

July 2006
My photos are listed in the Top Ten Flickr All Time Most Popular list according to flickstr.com. I am honored to be listed along with great photographers like rebekka, *Ivan*, awfulsara, solea and fubuki. Thanks, gracias, merci, obrigado and domo arigato to everyone who made that possible.

My “cut-out” technique for many of my photos is currently featured as part of a story in the July issue of Germany’s premier photography magazine, foto magazin.

I was invited to be one of the four artists, and the only photographer, in the Eye Candy art show in Park Slope, Brooklyn at Cocoa Bar. The show runs from June 30 until July 31, 2006. Click HERE to see the set on display.

Selections from my Fashions for Dummies set is currently featured set for Look Magazine's July issue. This photo will be used for the cover.

June 2006:
June began with my photo making the cover of the Pride Guide issue of L Magazine.

Check it out online www.thelmagazine.com/. The magazine is available for free at most street corners in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

One of my photos is scheduled to be published in the June issue of Germany's premier print photo magazine fotoMAGAZIN.

Coming Soon! my photos will be featured in a book feauring 18 photographers entitled The Renascent, Volume 3

April 2006:
One of my photos will be included in the April 23 launch of the online Art Zine the gnostic magazine.

One of my futbol fotos was published in print for the German music periodical, mds-partner journal , which is published four times a year.

March 2006:
One of my photos glosses The Cover of the March Issue of Look Magazine.

Click on the cover’s photo to see a set of my photos featured in this month’s issue. Or click HERE to got directly to the set.

February 2006:

David Bogart Painting inspired by lorenzo foto. The Foto: The Linear Sunrise

January 2006:

Another Close Call was published in a Special Volume of pict*re magazine focusing on night photography: Check it Out!

We Are Spirits in a Material World at Farmhouse Magazine.

Subways Dreams and Waiting at 33rd Street Station photo series in the Hello Stranger subway reader, page 6.

2005:
Introducing lorenzoblog! (www.lorenzoblog.com)

A collection of my photos was recently in the December 2005 edition of pology as part of a feature on my New York shots and I took part in the NYC Exposition which took place October 14 - November 26, 2005.

Please use lorenzodom1@gmail.com if you would like to correspond with me or have a request. Thanks!

Click HERE if you would like to receive e-mail updates whenever new lorenzodom photos are published.

You can now view my photos as thumbnails via flickrleech, check it out!

Forthcoming! 25 Lessons: The Art of Living, to be published by Cyan Books.

Click here to read the original 25 lessons that inspired the book!

My work and profiles are collected at the following sites:
lorenzoblog.com
lorenzodom.com
lorenzo@lightstalkers.com
lorenzo@myspace
lorenzo@friendster
View Lorenzo Dominguez's profile on LinkedIn
lorenzo@facebook (search for "lorenzo dominguez")
the lost man chronicles
100 New York Stories (High)
25 Points of Creativity
25 More Lessons (I've Learned)

View my DNA at bighugelabs.com


Groups that I created and administer and I invite you to join:

moon
self
genius
soledad
dummy
stained glass
mother and child
metros (around the world
cemetery stone
minimalmonochromaticism
on the road again
Eccentric, Eclectic, and Electric NYC

A Little History of How I Got Started

People inspire me! Life inspires me! NYC inspires me! The night and the streets and love and my family and friends all inspire me! And maybe most importantly, I inspire me, for I am an ardent believer in self-determination.


In March 2005 I began to take photos more seriously and now I have 12,000+ fotos on flickr. I won the Excellence in Urban Photography, have been cited by over 100 blogs and sites, 2,222 have been "favorited" (a sample of 50 of those alone have been viewed 14,853 and marked as favorites 882 times, as of October 3, 2005), I've written extensively on my experience (25 Lessons I've Learned, More Lessons, and Creativity) and those sites have been visited by more than 15,000 people over the last couple of months. Albeit I have no formal training, I shoot everyday and feel the years of being a creative writer have enabled me to be open to the entire sensory experience requisite of being able to take great pictures.

Otherwise...in a glorious 37 or 38 years (i forget) of living I have pitched to and fro, undulated slow, tossed and turned restlessly, tirelessly and blissfully, and made utterly sane and madly vane love with life. this is what i love about the digital photography revolution - that we all now are able to capture those exquisite moments and curves and shadows and lines and illusions that make life so incredibly amazing.

Currently, I live in NYC (part time) and Bloomfield, NJ (the other part of time). I have two boys, Enzo (6) and Nicky (4) whom i love and cherish, and who graciously tolerate my incessant documentation of their ever-evolving childhood.

In the Spring of 2005 I completed a project in which dozens of fellow photographers from all over the world helped me cull through the collection of 11,000 photos I have taken since March of this year to determine what are my “100 Best.” Ultimately, we decided on five different books. Take a look:

City People
CityScapes
Cut-Outs (of City People)
Objectivity
The Boys


I was born and raised in sunny Northern California (San Jose, Silicon Valley), this explains a lot of things...I also lived in LA (UCLA '89, BA in international cultural studies) and moved to NYC for good in 1992 to matriculate in the graduate School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University ('94). I also completed graduate studies for the Masters in Political Science program at San Jose State University in 1991.

I worked with much of the diplomatic community in NYC for four years after graduating. Subsequently, I worked for a few years with executives in the telecommunications and information technology industries to develop business conferences. Currently, I am Director of Marketing and Communications at a Fortune 100 financial services company in Manhattan.

The rich experience I have had in New York City over the last 13 years has given me a deeply intuitive sense of what makes this city (and life) great. I believe this understanding and passion are reflected in both my writing and photography. Ideally, I envision being able to present my work in these two areas together, one complementing the other.

Thank you!
Lorenzo

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NYC (part time) and bloomfield, NJ (the other part of time). born and raised in sunny northern california (san jose, silicon valley), which explains a lot of things...i also lived in LA (UCLA '89) and moved to NYC for good in 1992 (Columbia, SIPA, '94)

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A bit more about lorenzodom...

Hometown: san jose, california
Occupation: director of marketing and communications, wannabe writer, photographer, spontaneous, often happy, an eccentric genius (if only in my own mind)
Interests: light, taste, touch, euphony, existential experience, iridescence, life as poetry, solitude, reflection, introspection, action, words, muses, music, raisins, raisons d'etre, darkness, dark chocolate, laughter, enlightenment, verse, a reversal of fortune.
Favorite Movies, Stars & Directors: ted turner, nikola tesla, t.e. lawrence, richard feynman, leonardo da vinci, sir ernest henry shackleton, clint eastwood, pablo picasso
Favorite Music & Artists: googoosh, les nubians, paris combo, frank sinatra, charles aznavour, vicente y alejandro fernandez, javier solis, many of the cafe del mar records, angelique kidju, norah-norah jones, william shatner (has been), will smith, dr. dre, luis miguel, amalia rodrigues, lila downs, pepe aguilar, nat king cole, fatboy slim, dean martin, bobby darin, etta james, led zepplin, omara portuondo, issac stern, vladimir horowitz, elvis (presley), wax poetic, groove armada, anne-sophie mutter, and so forth