What is PhotoAnthill and What is Our First Project?

Our original teaser image from Bolyartsi - a place we will be talking about.

Hello, everybody,

PhotoAnthill is an account that is intended to run projects with the help of the community, employing the social potential of photography and journalistic work. While building and developing other communities along the way.

It was a gift from @fundition and is currently owned and managed by me, Manol Donchev, the person behind the account @manoldonchev.

PhotoAnthill is also a website I started almost four years ago (ashamed to say that - the site has been in stasis for too long).

Well, it has done some job (and I with it).

Some events covered:

Some workshops behind us:

It is time to revive it and redefine it. It was always intended to be a stage and a school for starting photographers and in part it will be so. But it is to be upgraded and translated. Which will take some time and work. In the end I expect to make it suitable for both Bulgarian and English audience. Web design is an issue but not a priority yet. Ideas come first. Working on them. Content comes next. Looks... just have to wait for a little bit.

And the content that matters now is the section of our (I say our here, because I will be working with a team and with communities) first major project.

Which is about a Village in Bulgaria called Bolyartsi. The project will have its own space both on the block chain and here:
http://photoanthill.com/portfolio/project-bolyartsi/

I have already made an introduction to it in a post on my personal account:
https://steemit.com/archisteem/@manoldonchev/stray-cats-of-bolyartsi-village-a-story-within-a-story

The village was chosen by a person who has already provided help and insight. We do not live there. We visit. The special thing about it is that it is a place not special, but common. It is the same as many other villages across Bulgaria and the rest of the world.

But now the time has come to define goals and launch it for real through fundition.io when ready. I expect it to be a matter of a day or two.

While the @photoanthill account will interact with this community with its full current and future potential, it will currently be dedicated first of all to the Bolyartsi Village project.

Which will include:

Documentaries and photo albums with journalistic materials;
Photo exhibitions;
Starting a local village photo club and empowering people from the village to continue our work...

Other social activities

And when that one can run on its own, the time will come to move to Stage Two. A bit early for that.

We will be with you soon enough.

Take care and keep creating the good world!

Yours,

Manol Donchev from PhotoAnthill