Issue #6
Without Lenses

July 23, 2008 Editor's Notes

by Erin Malone

Published on 07/23/2008

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This issue marks a year of bringing Without Lenses to you. Over the last year, I have talked to so many wonderful and interesting photographers. The personal stories and work provide inspiration and ideas for me and I hope for you, dear readers, as well. I am eager to bring more of your work to this wonderful community and welcome story ideas, as well as proposals for showcasing your work. Don’t be shy; let me know about your work and what drives you to make pinhole or other lensless work.

In May/June I attended the 2nd f295 symposium in Pittsburgh and met so many wonderful alternative and lensless photographers. It was extremely energizing and inspiring. I am in the middle of interviewing Jesseca Ferguson and will be bringing you her images and thoughts on her work in the next issue. The symposium was even better this year than last and Tom Persinger has great plans for a diverse set of offerings for 2009.

This summer has been full of excitement for me personally. I quit my job at the giant corporation—primarily to ease the commute time (2+ hours a day) and to give myself more time for making lensless images, and will be starting a new consulting firm in August.

To top it all off, I had my work featured on KQED’s Quest program this week. The video clip of my piece is published here. I am always eager to tell people about the wonderful qualities of being a pinhole and zoneplate photographer.

Here’s to a productive and image filled summer for you all. Enjoy issue #5.

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Erin Malone

Erin Malone, Principal at Tangible ux, has over 20 years of experience leading design teams and developing web and software applications, social experiences and system-wide solutions. Prior to Tangible, she was at Yahoo! where she led the Platform User Experience Design team and was responsible for building the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library and for providing design expertise to the popular YUI (Yahoo! User Interface Library). Additionally, she led the redesign of the Yahoo! Developer Network, oversaw the redesign of Yahoo!’s Registration system, designed cross-network social solutions, developed the ux team’s Intranet and other cross-company initiatives.

Before Yahoo!, she was a Design Director at AOL leading a range of community and personalization initiatives; Creative Director at AltaVista responsible for the AV Live portal and community tools and Chief Information Architect for Zip2 which produced a custom content management system for local city guides, entertainment guides, maps and yellow pages, including New York Today for the NYTimes.

She was the founding editor-in-chief of Boxes and Arrows, a role she served for 5 years. She is the author of several articles on interaction design history and design management and a founding member of the IA Institute. Erin has a BFA in Communication Design from East Carolina University (1986), Greenville NC and an MFA in Information Design from the Rochester Institute of Technology (1994), Rochester NY.

She is the author of the book Designing Social Interfaces with Christian Crumlish for O’Reilly Media and its related site designingsocialinterfaces.com.