The Most Expensive Picture – $1

The first partic­ipant pays one dollar to upload their picture on to the site to claim the title of ‘The Most Expensive Pic­ture’. It will remaim in large-scale on the home page until they are outbid by the next participant. Once out­bid, the pic­ture will be form part of the Archive, which will grow into a gallery of photographs.

So, why should you pay to upload your own Pic­ture?

“ Your pic­ture could po­tentially be seen by people all over the world. By including additional information about you along with your pic­ture, the vis­itors to TMEP could even find their way to your own website. It’s certainly not worth paying to upload your im­age if nobody will see it. That’s why we will reinvest our users’ mon­ey by showing the archive to a broad­er public. The pic­tures from the first 300 uploads will become part of a cat­a­logue that we are go­ing to pub­lish our­selves. All mon­ey col­lected by that point, will go into the production of this vol­ume. A new project with the goal of attracting public at­tention will be estab­lished for ev­ery fur­ther 300 uploads. We intend to establish a self-feed­ing platform that grows with the number of partic­ipants and can lead to var­ious me­dia, such as cat­a­logues, posters or exhi­bi­tions.”

TMEP is a smart art project, conceived and launched by Sebas­tian Stadler (Photog­ra­pher), Stefan Jan­dl (Designer) and Carlo Jörges (UX Designer).

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