Kickstarter Recovery

I’m proud to say I successfully completed my Kickstarter campaign on May 14th with 169 backers, reaching 150% of my fundraising goal. I’m less proud to say it took me almost 6 weeks to write this post. I didn’t think running a campaign like that would take so much out of me, but it did. I am so incredibly humbled and grateful by the outpouring of love and support I received, and the excitement for the book. I cannot wait to make this a reality.

I had so many questions along the way about the campaign and book details, and the most common question I kept getting asked was: why did you have to raise all the money? Doesn’t the publisher do that?

Actually, no. When working with photo book publishers, photographers already have to have most of their funding in place. That’s right, photo book publishers rarely front the funding costs needed to design, edit, and print on quality paper, bind the books, and ship and distribute them. It’s often on the photographer to do so. Hence the need to raise thousands of dollars. Now that I’ve done that, I am in talks with publishers and I will be sharing more official news on that in the coming weeks.

So, this is a belated thank you for believing in me and supporting this book. More news soon <3

Coney Island, 2021