The Need To Send

The Need To Send

Kickstarter campaign has finished!

Project description

The most unusual subject for climbing photography today is the indoor recreational climber. Not all climbers have the possibility or ability to climb in epic landscapes or the hardest problems in the world, which tends to be the motive for climbing photography.

That does not mean recreational climbers have any less will or motivation to send the problem in front of them. All climbers are struggling at the peak of their own mental and physical abilities. This is rarely captured. All climbers are different but once on the wall, we are all the same. We share the same urge, the need to send.

Over 10 months, 154 climbers were photographed. The photographs in this book were not staged and no instructions were given to the climbers. What is presented is the daily fascinating struggle of the recreational indoor climber.

The photo book

The photo book is 25×20 cm (10×8 in) hardcover, 136 pages long, and includes 200+ photos of the 154 amazing recreational climbers featured in the project.

The photographs take up the majority of the pages in the book and are accompanied with names of the climbers, with exceptions for anonymous climbers.

The pages are printed on matte, 100# (148 GSM) paper with an image wrap cover.

Posters

All photos from the book are available as posters.

The posters have a design with white border and the project name and climber number printed under the photo. The black frame is only for visual reference but black framing is recommended.

Full list of photos below.

Crowd funded!

The printing of the book and posters is crowd funded through Kickstarter.

Crowd funding means that funding needed to create or produce a product is funded by individuals that are interested in it. This means that products that are in demand gets funded and I I don't have to put out money and risk not getting my products sold if there is no real interest. Also, I think it's a fun and cool way of funding this project!

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