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梦想、幻想、和理想化……均属空灵……几乎没有人能够掌握或保有...然而，这就是我生活的目标，而且构建了我做任何事情的基本框架...开始... 并保持我一直前行...我疯狂的想法随风飘扬...然而有时，只有有时，会出现一些...
BURN杂志今天已经一岁了...我真不敢想它马上就要两岁了！但是，我每一天都像最初那样，我也想法也如从前，结合命运，我将尽我所能保住观众驱动杂志健在...
2009年一直是令人惊喜的一年（如荣获Lucie 奖）。一个“疯狂的想法”突然出现在我的脑海中，无缘无故地，而我正在杜兰哥，科罗拉多州这里的一个桌子上写这些文字……。RODE TRIPS的构思权就是在这里诞生的，而BURN也是在去年的这一天在这里第一次出版的……。就在那个房间，我的父亲艾伦安静的死去,那天是个下雪的圣诞清晨，我们全家都聚在这里。在这个房子里，我的仍然健在的母亲玛尔雅娜与记忆谈论着未来…...乐观和满足,还有温暖……在我们的这个家庭，每天总是充满了可能…….
以上虚构的就是这种可能性……或许,不仅仅是一种可能性，而更多的是一个现实……很难复制……在未来的几周内作为收藏者一再要求的印刷杂志出版……安东·库斯特斯和我都努力做到这一点……然而，以上也只是虚构的…...最后的版本会与上面的有所不同，但是它给了我们一些灵感……可以确定的是会像往常一样有障碍……但是,当主要的出版物正在缩减硬拷贝生产并转移到网络时,我们已经在网络上,并向将一些硬拷贝生产转成杂志和书的形式迈进……。
从ROAD TRIPS 那些日子就一直跟着我的人知道我总是会产生一个梦想或主意，然后就尽自己最大的努力去实现它……一些想法会半路丢失，但是还会有一些会成为现实……你们可以回过头想想那些曾经说过的话和那些曾经发生过的事情……
在BURN生日的今天，我宣布拿出15000美元作为新兴摄影师基金授予2010年最佳青年摄影师……详情和期限在2010年1月初宣布……肖恩•加拉赫和亚历简德罗·查斯克艾尔伯格是2008年和2009年的获奖者……如果你了解他们的工作和他们的努力，你就会知道他们拿到这个奖是理所当然的……陪审团是从我们这个行业里选出来的，他们将从10到20名入围者中选出2010年新兴摄影师基金的获奖者。
每年的这个时候都是收获的时候，谢谢那些帮助过我们的人，我想对那些为BURN或2009新兴摄影师基金提供资金援助的你们表达我最衷心的感谢……你们每个人都将收到我以个人名义寄出的信件，如果您还没有收到的话……我们新的投稿按钮包括选择订阅，当然所有这些都是完全自愿的，我们会继续努力工作为那些喜欢BURN作为一个自由选择的和那些能够好心投稿的人……我们感激你们的到来……单凭安东和我是不能令BURN达到今天的成绩的，你们的投稿即使不是帮助我们繁荣也是帮助我们生存了下来。
我们有两个授权的作家正努力工作看是否能收到重大支持，不仅仅是保持BURN，而且允许支付摄影师……这是我们现在最大的难题，而且取得这个基金本身就是一个全职的工作……在我们做这个的过程中，不仅是一个赞助和授予的问题，而且是一个全职总经理的必要条件的问题……
重点是我和安东都不希望放弃摄影师那样生活……我们都有重要的项目……使BURN以一个有意义的方式前进。至于赞助和摄影师的佣金，将需要一个全职的人来管理这些基金和工作流程……我们都意识到即使我们想要的其中一部分真正来临，我们的摄影生涯都将结束……因为BURN更多的是从管理的立场来看，而不是从创新的角度……
BURN的编辑和设计无论是在网上还是印刷我和安东都能在不干涉我们的摄影生涯的情况下完成，但是现在的第一步就是需要一个全职的人来管理重要的基金……我现在正在招聘那样的人……他是一个管理者，而不是个摄影师……他只是一个商人，而不是一个艺术家……
当然，这就是我们如何正确的构造玛格南商业……而且那个模式就是它运作的模式……一个最有可能使BURN成为即将到来的玛格南新上线的一部分的模式……然而从这点看来BURN明显地吐出非玛格南摄影师的特点，
dreams, fantasies, and idealizations….all ethereal in nature….and hardly anything one can grasp or hold onto…yet, this is what i live for and form the basic building blocks for anything i have ever done….the starting point….and what always keep me going…my crazy ideas are usually just that…gone with the wind…however, sometimes and only sometimes , does something come out of it….
Burn Magazine is one year old today….i have no idea if Burn will ever be two! but, i take things one day at a time, one idea at a time, and with a combo of fate and hard work will do all i can to keep this audience driven magazine alive and well…
2009 has been a year of surprises (like the Lucie Award) and born from a “crazy idea” that popped into my head for no apparent reason right from the table where i now write here in Durango, Colorado…yes, Road Trips conceived right here, and Burn first published right here on this date last year….from the very room where my father Alan died peacefully on a snowy Christmas morning with family gathered, and in the house where my mother Maryanna now lives…a room with memories and conversations that speak of the future…of optimism and fulfillment and warmth…in our family, possibility is always the order of the day…
the dummy cover above is such a possibility….well, a bit more than a possibility, and much more of a reality….hard copy….to be published as an on-demand collectors' print magazine within the next few weeks….Anton Kusters and i are both working to make this happen….again, the above cover is dummy copy…the final edition could be a bit different than what appears above, but this gives you an idea…..yes sure, there will be hurdles as usual…but, while the major print publications are scaling down hard copy production and moving to the net, we have already our presence on the net and will move now towards some hard copy production in both magazine and book formats….
any of you who have followed me from Road Trips days knows that i always start with a dream/idea and do my best to make it come true…some ideas fall by the wayside, but some move forward to reality….you can go back and read right through everything that was being talked about and all that has happened…
for our Burn birthday today, i now announce a $15,000. stipend for the Emerging Photographer Fund grant for 2010 to be awarded to a worthy young photographer….details and deadlines to be announced by early January 2010…Sean Gallagher and Alejandro Chaskielberg have both been recipients in 2008 and 2009…if you track their work and their efforts you will quickly see the grant has been well placed…a jury of peers from our craft will be chosen to pick the EPF recipient 2010 from a selection of 10-20 finalists…
since this time of year is for taking stock and thanking those who have helped, i want to express my heartfelt gratitude to all of you who have made financial contributions to either Burn or to the EPF in 2009…each of you will receive a personal letter from me if you have not already…our new contribution button will now include the option for subscription, but of course all is totally voluntary and we will work just as hard for those of you who enjoy Burn as a free option as for those of you who are in a position to kindly contribute….we appreciate you all just being here…Anton and i alone cannot do any more than we are already doing with Burn and your contributions have at helped us to survive if not thrive…
we have two grant writers now working to see if we can receive significant support to not only maintain Burn but allow for payment to photographers…this has been our biggest hurdle and going for this funding is a full time job in and of itself……for us to do this is not so much a problem of sponsorship or grants which may come our way, but a requirement for a full time general manager…
the main thing is this…neither Anton nor i want to drop our life as photographers…we both have major projects going…for Burn to move forward in a significant way with regard to sponsorships and photographer commissions will require a full time full on person to manage these funds and the work flow….we both realized that if even a part of what we are asking for actually came in the door, then our lives as photographers would be over…for Burn to be more than what it is would take full on concentration from a management standpoint, not from a creative one…
the editing and curating and designing of Burn both online and in print can be managed by Anton and me with no interference to our photographic lives, but the one step forward now of managing significant funding is a full time job for someone…i am interviewing for that “someone” now….that someone is a manager, not a photographer…that someone is a biz person, not an artist…
this is of course exactly how we structure the biz side of Magnum…..and that model is a model that works….a model that most likely will include Burn as a part of the upcoming new online presence for Magnum…while Burn obviously features non-Magnum photographers from this audience , Magnum's overall interest in the development of new talent, education, and the endorsement of a wide variety of authored photography, and the rights of photographers , falls well within the arbiter role that Magnum has played in general for 62 years…my push is for Magnum to be larger than Magnum….our place in history dictates a magnanimous role …
in one year, Burn has made its place on the net…we think we have earned it and we humbly pledge to keep it that way…we are a boutique shop and we will stay a boutique shop….we have zero desire to become something we are not…we simply know we can be better…..the Lucie Award was significant only in that it was an endorsement for an audience driven online publication in a world of print and, more importantly, a bit of merit for our educational imperative….my other awards are packed in cardboard boxes in the attic…unimportant to me….the only one sitting on my mantle is this one…and it does not have my name on it…it is your award….a Burn award…..so, Happy Birthday to you!!
-david alan harvey
2013.12.18