MICA grad needs $8K to photograph Baltimore’s historic main streets [VIDEO]

Crowdfunding of the Week is a regular series highlighting the technology, creative and innovation crowdfunding campaigns in Baltimore that might be worth your support. This week’s project comes from Kickstarter. See other Crowdfundings of the Week here. 
In “Old Town, East Baltimore,” photographer James Singewald photographed the two blocks of the Old Town Mall in East Baltimore, an extension of his master’s thesis at the Maryland Institute College of Art.
Now Singewald wants to photograph the entireties of 10 other historic blocks in Baltimore, including Pennsylvania Avenue, Broadway and North Avenue, research their histories, and publish his photos and findings in a book called “Baltimore: A History, Block by Block.” To do that, he’s raising $8,000 via Kickstarter to purchase the Fujichrome Velvia 4×5-inch transparency film he uses to shoot all of his photographs.
Donate to the Kickstarter campaign here.
On his Kickstarter page, Singewald says his supply of Velvia film ran out in April. So far in this project — he has photographed “at least one block from each of the 10 streets” on his list since 2011 — he has used the 4×5-inch film instead of digital photography, and he’ll use a sizable chunk of the funding he collects to purchase as much Velvia film as he can before it’s discontinued (something that happened to Polaroid film in 2008).
Watch photographer James Singewald’s Kickstarter campaign video:
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