About this project
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Task
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Fees for 10 sessions
We have calculated fees adapted to the possibilities of the project. We are two professionals working in 10 different villages, 10 weekends, 10 hours each day, which causes us to charge €9 per hour.
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€ 3.600 | |
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Preproduction
We like teamwork and we prefer to have a professional with the capacity and resources to contact the different municipalities or entities, manage permits, facilities, etc.
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€ 300 | |
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Video documentation of the activity
While we are doing the portraits we cannot document everything that happens around, so we would like to have the help of a camera man, for having visual material to explain in the future what we do.
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€ 850 | |
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Communication and dissemination
We like teamwork and we prefer to have a professional with the capacity and resources to manage communication, press, website and social networks for the dissemination of the project while we visit the villages.
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€ 700 | |
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Extra Fees
This amount would compensate the initial fees and what the collected would be invested directly in developing the activity in future destinations.
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€ 1.600 |
Material
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Photographic copies for each portrayed
To print the copies that we will deliver to each portrayed. We use a Canon Selphy CP1300 thermal sublimation printer.
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€ 400 | |
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Photographic copies for the City Council
To print the copies that we will deliver to each municipality or local organization. We use a Canon Selphy CP1300 thermal sublimation printer.
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€ 400 | |
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Photographic copies for the traveling exhibition
To print the copies that will be part of the traveling exhibition. In each town the exhibition will vary by adding a selection of new portraits made. We use a Canon Selphy CP1300 thermal sublimation printer.
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€ 100 | |
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Gasoline
Taking into account our experience and the number of kilometres we will travel through Gipuzkoa, we calculate an average cost of 140€ of gasoline per month, pulling down.
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€ 420 | |
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Expenses
As we cook in our motorhome, with €100 of expenses per month for two people is more than enough.
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€ 400 | |
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Gas
We carry a refillable gas bottle with us to cook, the fridge and the hot water. Controlling consumption a little, means an expense of €10 per month.
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€ 50 | |
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Rubber stamp
To leave our mark on the rewards and in the places where we pass!
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€ 18 | |
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Carton boxes
Pack of 50 carton boxes (no box packs with fewer units) of 10x15x5 cm to deliver portraits to local organizations.
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€ 53 | |
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Professional Printer
So far we have used a small dye sublimation printer from Canon. It went well until we had the accident, since then it is not the same...
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€ 800 |
Infrastructure
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Domain + Hosting
It is necessary to buy a domain and the hosting has to be paid annually. We will take care of it the following years.
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€ 30 | |
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Online Photo Archive
The Online Photo Archive will consist on a website where you can find all the portraits we have made. It will be organized by towns and with maps for searching.
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€ 1.500 | |
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"Minimum" rewards
Estimated to cover the cost of producing rewards and sending them in the first phase of the campaign.
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€ 800 | |
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Derived costs "Minimum"
Costs derived from bank commissions (0.8%) and commission expenses from the goteo.org platform (4%) in the first phase of the campaign.
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€ 364 | |
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4G connection
As it is not always possible to connect to a free Wifi, it would be perfect to have a 4G connection to send all the portraits we are doing by email and update the photographic archive.
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€ 150 | |
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Unforeseen
An estimate of unforeseen expenses of 10% of the minimum amount. For example: if a camera breaks down, if we have to repair something of the motorhome etc.
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€ 800 | |
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Motorhome insurance
It is important (apart from mandatory) to have a good insurance that allows us to drive among the villages that are in the mountains of Gipuzkoa.
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€ 250 | |
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Translations
Translation of the website www.retratonomada.com to three languages: Euskera, Catalan and English, because the "Nomadic Portrait: Photographic Archive of Portrait" has no limits!
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€ 800 | |
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"Optimal" rewards
Estimate to cover the cost of producing rewards and sending them in the second phase of the campaign.
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€ 900 | |
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Other derived costs "Optimal"
Costs derived from bank commissions (0.8%) and commission expenses from the goteo.org platform (4%) in the second phase of the campaign.
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€ 275 | |
| Total | € 8.135 | € 15.560 |
General information
What is a portable studio?
We use the outside of the motorhome as a professional photographic set.
We open the awning, put a cloth as a background and black curtains to get a more intimate corner. Thus, we make the model feel more comfortable.
In the photo above we did not put the fabrics because of the strong wind was blowing.
What is the traveling exhibition room?
We want all activity to happen around Bitxa. On one side we will have the study and on the other we will organize the exhibition, where the inhabitants of the town we reach will be able to see the portraits that we have been doing in previous villages.
What will we do with the portraits?
- We will deliver them to each participant. A copy 10x15 cm in photographic paper and the digital format by email.
- We will deliver to the local agency a customized box with 10x15cm portraits and the digital format.
- We will make an exhibition on the side of the motorhome with the portraits we are making.
- We will create a website that will be the Photographic Archive with all the portraits organized by population.
Description of the project. Main features, strengths and differentials.
Living in the motorhome we can approach people differently.
It gives us the opportunity to learn how other people live in each place and to share our lifestyle.
Which are our goals?
The main purpose of this project is to create a photographic archive of portraits. This project will start being local, in Gipuzkoa, and will be also developed at state and European level. This photographic archive will be released through the website www.retratonomada.com, where the portraits will be organized by population.
Thus, through portraits we make in each town, we will leave a record for the local institution of who and how were the people who lived in town in 2020.
The photography is a reflection tool. The act of photographing will be a social event in the villages that will encourage sharing, observation and reflection both individually and collectively.
At the same time, the exhibition will be mounted in the outside of the Bitxa, will encourage people from different villages meet and know each other.
What will be our dynamics?
The first step will be to contact the councils and local management entities in small towns of Gipuzkoa.
Once we have established the route on the map, we will begin the “Nomad Portrait: Gipuzkoa” trip in spring 2020 visiting town by town, as traveling photographers used to do.
We will arrive in the village on Thursday, we will settle and mount the exhibition on the left side of the motorhome with the portraits we have been making.
On Saturday and Sunday, we will portray whoever wants to participate in.
It is an open and transversal activity, free for all the participants and, of course, optional.
On Monday we will prepare all the material in physical and digital format to give it to the local entities so that it is kept well. We will also update the website and send the portrait to each participant by email.
Why this is important
After living in Barcelona for fifteen years, we chose to reduce material possessions and approach minimalism and the slow movement. We wanted to stop consuming for consuming and being in a hurry. We went from living in a city to living in a small motor home.
This option helped us to get closer to people and, above all, learn from all the people we meet along the way.
This project is aimed at those who care about Basque territory and culture, photography lovers, those interested in anthropology or social studies, people who consider their lifestyle, those who travel, to the nomads, but mainly to the people who live in small places who are sometimes relegated in the background.
We want to do it because we know that each story is important, that each person is important and there is always something to learn from them. Because sharing the identity of a people is keeping memory alive forever.
Seventeen months after leaving Barcelona, they have travelled more than 10,000 km, and carried out this activity in Tolosa with the support of Box.A Arte Elkartea, Kontenporanea and Girabira Contemporary Art Festival in Irun, and at the Wereldwijf Art Festival of Heerlijkheid in Zetten, The Netherlands.
We have also been portraying interesting characters who crossed our journey, who many ended up being friends. From a small farmer from Alegia to a bison guide in Poland, a French activist / kayaker and two enterprising women (mother and daughter) in Cabo de Gata.
Last map update: August 4, 2019
About Us
We are a couple of photographers. A Basque and a Majorcan who met each other living in Barcelona 5 years ago. Each one of us has developed different aspects in Photography. Eli (www.eligarmendia.com) worked more on the artistic side of photography with personal projects and exhibitions, and Carlos (www.carlospericas.net) worked on the world of commissioning, focused on portraiture.
Latvia, 2015
Example of assembly of the study and its result.
Peio Zabala (76) from Amezketa portrayed in Arantzazu, his home.
PHOTOGRAPHIC REWARDS
These are the NUMBERED AUTHOR PHOTOGRAPHS printed in digital size 15x20cm made during the first year of the route. All them are eligible.
Images #1 and #2 are made by Carlos and #3 and #4 by Eli.
These are the AUTHOR PHOTOGRAPHS, LIMITED SHOT of 25 copies, printed in digital size 20x30cm made during the first year of the route. All them are eligible.
Images #5 and #6 are made by Carlos and #7 and #8 by Eli.
WHAT IS MATCHFUNDING?
If we have not been able to communicate what a Matchfunding is yet, here we have prepared a small video that can help you understand it.
¡Thank you!
Social commitment
Creating culture
We hope to bring photography to small municipalities or communities in Gipuzkoa through a professional photo studio and a traveling exhibition room. We want to give all participants the opportunity to have their own portrait in good quality. This portrait will be part of a photographic archive as a local and collective heritage. Thus, we claim that sharing the identity of a people is keeping memory alive forever.