Without further ado

kekida.com has launched!

A long while ago a couple of photographer friends had the idea of starting up a small website that could feature some of their and their friends' work. Through this idea, 'kekida' was born.

As I remember it, my two friends, Dan and Kirsty approached me with these thoughts and the feasability of creating something together, something for us, our humble corner of the big internet universe. We could show what we have seen in our times and locations, scattered across the world. We could build a sense of community and these could be our stories to swap over a campfire someday. I happened to know a certain creative genius that could probably handle some of the odd whims that artists can have and make them web-chewable. Contact was made, in hopes that he would want the job. Sketches were sketched, scribbles were coupled with cross-outs and a few (37?) beer-soaked coasters later, it began to come together. The fact that three artists in very distant cultural and geographical areas could even agree on site colours (they're in the UK and AUS) was amazing. Asking someone to code our ideas into something presentable was asking a lot, but Tom was up to the task without even being sure exactly what that would mean. We had our codewrangler. Another photographer was asked later in the game to come ride with us making another corner of the world, Japan and South Korea, seem even closer. Ina liked the idea and joined up not too long before committing to hard-core photographic schooling in NYC.

We hoped, and still do, that if we built it, people would come. Maybe if we just keep swapping our stories, someone else would do so as well, in their corners of this vast world. Maybe it could inspire, maybe it could make the world a little smaller and a little more vivid.

So please visit us there. Come often! (we made the banners and lead image so they would randomly change when you came back)

We'd like to know what you think...