Yearly Archives: 2024

I’m not just an artist, I’m also a tech geek and entrepreneur. Since April 2024, I and a small team of webapp engineers have been working on https://imagecraft.art, a platform for galleries and social media. It’s free to sign up, and you can create galleries easily by tagging your images with keywords. Best of all, you can point a personal domain, e.g. https://richardmanphoto.com to the site, and it will maintain your brand. You can customize the site with your own profile pages, banner, logo, and much more. Here’s an example running three different “personalities”: the ImageCraft.ART generic site, richardmanphoto.com as […]

ImageCraft.ART is Live! Hello! Less than 2 months ago, I got this crazy idea of creating a gallery webapp for artists to allow them to dynamically feature and sell their work while also avoiding having it scraped and co-opted by Gen AI. Many iterations of ideas, design, and coding later, the basic app is now working quite well. We have tweaked the messaging many times, and currently describe it as “an online gallery and social media site for artists by artist, connecting artists with their fans, and focusing on copyright protection and sales”. There are a few major parts to […]

It’s Hugo nomination time again (ballots must be submitted by March 9th 2024). If you are a WSFS member of the Chengdu 2023 Worldcon (this also includes EVERYONE who voted in the DC site selection) or the Glasgow 2024 Worldcon, you are eligible to nominate. The information is available from the Glasgow 2024 Worldcon website. In 2023, I became the first photographer to win a Hugo in the Best Fan Artist category. I am also the only second Hong Konger to have won a Hugo (* both of these claims are “as far as I know” *), but you should […]

Piezography B&W printing provides the highest quality inkjet prints possible, rivaling and even surpassing the best silver gelatin prints. We now offer Piezography print services at a very affordable cost. Best of all, you can get a sample 4×5″ print for just $5 (US shipping only) to see for yourself. For more information, please see https://richardman.photo/bw-and-color-fine-art-printing-service/