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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://zsaso.com, 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 (rebranded now as Zsaso) […]

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/

My 2024 calendar “Impressions Through My Lens” are now available to order. Orders will be shipped within 3-4 business days. They look amazing. 8.5″x11″, they make great holiday gifts. Only $27 USA shipping included. For oversea, it will be $22 + shipping. Contact me at richard@richardman.photo or (650) 315-7567 and we can work out the details. You can Venmo (yes, my Venmo profile picture is Amy Pond with a Hasselblad) $27 to: PayPal $27 to richard@richardman.photo Credit card: https://canusbshop.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=62&product_id=87 Check to Richard Man2625 Middlefield Rd, #685Palo Alto, CA 94306 Cash in person.

I am honored to have won the 2023 Hugo Award in the Best Fan Artist category, announced at the World Science Fiction Convention, held in Chengdu, China this year. More later.

Nominated by members of previous year and current year’s worldcons and voted on by the members of the current year’s worldcon, the Hugo Awards are science fiction’s most prestigious award. I am very honored to be a finalist in the “Best Fan Artist” category in the 2023 Hugo Awards. My work is eligible for the award mainly due to exhibitions on-site and online of my “Worldbuilders of Science Fiction and Fantasy” project, which you can see more details here: http://richardman.photo/worldbuilders-of-science-fiction-and-fantasy/ You can download the PDF of my Hugo packet here: http://richardman.photo/pub/RICHARD-MAN-HUGO-VOTERS-PACKET.pdf This is an on-going labor of love project. You can […]

Jordan is a Nebula nominated SF author, but this image was taken for the Hearts on Our Sleeves project, portraits of transgender and gender expansive community. It’s 2023, and I was hoping that the fight for human rights would be tilted toward more acceptance, but sadly, LBGTQ+ and trans people are used as boogeymen for certain people to advance their agenda. Because of the Pandemic, I hadn’t been able to find time or the subjects to photograph for this project. Hopefully this will be a good restart.