Fotowork Studios

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I don't know that it would matter to anyone here, but I'm proud of the co-op we've built in little, old Abilene, Texas. I'm curious, is anyone here a member of a photo co-op? If so, tell me what your is like... what do you like best? least? wish you could change? would NEVER change?

Here's a shameless plug to our little piece of photo co-op Heaven:

http://www.reporternews.com/news/2012/mar/03/no-headline---steve_ellinger_photos/

sweet caroline

What a cool concept. I'd love to be part of something like that in Austin.

marionet

Great idea and thing to set up! I've never been part of a co-op, but I know of something that's sort of similar- Industria in NY http://industrianyc.com/ . It's a large commercial rental studio that was set up about about 20 years ago. I think there's another one in Italy. I don't know anything about it in the last 15 years but people who used it considered themselves as part of the Industria community. There was a bar with sort of salad-bar food and some talk about making it into also a kind of community arts center. When they started, they were very good at PR and happy to talk with anyone who wanted to talk; maybe they still are and might be happy to talk with you about their experience and maybe give you some ideas.

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sweet caroline wrote: »

What a cool concept. I'd love to be part of something like that in Austin.

It took us less than 5 months to get it up and going--and that's in Abilene! I think you could pull this off in Austin in a heartbeat! (I lived in Pflugerville for quite some time...)

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marionet wrote: »

Great idea and thing to set up! I've never been part of a co-op, but I know of something that's sort of similar- Industria in NY http://industrianyc.com/ . It's a large commercial rental studio that was set up about about 20 years ago. I think there's another one in Italy. I don't know anything about it in the last 15 years but people who used it considered themselves as part of the Industria community. There was a bar with sort of salad-bar food and some talk about making it into also a kind of community arts center. When they started, they were very good at PR and happy to talk with anyone who wanted to talk; maybe they still are and might be happy to talk with you about their experience and maybe give you some ideas.

Thanks for the info! Obviously, that's on a much LARGER scale than ours, but I like the concept of equipment rental and that's where we're headed, too!