About Digital Imagers

About

the

Digital Imagers

The Digital Imagers group is comprised of Digital Photographers and Imaging Artists of a variety of skill levels, interested in the digital arts and dedicated to their evolution.

Statement of Purpose:

The Digital Imagers membership recognizes the vital role of Digital Photography and Digital Art Making in the ongoing evolution of the Digital Arts, Sciences and Technologies, and asserts the following as our purpose:

The pursuit of excellence in the Digital Imaging Arts and Sciences.
The teaching and exchange of knowledge of the Digital Imaging Arts and Sciences, both among members and the general community.
The sharing of new tools and techniques for creation of Digital and Photographic imaging.
The examination of new techniques and tools for use in the Digital Darkroom, in Digital Printmaking, and in other Digital Artforms.
The recognition that Digital Imaging rests upon a long tradition of image making, and in a 175 year old tradition of Photographic image making, that recognizes that its techniques and tools have evolved from Photography and the longer tradition of the Arts, and that traditional Photography, Digital Photography and the longer tradition of Artistic Imagemaking are not separate but interdependant.
The encouragement and expansion of members creative skills in the Photographic Arts and Sciences, and in Digital Art making.
To increase historical awareness of the place of the new Digital Arts in the ongoing historical evolution of the Photographic Arts and Sciences, and Imagemaking.