The purpose of this page is to provide both collectors and member photographers (we hope very much to blur the line between collector and photographer) with a continuously updated list of URLs for the web sites of participating Photo-Secession II photographers.

Check back frequently for updates. Member's web sites will be listed in the chronological order in which they joined Photo-Secession II. (Hey, I have to get at least a tiny perk out of this!) But as and if the list becomes more unwieldy, more sophisitcated search and sort options will be added.

Listings are on the right hand side of this web page and will show the photographer's name, web address and type of work.

No warranty is made for the artistic quality of the work, only that participating members have pledged to offer their work at affordable prices and in certain formats, using archival materials. Anyone who pledges to abide by the few simple rules of the Photo-Secession II is accepted as a member. It is left entirely up to the collector to decide if the work of a specific photographer has artistic merit.

However, member photographers do have to meet a few requirements specifically designed to weed out those who perhaps are not quite ready to offer their work for sale as art:

1. Members must have their own privately owned web site. Membership in a public photo site that allows anyone to post their photographs along with many other photographers does not qualify. This is to ensure the photographer is serious about his/her work, but in no way prohibits participation in those other web sites as long as there is no connection from this web site or from the photographer's listed web site to one of the aforementioned public sites. Your photographs must be available for viewing and purchasing directly on the web site to which your URL connects from here.

2. Member web sites must be devoted strictly to their fine art photography and directly related matters such as books, articles, show announcements, etc. It has become fashionable of late for wedding photographers and commercial photographers to lay claim to being 'artists' in order to impress their clients. There is nothing wrong with for-hire photography, but membership in Photo-Secession II must not be used as subterfuge to promote commercial work. Likewise, promotions that cheapen the photographer's work such as coffee mugs, key chains and refrigerator magnets will not be accepted on the web sites to which this site links.

3. Members must work in projects, that is to say, a collector must be able to see cohesive related groups of work, such as (god forbid) Yosemite, on the member's web site. General categories such as landscape, animal photos, etc., customarily used by hobbyists, will not be accepted. Random work is of course not forbidden but the photographer must be able to show that he/she is primarily focused on specific, cohesive, recognizable projects.

4. Member photographers must put a prominently displayed link to this web site on the entrance page to their web sites and promote their membership in Photo-Secession II. Members are also encouraged, but not required, to provide their visitors with a list of the member web sites whose work they admire.

5. Members promise to eschew the practice of selling limited editions as these serve no other purpose than to create artificial scarcity and place profits from print sales in the hands of speculators rather than in the hands of the original photographer. Instead, members will raise prices on individual prints and folios as demand for those items rises, thereby keeping profits for themselves instead of speculators.

The only fair way to approach this is that I will accept all photographers who agree to comply with the basic requirements, even if I personally hate their work. In case of doubt I will always decide in favor of the photographer. I have no desire to put myself in a position of policing other photographers web sites or judging their work. Fortunately, this whole idea is more or less self-policing because potential collectors who come here can read the rules just as readily as the photographers and will see for themselves whether or not members are abiding by them. If I get complaints that someone is not complying, only then will I check the web site and issue a warning, if need be, that the photographer is not in compliance. Since there is nothing to be gained and no real point in joining Photo-Secession II unless a photographer intends to comply, I doubt there will ever be any significant problems. Photo-Secession II is not about regimenting photographers or controlling tastes (though oddly, the first Photo-Secession was), it is about creating a mutually beneficial market for collectors and photographers rather than a feeding ground for speculators.

As no public announcement for Photo-Secession II has yet been made, there are no members thus far except for the founder, me, David Kachel.