The Online Photographer Press Release

The Online Photographer (T.O.P.) is one year old today. T.O.P. is a photography news and opinion website in blog format that is updated daily. To celebrate, T.O.P. is today posting its (first annual?) TEN BEST LIVING PHOTOGRAPHERS list. There’s also an interview with proprietor and principal author Mike Johnston about T.O.P. today on The Luminous Landscape

A few stats: There have been 849 posts since last November 28th, for an average of a little over 2.3 a day. As of yesterday, T.O.P. has attracted 2,218,890 page views from all over the world. The most popular post (far and away) was “Great Photographers on the Internet.” Two days after that was posted, the site set its 24-hour record for hits at 26,537. More than 125,000 people have viewed that page so far. Another popular post was the “Sam Memorial Dog Camera Award,” about the World’s Ugliest Camera.

Thirty-six different photographers have contributed at least one post.

Here are T.O.P.‘s Contributors in its first year, in alphabetical order:

STAN BANOS
GEORGE BARR
JOHN BATES
ALAIN BRIOT
JOHN BROWNLOW
JUAN BUHLER
PAUL BUTZI
CTEIN
DAVID EMERICK
GABI FITZ
ALBANO GARCIA
OREN GRAD
PETER GREGG
NICOLAI GROSSMAN
NICHOLAS HARTMANN
JEFF HENDERSON
MEX HERTELENDY
MIKE JOHNSTON
JOHN KENNERDELL
JOHN LEHET
GORDON MCGREGOR
ROBERT MEIER
G. DAN MITCHELL
DENNIS MOOK
KENT PHELAN
SEAN REID
JOE REIFER
STEVE ROSENBLUM
DIRK ROSLER
WILLIAM SCHNEIDER
JOHN SEXTON
EOLAKE STOBBLEHOUSE
CHANTAL STONE
KEN TANAKA
OLAF ULRICH
CARL WEESE