cabin porn
I used to love cabins before Hipsters made them fashionable. So it’s no surprise to come across Cabin Porn on the Internet. Cabin Porn (www.cabinporn.com) is a photolog of shots taken in cabins. In recent years it’s become an Internet phenomenon, especially amongst modern town dwellers. The word “porn” describes the site well. In addition to attracting people who are looking for something else from behind the beautiful picutre of a cabin, a sofa from which to dream about solitude and nature, and safe from accidents, snakes and ticks, in short, safe from the risks of real experience. Safe sex. One of the founders of Vimeo, Zach Klein, started the blog in 2009. Klein founded a community in a forest in New York State: some of the members live in wood cabins, others spend the weekends there. Cabin Porn is a blog put together in collaboration: people from all over the world send photos to feed it. I’m one of them. I spent the 2013 Easter break in the Duero region, where I took some photos of the underground cellars they keep their wine in; I then sent them to Cabin Porn. They published them there shortly afterwards. Klein and his friends say they are waiting to publish a further 13,000 readers’ photos. Given their success, they published a book in September 2015. Since then it’s appeared on the New York Times Best-sellers List and at the top of the Amazon sales list (in its respective book category).
They’ve published one of my photos in the book. Unfortunately, I’ve never been to the place they mention at the foot of the photo: Häjerdalenen, Sweden. I took the photo close to the Basque Country, in the town of Palenzuela (Castile).
I think Cabin Porn’s a ne example of collaborative work in the Internet age. A simple idea which shows people’s need to hide. It’s become an Internet phenomenon and, nally, a physical object, a book.
Cabin Porn’s Zach Klein is rich. I’m not. And, even so, like many others, I help him for free to make money with his book. The photographers who have sent work don’t get paid. We we get is a copy of the large, beautiful book. A book I usually take with me when I go to the mountains too. When it comes down to it, I don’t want to become one of those lumbersexuals who masturbate in the sittingroom at home to cabin porn, to kitsch fantasies of wood and solitude. Cabin Porn’s also on Instagram: www.instagram.com/ cabinporn. And, as if that weren’t enough, you can see contributions to #cabinporn at www.instagram.com/ explore/tags/cabinporn/
They’ve published one of my photos in the book. Unfortunately, I’ve never been to the place they mention at the foot of the photo: Häjerdalenen, Sweden. I took the photo close to the Basque Country, in the town of Palenzuela (Castile).
I think Cabin Porn’s a ne example of collaborative work in the Internet age. A simple idea which shows people’s need to hide. It’s become an Internet phenomenon and, nally, a physical object, a book.
Cabin Porn’s Zach Klein is rich. I’m not. And, even so, like many others, I help him for free to make money with his book. The photographers who have sent work don’t get paid. We we get is a copy of the large, beautiful book. A book I usually take with me when I go to the mountains too. When it comes down to it, I don’t want to become one of those lumbersexuals who masturbate in the sittingroom at home to cabin porn, to kitsch fantasies of wood and solitude. Cabin Porn’s also on Instagram: www.instagram.com/ cabinporn. And, as if that weren’t enough, you can see contributions to #cabinporn at www.instagram.com/ explore/tags/cabinporn/
