About
Todd Walker’s photography ephemera: theory, craft, failure, success, learning. Read, enjoy, share, discard.
Gallery Hopper is about fine arts photography and visual culture. It is primarily my thoughts, opinions and raw reading material. Gallery Hopper has been featured in Forbes, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The San Francisco Examiner. It has also been included in ArtCareer.net’s “100 Must-See Art Blogs“, Columbia University’s Arts Initiative art blog list and on Joy Garnett’s “Top 20 (or So) Art Blogs“.
Gallery Hopper uses Google Adsense for advertising. If you’re interesting in advertising on Gallery Hopper, try Google’s AdWords program
If you’re thinking of starting a blog and you’re not interested in spending any time looking under the hood, I’d recommend Tumblr. I use it for my strategic-creativity blog, Designing Innovations. If you’ve got some tech chops, I’d recommend WordPress which is what I use here. I would steer clear of Moveable Type or Typepad. I used Moveable Type for several years and it just got to be too aggrevating.
Contact Information
I currently live in Northeastern Colorado, but I like to promote interesting events nationwide and sometimes internationally. Feel free to send me press releases, invites to openings, links to interesting sites. Before sending, you might want to take a look at these great press release suggestions on Art Fag City.
If you’re a photographer looking for a portfolio review, I’m really not qualified to do that, even if I’m doing a good job of faking just that on this site. I don’t have any inside connections to galleries or dealers. I don’t respond to requests to link or to exchange links. (Yes, I know. It all sounds very grumpy.) Email : todd [at] walkernewyork.com
A Note About Privacy
I use Google Ads on this site. In March 2009, Google introduced “Interest-based Ads” in this service and these types of ads may appear on this site. Google describes interest-based ads like this:
Interest-based advertising will allow advertisers to show ads based on a user’s previous interactions with them, such as visits to advertiser website and also to reach users based on their interests (e.g. “sports enthusiast”). To develop interest categories, we will recognize the types of web pages users visit throughout the Google content network. As an example, if they visit a number of sports pages, we will add them to the “sports enthusiast” interest category.
Personally, I think this is a great thing. It makes it more likely that you will see ads that are actually useful to you. But, it does mean that Google is profiling you – in a generic way – when you visit this site. For more information about interest-based ads, read Google’s blog post about it. You can also opt out of this program by visiting Google’s Ad Preferences Manager site.
