5. Dominick Lewis
Founder / Owner of Photodom
“I never felt welcomed,” says Dominick, 26,
recalling clerks at a popular New York megastore that would
rush him along, or assume he couldn’t a
ff
ord a certain lens, or
express surprise by his knowledge level.
“It’s important that image makers have a connection to
the place they purchase their equipment,” he wrote from
his GoFundMe campaign last summer.
16. Instant Cameras / Toy Cameras
Camera as a tool for education
Camera classes for kids
17. “We must give Black image-makers and Brooklyn’s remaining Black
neighborhoods the ability to control our own stories, instill
knowledge, and educate the next generation of storytellers,
historians, and artists.”
Dominick Lewis
Founder / Owner of Photodom
21. Understanding of photographer’s community in NYC
Zine
Services
Products
Supplies
Street
Space
Film god
Dalis Espinal
Dominick Lewis
Jean Andre
Cisco
Community
Dave
26. A shared community-lab to co-design and manufacturer new products
Possible future
Crowdfunding, Platform Co-op
27. Source: eMarketer/Goldman Sachs, Transparency Market Research , Cognitive Market Research
Make
fi
lm
Photography
Accesible
Photographers as makers
Photography
as Education
How the community can grow
Shared R&D and Manufacturing
Community-driven product development
Events
New Products
& Services
Communities
Film camera market
$312M by 2029
Kids Activity Box Market
$5.7B by 2031
Creator economy market
$480B by 2027
28. 1990s to 2000s 2000-2010 2010-2023 2023 —
Mainstream Film & Camera Digital Camera iPhone & Instagram AI
Disruptive Tech Digital Camera iPhone & Instagram
AI Photography,
Generative Art
???
Sub-cultural market - - Instant & Toy cam
Human to Human?
(e.g. Education, Making)
The origin
Film Photography ( Leica / Hasselblad / Polaroid )
Culture: Street-inspired, Creativity, Experimentation
Future
Sub-cultural market could be a
large enough, pro
fi
table and fun business!
29. The project has just begun and continues…
Please join me in you’re interested!