Hello and Welcome on the !

Here is a short story about this starting group.
. once was a group of portrait photography, and also a good of good reputation. It started eight year ago and had thousands of members and watchers. But that group started to fade years ago and only few admins kept its ship afloat even without founder and co-founders. We had a hard job because we had to maintain the group with almost no rights to change anything. After a long time I had to admit that I was left alone as admin, that made the things impossible: the submissions needed two (for some folders even three) votes to get in and everything has been expired. The group died despite my efforts to find other admins, "wake up" the old ones and even getting contact to the founder who was my compartriot. All my efforts were in vain.

So I thought it is just not right. Most of portrait groups I knew were dead, too, and the old one still got several submissions. To make it worse, we received many drawings and traditional media portraits despite that we were a photography-only group. So I decided to start this new one, called FaceGroup, and try to serve those who still need group appearance and want to benefit.

I am heavily counting on You and I am heavily depending on You. Starting a group and making it known is always a hard job. But if you help it is possible. If you were member of the portrait-to-us you may find a new home here. If your drawings or paintings, or even digital media works and manips were rejected there, you may find a new place here for your art. Please feel free to join and submit your best!

Meanwhile this is not an accept-all group but I plan to focus on high quality works. You may be a beginner and find your way in, but you may be a pro and got rejected if your works are not your best. Call it elitism if you want, but I have the goal:  I wish the members will be proud of being part of it. The standards will be about the same as in the old group (but I will try to keep it more constant and reliable).

What can you do here?

Show your works, and got featured. You can give this a try, too, even though you won' lose anything with joining. 

• If you're not a member, you may test whether your work will meet our expectations: you can submit 1 deviation per month. This is for the start-up period that is planned to end after a year.
• If you're not a member, but you're a member of an affiliate group, you can submit 1 images per week. We would like to support our affiliates, too, and co-operate with them for our mutual benefit.
• If you're a member, you will be able to submit 3 works per day to help to build up an attractive and representative gallery. This is only for the start-up period and it will be changed if necessary.