Join the Friends of Just Looking
Hello, it's Menka here, the founder of Just Looking. 👋🏼
Just Looking is a community project. We make things with and for the community. One way to support us is financially. If you choose to become a paying member of Friends of Just Looking, you support me, the team, our work, and others in the community. You make things possible!
Help us keep things free and inclusive
Each newsletter we send, every free photowalk we host, and everything we create on Instagram takes many days of work. It all adds up. But our ethos is to give away as many things as possible for free and make our offering as inclusive as possible.
This approach is also known as unlocking the commons:
“Fans support the person and the work. But it’s not a transaction, a fee for service. It’s a contribution that benefits everyone. Free-riders aren’t just welcome; free-riding is the point.”
Sure, we could charge for more of our things. But when someone gets something useful and valuable for free, they experience it as a gift. Research shows that when someone receives a gift - or even witnesses an act of generosity between strangers - they become more generous, too. In other words, every gift sparks a chain of generosity, and that's what we're all about – the invisible ripples.
What do you get by joining?
Mostly just the satisfaction of supporting this project, and officially becoming a patron saint of slowness and curiosity! Plus, there are a few extras:
- 50% discount code for our shop
- Access to our Friends-only reading list
- Annual behind-the-scene update
- Help us support like-minded projects
- Love and gratitude for your support
Support if you can, cancel anytime.
We get it. Circumstances change all the time. After joining you will receive a link to a member portal where you can easily change the details of your subscription or cancel it. Don't worry; you won't need to create another "account". If you have any other questions, please email me.