NEW YORK—At the helm of one-woman photoblog iheartphotograph.com, Laurel Ptak, 32, has turned a personal endeavor into a tiny force in the photo world. By posting three photographers’ works per day since the blog’s conception a year ago, Ptak has unintentionally drawn notice from amateurs who submit their pictures, photo editors who trawl her space to find new contributors to their publications, and now Higher Pictures, a small Upper East Side gallery opened by former Magnum Photo exec Kim Bourus and Daniel Silverstein this spring.

Ptak sat down with ARTINFO to talk about curating an exhibition of photos for the gallery— “www.iheartphotograph.com/,” open through Dec. 8— culled from contributors to her blog.

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