Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/07/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Intriguing project Kyle. Reinforces my theory that at some point in the near future every moment of every day will be photographed - I just didn't realise that evil genius Cassidy would be controlling it all. What do you make of the pictures? What did the project tell you about the world, or about people? Or photography? Cheers, Paul. ******* Paul Hardy Carter www.theconstanteye.com <<< NEW BOOK! www.paulhardycarter.com twitter: twitter.com/paulhardycarter Skype: paulhardycarter +44 (0)20 3239 9573 ******* On 7 Jul 2009, at 19:24, Kyle Cassidy wrote: > My new photography project: > > http://inthehive.org > > On June 11th I was looking at some photographs by [insert name of a > famous photographer who I won't name but you can probably figure > out] thinking Did he really mean to take this photo? Does this guy's > camera go off at random? and I started wondering what the photos > would be like if someone just carried around a camera that captured > an image at random. And of course, I then thought why not find out? > I put up a cryptic call for volunteers and got 23 people I'd never > met from all across the U.S. and Canada who agreed to wear cameras > around their necks for two days. Over the weekend of June 13th and > 14th I sent eleven SMS text messages at random times to everybody in > the group and they pressed the shutter buttons on their camera, > photographing whatever happened to be in front of them at that moment. > > I "took" 266 photographs that way, 83 of which are in the gallery. > > No Leica's were harmed during the photography. > > Kc > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information