Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/04/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Over the past nine weeks I have been the director of a project in which my photo capstone class at Temple University took a look at tobacco smokers here in Philadelphia, Pa. We got the idea in January after an article quoted the CDC that Philly was the number 1 large city in the nation with almost 24% of the population active tobacco smokers. We went into this project as objective as possible wanting no bias for or against smoking. Each classmate would ask their randomly selected (smokers on the street) subject: First name; Age they started smoking; Why they started smoking; How long they have been a smoker. Yesterday, Friday the 8th of April, everything came together in a large multimedia presentation. We have 960 portraits hanging from a frame in the Annenberg Hall Atrium at TU. The other 40 are placed up in the space on walls and the legs of the frame. The whole project consists of a website, printed book, online book, several short clips online and the hung gallery presentation. I'm so glad it's over. I spent far more hours in our lab this last two weeks than I spent outside of it. Worked a 30 hour day, a few 14 hour days, lots of 12 hour days, on top of my regular class schedule and a case of bronchitis that's going around campus. Now that it's done, I can finally sleep. http://www.1000phillysmokers.com/main/ If you're in the Philly area, the location of the gallery presentation is at Temple's School of Communication and Theater, Annenberg Hall on 13th and Norris Streets. The exhibit will be up for 1 week, coming down Sunday the 17th of April. It will be up at the end of April on the 29th and the weekend following as well as the week of graduation in early May. Please stop by if you're in the area and have a look around! The exhibit is open to the public but you will have to sign in at the Annenberg Hall security desk or be escorted by a Temple student. Your comments and critiques are greatly appreciated! Regards to all, Phil Forrest