In November 2009 I traveled to Stockholm to visit a friend. Since Stockholm in November is a place with limited sunlight and no absence of excuses to plunge into depression we decided we needed a project. One of the ideas behind the project was to explore how, given fairly tight constraints, we differ in our perceptions or views of the same place.
So without further ado here is the structure;
One map of a city or part of a city/location/town/village etc.
One photographer takes the map, wanders round the city or area demarcated by that map and takes pictures, being careful to mark on the map the LOCATION, DIRECTION and TIME which the picture was taken.
The photographer publishes or distributes the map to other photographer(s) in the project’s team.
The photographer(s) then take the map and follow it by matching the locations, directions and times as closely as possible.
Note, there are no restrictions in terms of type of camera, type of lens, length of exposure or indeed anything do with photographing the location apart from LOCATION, DIRECTION and TIME. One member could use an 8×10 view camera, another a camera phone and another a holga. Or everyone could use digital SLR’s etc.. In our project we used a 5×4 view camera and a 35mm camera.
It is important that no photographer in the team looks at any of the photographs of the other members, before they have taken the photos themselves
Once all photographers in the team have followed the map and taken the photographs they must decide together on a common size for printing the images. They can be printed in any way you please, but they must be the same size.
Make sufficient copies of each image-location to distribute to each participating photographer.
Then each photographer creates a combination of each participating photograph for each location, So if there are 5 photographers and 10 locations each photographer will start with 50 original images and end up with 10 original combinations. These combinations must be stuck together in such a way that you can lift individual layers to view others
Together 5 photographers would have 50 original combinations.
Publish the map and images on this blog
Sebastian
