I'm really enjoying taking part in the Street Photography Now project. It's been running for five weeks and the idea is that each weeks a leading contemporary street photographer will email an instruction (i.e. a brief) to participants, who then have a week to take a photograph in response to the instruction and upload it to the FlickR group. The project will run for 52 weeks and people can join at any time and submit pictures (one per instruction) for as many of the weeks as the wish. I was too late in joining to submit for the first two weeeks, bu have pictures in for weeks three, four and five. It isn't a competition, but at the end of the project the photographer judged to have made the most outstanding contribution across the entire project will receive £1,000 worth of Thanes and Hudson books and have their work displayed on a digital 'Wall for all'.
http://streetphotographynowproject.wordpress.com/
So here are my first three entries. Working in the centre of Norwich, my emerging pattern is to head into the city centre at lunchtime and see what I can find that meets the brief, using my Sony Ericsson camera phone. The instructions are emailed out on Fridays and submissions must be in by the following Thursday.....and so far I've managed to find some suitable material, two of the three being taken in Norwich market.
Instruction #3 was to take shots in a supermarket, a public lavatory, or on public transport (this is Norwich market)
Instruection #4 was to take a shot of something displaying human ingenuity, from a normally unseen viewpoint, with no people included (this is the Novi Sad friendship bridge in Norwich - twinned with Novi Sad)
Instruction #5 was to get lost in a thicket of signs and structures (Norwich market once again)
I'm going to be making a major effort to enter as many of the remaining weeks as I can, and it wiil be interesting to see the direction in which this work takes me.
Thursday 4 November 2010
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