New Project

For our second collaborative group project myself, Julie Wem and Sophia Keenan had been working on some ideas while still working on the previous project. However, over the Christmas holidays Sophia decided that she would like the challenge of working with other people and so we decided to see if another group would like to work with us to form one larger group. We approached Tabitha Sparey and Natalie Meer who were happy to work with us.

We had our first meeting on Wednesday and we agreed to come up with a new idea from scratch between the new group. For their last project Tabitha and Natalie photographed people in the street and asked them to write down a secret on a piece of paper. This idea of collecting something alongside photographs is something that we are all interested in and something that had played an exciting role in the project that myself, Julie and Sophia had previously worked on. I find the element of surprise at what you might get or find appealing.

We came up with the idea of doing something in a public place and then turning the camera around to photograph the people watching. This might be done in a flash mob style or by planting people in the crowd while some people take part in the actual event.

For now we are looking at research which we can then talk about together as a group when we next meet. From this we can then further develop the project.

Comments

At our public opening we had a comment book and so I thought I would take the opportunity to share some of the comments we received. I am also including some photographs of the caravan but I do not think that they do the exhibition justice as it is the overall experience of being alone in there that interested people. As a group we are planning to show the exhibition again sometime but at present we are all too busy with other work.

Dwell images