PHOTO DIARY PROJECT
Introduction
For the past five years, I have become very interested in the notion, practice and reality of keeping an annual ”photo diary,” interested enough to keep one myself and begin a study of the phenomena. I was initially prompted by the extraordinary work of the UK-based visual sociologist, Elizabeth Chaplin (see: http://www.wimbledonpark.blogspot.com), keeper of a 20-year photo diary. Then I became curious about what other photo diarists had accomplished or were currently doing. A Google Search was helpful located the following: the work of DIVANOVA (see: http://divanova07.blogspot.com/2007_08_01_archive.html, continued at http://www.divanova08.blogspot.com/), David Adam Edelstein (see: http://www.davidadam.com/visualdiary/), Chris Johansen (see: http://chrisjohanesen.com/weblog/2007/01/07/the-year-in-camera-phone-photos/), New Zealand-based Lisa Sarsfield (see: http://photo-a-day-project.blogspot.com/ and http://photo-a-day-project.blogspot.com/2008/03/lomo-style-photography.html), Debi Cates (see: http://debicates.blogspot.com/), and most recently, Nic Wood in Australia (see: http://nicolewood.blogspot.com/), just to mention a few. One has to be impressed with the international distribution of these efforts.
Intention
I want to use this blog to put up the day-by-day results of a photo diary I kept between January 1 and December 31, 2006. My current motive is to understand better what I was doing – I want to know more about the kinds of explicit and implicit rules that either stimulated or controlled my photography. This included trying to figure out the boundaries of what I implicitly felt was permissible, expected, desirable or off-bounds. Somehow I had to decide what could be or could not be included for any kind of public inspection. Sounds kinda simple, but… So let’s see what there is to see.
Introduction
For the past five years, I have become very interested in the notion, practice and reality of keeping an annual ”photo diary,” interested enough to keep one myself and begin a study of the phenomena. I was initially prompted by the extraordinary work of the UK-based visual sociologist, Elizabeth Chaplin (see: http://www.wimbledonpark.blogspot.com), keeper of a 20-year photo diary. Then I became curious about what other photo diarists had accomplished or were currently doing. A Google Search was helpful located the following: the work of DIVANOVA (see: http://divanova07.blogspot.com/2007_08_01_archive.html, continued at http://www.divanova08.blogspot.com/), David Adam Edelstein (see: http://www.davidadam.com/visualdiary/), Chris Johansen (see: http://chrisjohanesen.com/weblog/2007/01/07/the-year-in-camera-phone-photos/), New Zealand-based Lisa Sarsfield (see: http://photo-a-day-project.blogspot.com/ and http://photo-a-day-project.blogspot.com/2008/03/lomo-style-photography.html), Debi Cates (see: http://debicates.blogspot.com/), and most recently, Nic Wood in Australia (see: http://nicolewood.blogspot.com/), just to mention a few. One has to be impressed with the international distribution of these efforts.
Intention
I want to use this blog to put up the day-by-day results of a photo diary I kept between January 1 and December 31, 2006. My current motive is to understand better what I was doing – I want to know more about the kinds of explicit and implicit rules that either stimulated or controlled my photography. This included trying to figure out the boundaries of what I implicitly felt was permissible, expected, desirable or off-bounds. Somehow I had to decide what could be or could not be included for any kind of public inspection. Sounds kinda simple, but… So let’s see what there is to see.
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