viz. http://75.co.za/notes/203
We still need to do it.
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Persona Photography
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13h10,
12th
July
2011
I came accross this project on the web named "Persona" Photography, and i think it quite cool!
i immediately thought, it would be kinda of awesome to do something like this someday here on 75. Maybe the week of the exhibition -- i mean like ... We have a lot of personas here, and I think it would be (kinda) cool just to get a little up close and personal with something of this nature.
Have a look.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jasontravis/sets/72157603258446753/with/4538055556/
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yizzi25
voila!!!
i must have missed it ;)
let's brainstorm on how to go about doing it, yeah?
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lebogang nkoane
I think we have to take it outside of ourselves, by that, I mean: each 'grapher has to ask somebody else, a stranger preferably, to photograph what they have in their bags.
then part of the story would be to include who that person was (if they were willing to give that information) and how easy and/or difficult the task was.
My thoughts — what you think?
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Mphela
funny I was looking at something similar today poster it up on google+, this was a blog thought #idig
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yizzi25
@ Lebogang yeah, that sounds good.
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lebogang nkoane
@yizzi awesome — I'll plug it end by end o' the week — I think we will need a month at the least, in my case, to man-up and approach a stranger.
@King-K (LOL, your name sounds like kin-ky): yeah, I've seen that, pretty cool and scary project to engage in.
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Mphela
Awesomeness can't wait...*buys "tic tac's"*
And yes @lebogang it's a mix of this girl actually calling me "kin-ky" other people calling me "king" and my second name "Kagisho" = King-K
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Uno
Love the idea, I think we should do it, been wanting to for a long time but...
I don't know about asking someone else, might take a long time between choosing a person and actually convincing someone to do it, maybe even more than a month... we should still do it but it could be an ongoing project not only once off, where we could have a permanent section for uploading those photos.
As a theme that could run as soon as possible it would be interesting for us to photograph our own bags and/or items we carry, on a given day, without prior announcement, so that no one can be prepared and clean up and/or add up something. It could be announced in the morning and wherever you are you must make a photo and upload it, let's say before 2pm...what do you guys think?
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lebogang nkoane
@Uno, that would still be tricky — once the mind knows something is going to be done, it could still prepare.
I do think, if we put a month to it — somewhere along the line, a stranger might not be a stranger to the 'grapher but the rest of us; it could be the same people you engage with, at minimal, everyday. I also think if we engage with 'strangers' it sorts of adds more value: from the real world to virtual; almost as if the photographs are connected to something more meaningful type thing?
Okay, I might be rambling here — dam this existentialist crisis!
Your thoughts?
But, I do think themes should be in a separate place — I've scheduled a new 75 building to start in September.
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Uno
@ Lebogang: Yes, I agree but I still think we should try to do a 75 grapher's items series, it's up to each one of us to deal with it in a honest or dishonest way. I think it's also good training before we approach a stranger to put ourselvels through the discomfort and experience the difficulties that might arise in certain situations. It will also be good to experiment with composition so that we don't mess up good opportunities if they come our way. I also think we should try as much as possible to ask strangers, it poses more of a challenge and I also think is more meaningful (with or without existential crisis : )
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lebogang nkoane
Ah, I hear you — okay, we start with ourselves; then through that we hope we be prepared to engage strangers.
Aiit then!
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