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Pudpics

 

Working with a New Zealand artist friend exchanging photographs across the world since early 2019 has involved a number of learning points.  We started successfully working alternately on a weekly basis, mainly photographing shapes and forms, and using mobile phones.

 

Many of the photographs were strong and atmospheric and responded well to the one the week before from the opposite hemisphere.   However I noticed that we avoided photographing people, possibly through shyness, possibly because of the general focus of our other artwork   After a brief discussion on this the images changed somewhat but I feel still remained tentative.  We have not become Martin Parr overnight!

 

 

We have recently been less frequent in our exchanges and have discussed why this might be.  One may be that, being close friends, we may not feel so obliged to respond, get distracted and sometimes forget whose ‘turn’ it is.  We have considered professionalising the relationship to develop the project in some way e.g. discussing the images in more detail, or by planning an exhibition, in the UK, in NZ or online.  My friend is already more likely than myself to edit her pictures, usually  in Photoshop.   I have now bought a camera and will start to use it rather than the iPhone, which will be a big challenge to me.  Perhaps best would be to now set ourselves a new and more challenging project that has more specific and stringent parameters. 

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