Friday, October 1, 2010

About the Anonymous Photography Collaboration Project

A Collaboration Between Langley Fine Arts School and a Professional Photographic Artists Collective

Project Description

Photographers view the world differently at various stages in their career, and at each stage, individuals view the world differently than their peers. Often collaboration between artists is a mutual joining of shared ideas, creating an intentional dialogue between the artists’ individual visions. The aim of The Anonymous Photography Collaboration Project is to create a blind collaboration, layering experience and vision. To do this, the project will be executed in three phases:

In the Student Collaboration Phase, a group of 27 students from Langley Fine Arts School, British Columbia, Canada will shoot one roll of film each, exploring the world through their individual perspectives. The students will then hand the film to another student. This student will then take the film and expose it again. These students will not know what was originally on the film until after development. Students will process the film and choose one image which best depicts the collaborative process to turn into a final print.

The Student/Professional Collaboration Phase will join professional photographers with student counter-parts in the same process used in the Student Collaboration phase. The students will not know their professional collaborators so as to allow their vision to be layered onto the professional’s unobstructed. Students will process the film and choose one image to turn into a final print.

* Finally, the Student/Audience Collaboration Phase asks the audience to become collaborators with the students of LFAS. Rolls of pre-exposed film will be presented to the audience to take home and expose on their own.

* This portion of the project is aimed at the exhibition aspect of the project. If you wish to participate in the exhibition, please contact me at ken@kenkuphotography.ca (alternatively kc1002@gmail.com) and we can arrange for you to submit your own rolls of film to be provided to the audience members.

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