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July 23, 2007
The Nomadic Camera Project:
My friend Ami Ben Basat has started an amazing project where his Sony DSC-T7 is now on a journey which will take it across Israel and around the world, and in the process connecting the DSC-T7 with random photographers from around the world.
His story starts off: “This Friday I’m going to hand the camera to my friend Y. That’s where the T7’s unusual journey will begin. Y, who’ll be the camera’s new custodian, is an amateur photographer among other things. On Sunday he’ll take his own picture with the camera, along with a clip from that day’s newspaper. He’ll upload the picture to Flickr. It doesn’t matter where, provided that he does one thing: upload all images under one tag: “katze-blog.” That way, anyone who wants to see the pictures can key “katze-blog” in Flickr’s search engine and join the photo journey. That’s all.
Photo journey? Exactly so. Y isn’t going to keep that amazing camera. Instead, he’ll hand it on with the box (and this text) to a certain friend. Now the story starts over. Whoever gets the camera can keep it for a week. On Friday they have to pass it on. But before they do that, they’ll upload to Flickr (katze-blog) at least one picture of themselves with a newspaper and a date, and several others - all of them taken by this little naughty camera. They should not forget, of course, to put them under the appropriate tag so that we can all see it.
And on Friday they’ll hand this little treasure to a new user.
Imagine the gallery of photos that we will get. My dream is that the nomadic camera’s journey will last for months if not years, crossing borders and wandering in foreign lands. Like a little spaceship that tours the solar system, the T7 will document the places that it visits and commemorate the people who keep it moving on each time. So far, we—the human photographers—have been used to changing cameras. In this case, the camera changes photographers.
Yes, it’s easy to break the chain; everyone may be tempted to keep the camera for themselves. But it’ll be easy to identify them, and then we’ll contact them and ask them why. But you won’t do that to us, after all.
Bon voyage!”
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I am looking forward to viewing the photos that Ami’s project will generate. And I hope that Ami’s project captures the imagination of others who will follow in his footsteps and where some of them will be responsible for placing additional Sony DSC style cameras into the hands of random photographers.
To view Ami’s blog post announcing The Nomadic Camera Project and for the detailed instructions for the users of the camera, visit http://www.notes.co.il/benbasat/34256.asp.
Tags: Ami Ben Basat, Guy Vardi, Yaniv Golan, katze-blog, Jeff Pulver
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Posted by jeff on July 23, 2007 12:02 AM | Permalink
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Posted by: Shur at February 22, 2008 12:52 AM
Hi Jeff, this is an amazing project, thanks for bringing it to my attention.
Posted by: BritishYosef at July 24, 2007 07:20 AM
Hey! Jeff!
An amazing project and one worth watching. I'm sitting here thinking about how it would hardly be noticed without the Internet. I can't help but quote a friend, Tony D. Clark, "The whole thing changes when the world becomes your community."
Posted by: Liz Strauss at July 23, 2007 07:16 AM