Do you consider yourself to be a modern day flaneur? Someone who sees interesting things in the world around them, things that other people may not notice, but that are well worthy of a second look?
Have you ever been even a little bit interested in photography?
Or in community art projects?
If you answered yes to any of the above questions then you might want to consider joining in with the
Street Photography Now Project. In one sentence: you join, each week a leading street photographer sends out an instruction by email to everyone involved that's intended to inspiring you to see, and photograph things in a fresh way, you take a photo and you add it to the group's
Flickr album.
One of the images from The Gallery's favourites
Cool idea isn't it, you get inspired to take better, or more interesting shots, and you get to share your work with other people around the world all doing the same thing.
Here's an example of one of the instructions:
Show us the aftermath – Maciej DakowiczIt's being run as a collaboration between
The Photographers' Gallery, London and the authors of the book
Street Photography Now, Stephen McLaren and Sophie Howarth. The project started in October 2010, but it's running until October 2011, and you really can get involved at any point along the way.
It's not supposed to be a competition, more of a community, with people commenting on the other images submitted in a productive way and getting dialogue going about the world's many different street scenes. However there is going to be a prize awarded for an outstanding contribution to the project, which will be £1000 worth of book vouchers and the opportunity to have your work displayed at The Photographers' Gallery.
To sign up
get in touch and you'll get your first instructions this coming Friday.
