a good day today
got a message from sweden with another “yes please can i join, sounds interesting”. i was near there a couple of weeks ago on a residency and was momentarily tempted to go and capture it myself, but if you set project rules then i reckoned one should stick to them.
i spent the morning double checking whats what/where and trying to find photographers in italy and austria. this evening they both came back with “yes please that sounds interesting” too. so now im just down to portugal, think i have someone but they are unsure about hunting down a PO Box. feeling relieved that this bit is nearly done as all the films should really be sent for processing before november – just incase. i think alot of peolpe are gonna use up film they’ve had for a while and there will be a rush or even a stampede up to the end of december.
oooh it’s getting exciting.
switzerland & new jersey films are in the post to the processing lab, might be a couple of weeks before they get to me tho.
now anticipating what they look like. is the film too expred that nowt comes out? although i am ok with odd colouring due to age/storage of film. main concern is ive asked people to either have the PO Box in the centre of the shot, or if it is a building – the front door, or if it is a demolished building – where you think the front door would have been – in the centre. mainly because this is the address where the processing packet would have arrived. Plus it would, hopefully make a cohersive and interesting group of images.
I suppose thats the problem/advantage with this sort of project. ive given it over to others, whether it comes back how ive instructed is part of it.
ive started exploring the possibility of turning the project into a book, not got very far yet so if anyone has any advice etc please let me know. id be rather grateful.
so far ive sent off 11 rolls of kodachrome and have not got any back. so today i have sent “have you got it” emails out. its all ticking along, i hope. quite a few are away on holiday so there are more films to send in a couple of weeks and ive yet to hear back from sweden and austria, i think i will wait a couple more weeks before i search flickr for replacement photographers. no luck yet on finding galleries tho – i must keep trying and crossing fingers.
