I have been developing a project with Poole’s integrated care team that will see me working with people in the early stages of dementia and/or Alzheimer’s.
This project will deal with personal memories and human interaction with the land. We will explore the participants’ local landscape, using photography, drawing, writing, soundscapes, and GPS recordings. With each participant creatively recording a walk through their landscape that mixes facts with memory.
Participants will be taken through a series of workshops exploring photographic techniques and contemporary photography practices. This will enable them to document their own landscapes through documentary photography.
Participants will be asked to select a walk they regularly undertake, i.e. to a friends house, the local shop, restaurant, or pub. As well as record their journey using photography, we will ask participants to write a description of the journey and to explore their memory of the trip. We will ask that they sketch out the walk, as if they were describing the route to a friend; how do you get from A to B?
Lastly their walk will be technically recorded using a GPS recorder. All this information will be combined into a final exhibition, and possibly a catalogue and website.
The project will end with an exhibition in a local venue, celebrating the groups’ work. A website will show the ongoing work from the participants and allow a continuation of the work after the project has finished. A book will also be produced highlighting the work.
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I still really like these series of random animations made from a few still photos.
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From the Guardian.
Thousands of photographers have staged a mass protest against the ‘malicious’ use of anti-terrorism laws to stop them taking pictures in public places.
Trafalgar Square in central London was lit up by flash bulbs as part of the demonstration against photographers being unfairly targeted by police after taking photos. They are usually questioned under section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000, which allows officers to stop and search without the need for ’suspicion’ within designated areas in the UK.
More than 2,000 professional and amateur photographers took part in the protest organised by the group I’m a Photographer, Not a Terrorist!, many carrying placards bearing its name.
Onlookers were handed stop and search cards by organisers outlining their rights.
Freelance photographer and Guardian contributor Marc Vallee, who helped organise the protest with appeals on Twitter and Facebook, said he was “delighted” by the turnout.
“It’s quite obvious that professional photographers across the country are being searched because they are photographers not because they are suspicious,” he said.
“It’s a common-law right to take pictures in public places and we are here to show that.”
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Great post about sound maps – many of them are incredible.
http://www.weirdvibrations.com/2010/01/10/atlas-sound-a-typology-of-sound-maps/
http://www.weirdvibrations.com/2010/01/13/sound-maps-ii/
Both are nice articles that show the range of possibilities going on now. Sound mapping is something I have explored and continue to do.
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