Daily Pictures
On view June 12 - July 26, 2009.
Each day between April 16 and May 16, 2009, twenty-six photographers shot and selected one photograph per day. These photos are displayed together in grids and long lines, inviting comparisons between the photographers’ experiences. Photography always involves memory. The subjects of the photographs make us wonder at why the photographers would choose to remember what they choose to remember about any given day. For example, why do wild mushroom’s warrant so much of one photographers memory or why aren’t there more pictures of mothers on mother’s day? Why do car odometers show up multiple times and who are all these unnamed people in the pictures anyway?
The outcome of this project has a sort of get-to-know-you feel to it, but the limitations of the project (only one image per day) and the limitations of the photographic medium itself, seem to create more questions than answers. This project begs the question, “Can one picture represent one individual’s experience of one entire day?”
This project was completed as part of the Sojourn Visual Arts photography class Seeing Made New.
