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Image Assignment - Remember When?
Submitted by RobNevin 03/08/05 1:48 PM GMT
An image has the power to take its viewer back in time, or tell a story to the viewer. Take, for example, an image of a help-wanted sign taped to the door of a downtown shop, or a pair of worn out Keds with a broken shoelace. Or perhaps a bike with training wheels lying beside it. It could be a saddle, or a volleyball left on a sandy beach. Perhaps a hockey stick stuck in a snowbank, or a speeding ticket.
And when a viewer pauses to reflect on an image, their mind creates the accompanying story using bits of their own life experiences. The image becomes a wordless essay, written uniquely in the minds of each viewer.
And thus the reason for the assignment.
Create an image intended to invoke such stories in the thoughts of the viewer. With 5,000 people traveling through the Caedes site daily.. imagine all of the stories one single image could trigger. Entitle the image using the following naming convention, and encourage them to leave a few words of their own story in the Comments area.
Entitle your image like so: "Remember when?" [your title]" For example:
Remember when? First speeding ticket
Remember when? Worn out Keds
Remember when? The training wheels came off
Entitling them in this way will help identify images that are
specifically posted for this assignment, even though they will still be posted into their normal categories.
Remember, this is not a contest; there will be no adjudication, no prize, no ribbons. The reward is just a communion of viewership and the richness of the comments that the pictures will draw.
If you are interested in participating, let's start posting them on
March 15, the ides of March. That should give folks some time to collect their ideas and snap some shots. Collaboration is encouraged!
A new dimension. A new challenge. A wordless essay. Have fun!
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I'm just the poster on their behalf.
Thanks to Caedes too for supporting the direction and allowing the assignment to be presented as News.
•••• Remember; hold off your posts until March 15. Because this is not a contest, there is not deadline. Just like the person who cuts your hair, the stories are never-ending! Have fun ••••
Great idea. A challenge, and one that I can see above many of us are eager to get our lenses into. Count me in too.
Romane
Damn... I'm searching in my stock of images... Not easy, man... ;-)
•••• ::fotobob •••• bjb •••• June •••• ::arneh •••• Quiet ••••
They so rock.
JuneBug
One could find an object in their home that, when scanned and presented as an image, can trigger the response called for in the assignment "...An image has the power to take its viewer back in time, or tell a story to the viewer...." Now be nice people, we don't want any images that you would normally reserve for the office photocopier if used as a chair. *wink*
Thank you PrettyFae for opening up the idea even wider.
••••Other fine examples••••
MrXwild has another fine example of a non-photographic work entitled:
Remember When You could Relax
and from Nathan (nmsmith) please see his posting entitled:
Remember when grampa took you horseback riding?
and from Robert(fotobob) please see his posting entitled:
Remember when - Bear.
I better get my scanner ready then!
Thanks for using my work as an example...I feel very flattered :) and everyone - of corse - is welcome to my gallery...I hope it will be of use to you all :P
fotobob
I'll look foward to your newly cracked eggs!
Sincerely,
Rob
I propose a new assignment. I would like to see a black and white assignment. Caedes.net rarely gives us the opportunity to show off our B&W stuff, and a chance to do something like "Black and White - People on the Move" would be an interesting way for us to develop another skill. The assignment could be for us to capture people doing things or something like that. Black and White is a fascinating medium, and I for one would like to see what our creative genii could come up with.
It's important that people not just fish stuff out of their collections, but rather go out and creat something new.
Dj