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What I appreciate most about these Disposable projects — apart from the images that get made — is the analogue nature of them, the way time slows down and gratification has to be delayed when you use a camera that isn’t digital.
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And don’t even get me started on how much I dig the increased likelihood of flaw occurring, courtesy of aged technology, because ooh, child, that gets me right where I live. But hey, I’ve written about all this before, in the intros to Disposable 1 and Disposable 2; you probably don’t want to hear it from me again, and I don’t want to say it all again. So I’ll say this: It’s kind of funny, kind of topsy-turvy, that the disposable camera — the three-dimensional object meant to be used and tossed — creates threedimensional objects meant to be saved and savoured. Making something and throwing away the tool with which it was made seems... counterintuitive. And probably not very environmentally friendly. But there goes that looping into digression that’s impeded this writing process all along. Grrrr. Brains.
So let’s do this: let’s celebrate the impulse to record and the impulse to collaborate. Let’s bend our eyes to these varied images, made by people in varied places, and fall into the little world each photograph offers, feel the feelings each elicits. Let’s recognize that the story we read into an image may diverge from the story the photographer was telling. Let’s celebrate the shared experience of coming together with a common goal in mind — to make images for this project or to savour these images. Finally, let’s celebrate the destination and not the just the journey, the end result, this collection of photos, because there are so many compelling images on offer here. And though the mechanism by which they were made may be disposable, the photos themselves will linger. And what’s not to love about that?
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