Have started a nice little photo project today – 100 Strangers. The idea is to approach 100 strangers (not all at once you understand!), and speak to them. In the course of the conversation, you must ask them their name, get to know a bit abbout them, and ask them if they mind you taking their photo. if not, then you snap away and add it to the flickr group “100 Strangers”.
Talking of Flickr, I’ve now got a permanent presence in said repository of photo stuffs, which you can get to at http://www.flickr.com/photos/.
I’ll still be adding my best shots and sets to the gallery here, but they’re now also available on Flickr too (it’s all a bit more sociable you see…). I think this project is a great idea – a good way to get less confident photographers talking to their subjects. It’s so easy to just snap away and get candids, but it’s much harder to come out from behind the telephoto and step up to the plate in such a direct way. You can find out more about the whole thing at www.100strangers.com.