About a year ago, I joined the 100 Strangers Project group on Flickr. I love the idea of forcing oneself out of the normal comfort zone to ask people you don't know if you can take their portrait.
One evening, while at the street music festival with my husband and another friend, Tony, we decided to power through the strangers project, seeing as I had only taken 2 Stranger photos in 9 months.
I didn't get most of their names and I didn't spend any time with them, hence not really following the guidelines of the original project. This was still super fun, but I realized that I was making a NEW project, which could in turn become a new group: the Speed Strangers group was born.
The challenge I am creating for Speed Strangers: take as many quick one-person stranger portraits as fast as you can. If you randomly end up with their name or any other personal info, get it quick and move on. See how many random strangers you can photograph. The caveat: please try to take at least a little time to create nice portraits. The Strangers must know you are shooting them. NO random street strangers. Please ask people to take their portrait, snap it and go forth, por favor.
As a nod to the inspiration for this group, please see the rules for "100 Strangers:"
"The challenge: Take 100 photographs of at least 100 people you don't know. Approach a person or group of people and ask for permission to both take a photo of them and to post it to this group. Get to know your subjects. Who are they? What is their life like?
Try to tell a small story with each photo you take. This may be a story about the person or how you felt approaching that particular individual. You may have, for example, tried a new approach or used a new photographic technique. Try to learn something from every encounter you make."
http://www.flickr.com/groups/100strangers/
thank you, "100 Strangers, " for the spin off idea!
Now, for a few random strangers and a link to my flickr set! I don't want to set a number yet for how many you should take. 100 will go really fast, so for now, the group is set as "speed strangers." numeral TBD at a later date.
enjoy!
One evening, while at the street music festival with my husband and another friend, Tony, we decided to power through the strangers project, seeing as I had only taken 2 Stranger photos in 9 months.
I didn't get most of their names and I didn't spend any time with them, hence not really following the guidelines of the original project. This was still super fun, but I realized that I was making a NEW project, which could in turn become a new group: the Speed Strangers group was born.
The challenge I am creating for Speed Strangers: take as many quick one-person stranger portraits as fast as you can. If you randomly end up with their name or any other personal info, get it quick and move on. See how many random strangers you can photograph. The caveat: please try to take at least a little time to create nice portraits. The Strangers must know you are shooting them. NO random street strangers. Please ask people to take their portrait, snap it and go forth, por favor.
As a nod to the inspiration for this group, please see the rules for "100 Strangers:"
"The challenge
Try to tell a small story with each photo you take. This may be a story about the person or how you felt approaching that particular individual. You may have, for example, tried a new approach or used a new photographic technique. Try to learn something from every encounter you make."
http://www.flickr.com/groups/100strangers/
thank you, "100 Strangers, " for the spin off idea!
Now, for a few random strangers and a link to my flickr set! I don't want to set a number yet for how many you should take. 100 will go really fast, so for now, the group is set as "speed strangers." numeral TBD at a later date.
enjoy!
