Information
- I started this project collctive in August 2012-
- each year the themes and the contibutors change-
- The 1st year we produced projects based on HOME and the work was projected at the Kaunas photo festival 2012
- Last year some photographers left us and two more and an artist joined us. We worked on a publication for Day4 magazine edited by Vouge picture editor Fiona Hayes on the theme 10. We produced a group project on the sub-theme -
four score years & ten. The joint work was publsihed in September 2013 and sent out to profesionals European wide. - This year and into 2015 we are three photographers looking for collaboarters in the academic, artistic and journalistic world to work with. The theme this year will simply be B L O O D and our ambition is to display an online gallery of work in progress, where the public can contribute, view and comment on. A newspaper style magazine of teh chosen projects produced as ten one off self made books and a pop up exhibition in each participants home city.
- A kickstarter campaign for funding will begin at the end of the year.
You can view previouse projects and participants on the homelands tumblr website, where there is further information about the idea and the photographers as well as some of the 2012 projections on the main page.
http://homelandsproject.tumblr.com
Manifesto
To work on intimate long term documentary stories based in our own country or adopted homeland
produce a yearly group theme project to be showcased at a major photographic festival which will also form the basis and subject matter of a city project and workshop
To commit to meet four times a year to review work,new member applications and formulate ideas ,grant applications and festival proposals
To seek new ways of communicating our work to prospective audiences, curators and editors and to develop ideas for the public space
work with educational,cultural and charity institutions to promote and expose the issues and creative agendas close to all our hearts
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