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DISPOSABLE CAMERA PROJECT

The Disposable Camera Project was done by Colour Box Studio based in Merlbourne.  The Colour Box Studio is a pop up art space and online creative hub. The director, Amie Batalibasi, decided to do a project using a disposable camera. There were nine participants who took part in the project. They get asked to fill a disposable camera with images over a period of 24 hours. The project had been going on for 3 years. Each of the participants have their unique style and perceptions. What they view as a good image all varies. The project achieved a vast difference in style of images and subject. A book was created containing all the images called “The Disposable Camera Project.”

The disposable camera project draws in on the idea of freedom of expression because it allows people to expressive themselves and show their own unique outlook of the world thorough photography. A disposable camera allows people who may not be use to using a camera to be able to very simply capture a scene or a scenario they find beautiful or interesting. It gives them an easy way of expressing themselves.

When researching more about photographers who use disposable cameras, I came across an article on the internet about a guy called Matt Blodgett. He is an American Photographer and full time construction worker. The article I came across was an interview including Matt Blodgett and the process he goes through when taking his images. He is 31 years old and grew up on the Canadian border in the Thousand Islands of upstate, New York. He recently moved to southern Berkshire County in Western Massachusetts where he was originally born. When Blodgett was asked about why he uses disposable cameras a lot he explains how they allow him to have fun with photography. He believes that some photographers take photography to seriously, which in some cases is very true. Blodgett doesn’t see him self as a photographer but when it comes to disposable cameras the implicitness of it allows any one to do it. What he aims to share with his photos is a “rolling diary of imagery that I live with and love.”  He doesn’t think before he shoots, he simply takes what he views as beautiful. Here are some of Matt Blodgett’s images below. 

His images are mainly of nature because this is what he views as beauty. He is similar to the photographers I have researched so far because the images that he collects are from day to day and they contain this spiritual atmosphere. I plan on collecting images in a similar process to this as a point in my project.  They don’t need to have a deeper meaning, just a simple object or scene will do.

I’ve given myself the task of collecting images in the same style and process as the one done within the disposable camera project. I bought a simple disposable camera from boots and kept the camera with me throughout a couple of days. Whenever I saw something interesting that I wanted to capture I made sure I got it. However I was looking close at detail rather then just the whole scene.