Long term projects

[winger]

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A thought on your library idea. In 2008 Michael Mutmansky, my 7x17 mentor, had a show of Pennsylvania post office images. It seems that during the depression many of PA's post offices had large murals painted of workers doing the work they most wanted to do. Perhaps there is something like that in the home locations of thread writers here that would make a good series.
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John

The Scottdale, PA post office has a large mural around the top of the outer room - I think it's of fields and farms? - and someone was photographing it (with one those non-apug cameras) one day when I went in. The mural has an "Americana" look to it in the painting style.

 

[NB23]

Hi NB23,
What a beautiful project! And the attached file of the prints show some fine prints. It would be a shame to only stack these beauties in boxes.
I would love to see these in real live. Are you in Europe somewhere? (I'm in Holland).
Scanning might be a problem with these sizes. But did you consider using a digital camera instead of a scanner? I have a nice setting with my DeVere 8x10" enlarger for analogue repro work. This could also be used for making a good digital repro image of an original print without quality loss. These digital images could be used for making a book. Or be posted on a blog from time to time.
If you really could use someone to help with this project, you can call me (or send a PM).

Thanks a lot for your help.
I have decided that for now I will concentrate on archival printing. Once I'll have finished, the rest shallbd a breeze. At least I hope. Sonetimes I fet a headache when I myst go through a few prints to find a particular one. Maybe one day Ill reprint themin 5x7 which is a beautiful size.

 

[BradleyK]

I have two projects ongoing at the moment. The first, shot in colour, is a long-term documentary project on the GVRD (Metro Vancouver); I expect to be at this for at least another two years. The second, shot exclusively in 35mm black and white, is also a documentary effort. Begun at the start of this year, the effort is currently theme-less; possibly after a few more months at it some shape will emerge (?). Using only an M6 and a three lens kit (35,50,90), the undertaking is, like MattKrull's, a "1/7/52" project. Basically, the camera is with me wherever I happen to be; when I see something interesting, I grab a shot...

 

[horacekenneth]

My long term project is shooting the people of Serbia. 150 kodachrome rolls yet to be scanned. And printing all my best on 20x24 fb. I'm onto my 600th print and about double that to go to catch up to 2013. Until then I'll probably be in 2017 with a new stash of films to print, leading me to 2025. It's all cool. I love it. Started in '94... Probably never gonna stop. The end of this project will be when I die, I guess.

I'd love to make a book but I'm tangled with these huge prints, I just can't scan them. And I don't want to go through another super tedious round of printing on smaller paper. So a book is out of the question. My prints will finish, signed and numbered, in piled boxes for the next 50
Years or until someone will want to mess with them. I've created a monster and I don't want to deal with it. For bow I'm just stacking... And stacking... And stacking.

wow, those look great, I would love to see more

 

[jp80874]

This subject came up in a phone conversation with an old friend that I had not talked to in a while. His wife is a voice teacher in NY City. He is a graphics designer and photographer. They both bicycle a lot. His long term project is photographing musicians carrying their instruments, mostly on their backs in packs, on subways, in parks, airports, in public bathrooms, in museums, libraries, on bicycles. It is a bizarre form of environmental portraiture. He says he has about 500 shots now and says it has been a lot of fun.

John Powers

 

[darkosaric]

Thank you all for feedbacks .

I think my next long project will be to shoot in series of three: 3 negatives one after another - and they should tell some mini story. Or 3x3 - nine negatives to tell some longer story.
It will be easy to do contact prints and show them.

 

[TheToadMen]

My teacher always said that five images or more makes a series ....

 

[TimFox]

For the last 8 years, I kept talking about assembling a portfolio on the Chicago River, within the city. In April, I finally started to assemble the images, mostly 4x5 transparencies taken between roughly 1995 and the present. They are being assembled as 11 by 14 prints, and the final portfolio will be between 30 and 40 images.