Collaborating Unknown Moments
Ever wonder what your neighbor down the street is doing right now? Or how about what a busy mother in Iowa was doing 30 minutes ago? Maybe even what a lazy teenager in Florida will be doing in the evening? Every one of us has some sort of story to tell.
Photographer Kyle Cassidy decide to capture “the quite, unknown moments that make up our lives” in a unique way. He recruited 23 strangers from across the country to keep cameras with them at all times for 2 full days. Over the course of those 48 hours, Cassidy sent 11 text messages sporadically requesting the participants to photograph whatever it was they were doing at that particular moment.
As Kyle Cassidy explains:
“We worked together like bees — each doing our little bit, apart from the others, but producing something greater and, ultimately, understood by none of us individually.
This is what it looks like in the hive….”
The point of The Hive Photography Project? Even Kyle Cassidy isn’t sure, but he theorizes that it reiterates the idea that we all innately have a human desire to be a part of something. More concretely, Cassidy points to the seemingly obvious: technology enables personal collaboration that would otherwise be impossible.
Some may interpret the idea as mundane, but as a paparazzi to my own life, The Hive Project intrigues me. I would’ve loved to be a part of an effort like this! But to see who actually was a part of the project, you can learn more about the faces behind the cameras.
Kyle Cassidy has been photographing American Culture since the 1980′s. His best selling documentary photography book Armed America: Portraits of Gun Owners in Their Homes was awarded Amazon.com’s “Best 100 books of 2007″ and “10 Best Art Books of 2007″ listings. He lives in Philadelphia and likes writing about himself in the third person.
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