Projections Project (Beijing)
Projections Project
The Projections Project is collaboration between myself and my friend, Joshua Neves. In early May of 2007 we met for dinner. Over the course of the evening, and a couple of beers later, an idea was concocted that would combine our diverse talents. As a result, I moved to Beijing for six months. This collaboration between myself, a photographer, and Josh, an academic researcher, would yield over 17,000 images of the ever-changing public spaces of Beijing, preceding the Olympics. I have included a few of my favorite images from this project. These photos all involve vinyl panels with various motifs. These panels were placed around construction sites and served as beautification partitions. These images are not composites. The only photoshopping that was done was basic color correction and, in some cases, minimal cropping. While these images do appear at first glance to be composites, or collages of some sort, they are in reality deceiving simply because of the way I decided to frame the scene and the subject matter. Please check out www.projectionsproject.com for more information.
