Because of this rather instant success it is becoming clearer what the photo project “How the world loves” actually truly implies.
What it is really about.
One of the remarkable things, as it is turning out, of the photo project “How the world loves” is that the images are very, very powerful.
They impress a viewer strongly and even initiate tender emotions.
While the images contributed are very ordinary, amateur images.
In another context, hardly anybody would pay any attention to the images.
Except the persons shown in the images or related to them.
But this context of an international website and the framework of showing how someone loves, makes a different spotlight shine on the images.
They are almost like lifted up and becoming important and valuable not only for the ones closely related to the images, but to all the visitors of the website of the photo project “How the world loves”.
Another aspect of the photo project “How the world loves” is that as an artist photographer a whole new avenue is walked.
Traditionally, a photographer chooses a subject, makes the images and present them.
A way of operating that is like a doctrine.
The conventional way of working for a photographer.
But in the case of the photo project “How the world loves”, the photographer is not making any picture.
He only had the idea for the project and created the framework for others to showcase their images.
That is a very unusual role for a photographer to play.
Pioneering indeed.
The exciting part is that it is completely unknown where the photo project “How the world loves” will lead to.
How it will develop and what more shapes it will take.
There is at this stage not much thinking about it.
For the moment much effort is made to promote the photo project “How the world loves” and to get as many people as possible contribute their images.
If at one point a serious amount is reached, new ideas may develop how to proceed with the photo project “How the world loves”.
Possibly a traveling exhibition.
A photo book.
Or making prints of all the images contributed; to put them in a spaceship to send out to unknown civilizations to inform them who we are.
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