THIS IS A QUESTION

-In relation to the work that has been submitted to the Flickr site ‘Hackney in Focus’, I would like to clarify our position on who it is that should/shouldn’t submit work to the group and eventually the work to be displayed at the In-Focus Exhibition. It has been said that our position is that of curators, where our responsibilities are to the creation of a successful group exhibition with the main input of work to be displayed being provided by ‘others’ – the public. The original concept was to ask people to send in images from their mobiles, we then do a drift through Hackney and upload our images onto the Flickr site.

As it is at the moment on the Flickr site, most of the work has been uploaded by a photographer called Dinoboy and very few by the members of our group. The work we show cannot be a haphazard collection of images that we put together at the last moment on the night of opening, therefore I feel that we must ‘all’ submit a body of work either by mobile, compact or SLR camera from one or many drifts from across the borough of Hackney so that we have a collection of work that has been derived from sampling the cohort of the 3rd year Digi-photo group as well as work from other people who submit.



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