Presentation to @CamDarkroom during April 2012 - check out http://disposablememoryproject.org for more details on the projects mentioned in the

1. Say Cheese!

2. This is me.

3. I’m a Developer
Technical Director
Creative Technologist
Creative Technical Director
Technical Creative Director
Head of Creative Technology
Head of Innovation
Strategic Technologist
Digital Director
mix of lots of things without a useful title

4. 1978 1999 2001 2008 2012

5. 90%
20%

8. TheVisualDictionary.net

9. >12,000 images
>6000 words
>3% of the OED

11. We take one of these.

12. Put a few instructions on it..

13. And then leave it somewhere

21. We’ve done it 455 times

22. In over 70 countries

23. People find the cameras

24. People find the cameras

25. People find the cameras

26. People find the cameras

27. Take a few photos...

28. ...Then pass the camera on again

29. Until the film is finished...

30. Then we develop and share.

31. 455 Cameras
73 Countries
Six Languages
2000+ Codes
500,000+ miles
30 returned
600+ images

32. Digital Photography is HUGE
6 billion images
hosted on Flickr (August 2011)

33. Digital Photography is HUGE
6 billion images
uploaded to Facebook
every month

34. Instant Gratification is.. instant

35. Slowing things down

36. Inspiration comes in many forms.

37. Start Locally

38. Spread thru Personal Network

39. “I think I would like to do one
for Boston, and also one for
New York. Can you sort me out
with some info? I have
disposable camera, and ziplock
bags already.”

40. First non-UK drop.

41. And first to be found

42. First USA drop. First Stranger!

44. Camera 29
15 days
1060 miles, 4 people
California; Arizona

45. Camera 22
146 days
12 miles, 4 people
Amsterdam; Haarlem;
Heemstede

46. Camera 47
96 days
13,000 miles, 3 people
Cornwall; Thailand; Cambodia

47. Camera 38
93 days
12,600 miles, 2 people
England; Cambodia

48. Camera 73
9 days
0 miles, 2 people
Frankfurt, Germany

49. Camera 76
22 days
? miles, ? people
Glasgow, Scotland

50. Camera 85
29 days
? miles, 2 people
Morro Bay, California

51. Camera 24
948 days
26299 miles, 6 people
England, Philippines, Hong Kong
Indonesia, Australia

52. Camera 84
82 days
5300 miles, 3 people
London; San Fran; Oakland

53. London -
Hong Kong -
Vancouver -
Montreal -
Toronto -
Hong Kong -

54. Camera 159
362 days
18793 miles, 6 people
Wales, England, Denmark,
Greenland, Antarctica, Ireland

55. Sometimes it doesn’t work

56. Why do people get involved?

57. A sense of community
A sense of nostalgia/novelty

58. Lomography

59. Instagram

60. Mystery; The Unknown

61. Success of a camera

62. http://theplug.net/28/strangerphotos.htm

63. http://www.photochaining.com/

66. The more, the merrier

67. objectory.io

68. Where next?

69. More more more

70. Le projet des souvenirs jetables
感謝你找到我
Si ha tomado todas las fotos las revelaremos.
Здравствуйте и спасибо, что
нашли меня!
このカメラを使って何枚か写真を
撮ってください。 好きな風景、
人物など、何でもよいです。
Το πρόγραμμα αναλώσιμης μνήμης
Wo habt ihr die Kameras gefunden?

71. • The Book
• The Exhibit
• The Documentary
• The Musical

72. Space, the final frontier?

74. “Wherever it is, just promise me that
if you get a camera full of pictures of
my ex-girlfriend in union with a
Spanish coastguard you won’t tell
me.”

75. “One of the children decided to
start shining the light into my
eyes from across the yard. So I
played a along by dodging in and
out of the pillars to hide and
snapped the last couple of shots
on the roll as I did so.
The little girl’s parents had died
in a housefire two weeks before
but she was so full of life you
couldn’t help liking her.”

76. “that cam was like a sign to say
‘you’re not alone, that will be the
present for your birthday’..”

81. £3.50=priceless

82. Please Join In!

83. Thank-you.
DisposableMemoryProject.org
@foundacam
The100.thinkplaymake.co
@the_one_hundred
webponce.com
@webponce