Moving fast is not the same as going somewhere. ~ Robert Anthony
The day seven theme for our Through My Lens photography adventure is:
How do you move through Toronto?
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Day 6
Day 5
Day 4
Day 3
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward. -Margaret Fairless Barber
The day three theme for our Through My Lens photography adventure is:
Where do you see change taking place?
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This is why we do it…
Exhibit Change is leading Through My Lens as a project to get to know what people are paying attention to in the city. We created Through My Lens as a way to get people to take a second look at what is around them. We often get settled into a routine and lose track of what else is going on around us, the 10 themes for Through My Lens are curated to encourage you to look again. There are over 100 photographers participating in Through My Lens, so we are expecting to see a lot of amazing pictures and capture a lot of stories. The images from Through My Lens will be available to visitors at our Nuit Blanche exhibit to curate onto our rental truck. It is going to be a spectacular visual statement as to what the city is focusing on and what the community is saying. Inside the rental truck, there will be a cardboard cityscape as a backdrop to more conversation and an interactive photo-shoot. Through My Lens is a photography project on the outside, but for us it is a way to use a creative tool to get people into discussion about the city.
Through My Lens is a 10 day, city focused, themed photography adventure with 4 neighbourhood walking tours. Each neighbourhood walking tour is intended to inspire our photographers to explore, capture and share what our city has to offer. On September 7, we kicked off Through My Lens with a walking tour in the Junction. We walked for 2 hours and took many pictures. On September 10, we will be heading to Jane and Finch and discovering the environmental side of the neighbourhood. On September 11, we will be walking through the history of the design and people of social housing on the East End of Toronto. And our last walking tour will be on September 14, from Grange Park to Jane Jacob’s house in the Annex.
Exhibit Change is a design driven community engagement organization. All of our projects use design and play to engage citizens into community conversations. We visual our projects lending itself to be a platform for people to be creative, design and make positive action. Sometimes our materials are play-doh, lego and pipe cleaners, this time it is photography, but every time we do a project we do it to build community ownership.
Through My Lens is a collaboration project with Exhibit Change, Toronto Urban Exchange and Hello-Foto.
Day 2
Day 1
Because we don’t think about future generations, they will never forget us.
-Henrik Tikkanen
The day one theme for our Through My Lens photography adventure is:
What is green?
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Don’t Forget – TONIGHT
We have a neighborhood walk of the Junction tonight. Meet at 7pm at Keele and Dundas St W to discover Toronto and inspire your photography. Check out the Facebook event for all the details.
Participating in Through My Lens
Through My Lens is on from September 7 -16, for 10 days over 100 photographers will be sharing in a city focused themed photography adventure. We are so excited to see the pictures rolling in.
How to Submit
To submit your photos for each theme you can upload your photos three ways:
Upload to our Flickr Groups page, Through My Lens – Exhibit Change (if you haven’t created a Flickr account yet you will have to do so first, follow the prompts)
Upload to our Facebook Page, Exhibit Change, by sharing your photo on our wall (you have to “like” us on Facebook to share a photo on our wall)
Email us directly.
For each photo please specify the day’s theme and send along a 100 word description for why you feel this photo relates to that theme.
*Please be aware once you submit your photos via Flickr, Facebook or email they are now the property of Exhibit Change and can be used both in the Nuit Blanche exhibit and as promotional material for Exhibit Change.*
One week until Through My Lens
We are one week from launching Through My Lens, so I thought now would be a good time for a little history. In March, I met with Cat who came to be with an idea to get people to take pictures in their cities in order to start getting stories and ideas about the city. This idea blossomed and now we are running Through My Lens in Toronto and in Kingston.
Over 100 photographers will be taking city inspired images for 10 days in Toronto. For added inspiration, we are leading 4 neighbourhood walking tours around Toronto. Their images and stories will be collected for our Nuit Blanche exhibit in Parkdale. We are 1 of 18 rental truck installations in Leitmotif and 1 of 5 community based installations. Our truck installation is an interactive city building themed truck.
When you come to visit us on October 1, you are the curator of our exhibit. You will help us design our exhibit with hundreds of city images, then we will layer your stories and build dialogue. Inside the truck you can participate in storytelling and a photo shoot with a cardboard city scape backdrop. We are looking to gain insight into what the community focuses on in the city and how we can inspire positive change.
Inspire Yourself!
Jenn