On my birthday this past October, I began a year long project of daily photos taken and posted online. In just a few months, I have already taken a couple thousand photos, and as of this date, posted less than 80 photos. My original intention was simply to take these photos one by one, but eventually, I was seeing themes developing in the work, and thus I began shaping the themes of the work once I identified an underlying current.
Recession was the first theme and the most natural of themes. Much of my initial inspiration for the photos came from the countless signs on empty businesses that dot the area everywhere around me. Soon other forms of “recession” began to emerge in the work, less literal and I leave it to the viewer to judge for themselves.
My underlying rule to all the work has been that all photos are exactly they happened. No posing, no setups. A moment captured, and sometimes stolen, in time. By the end of this project, I very well may come to be known as the poet laureate of shopping carts.
Before the end of the year, I will be catching my galleries up to the current date, and then they will be published monthly thereafter.
To view higher resolution images of these and all of the 365 photos, you can view them here via Picasa.
Recession by Stefan Rhys is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://www.facebook.com/new.era.artist or by e-mailing me directly at connect (at) coffeecartproductions (dot) com.