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‘Document democracy’, ‘Design for Democracy’, ‘Polling Place Photo Project’ – these are a few of the catchy terms all applying to tomorrow’s open-source nationwide photography event, where AIGA ((another convoluted acronym, it’s actually impossible to find out on AIGA’s website<\/a> what it stands for! I eventually found out on their Wikipedia entry<\/a>)) is asking for participants (following local law of course)<\/p>\n to collect photographs of every polling place in America<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Unfortunately it’s initiative is purely design-oriented ((”With citizens’ images and the information that accompanies them, the Project becomes a research tool on how voting happens in America and how it can be designed to be easier, less confusing and more enjoyable.”)), but I think it has lots of other great applications, such as the spontaneous collective social photography that hopefully will come out of this project (browse photographs here<\/a>). Conceptually perhaps most-interesting is under their ‘How To Participate<\/a>‘, where it says, in bold no less:<\/p>\n If you are wondering what to photograph, take a picture of that!<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n I think this notion best-underpins their objectives, and I also wish that this approach to photography was taken more-often! I know I sure as hell take a lot of photographs, digitally, on average around 20-30 a day (11,000 a year!), and I’ve found some of the best photos I’ve taken are the ones where I spent the least amount of time wondering about what to photograph<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n Footnotes:<\/p>\n ‘Document democracy’, ‘Design for Democracy’, ‘Polling Place Photo Project’ – these are a few of the catchy terms all applying to tomorrow’s open-source nationwide photography event, where AIGA ((another convoluted acronym, it’s actually impossible to find out on AIGA’s website what it stands for! I eventually found out on their Wikipedia entry)) is asking for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[479,1234],"series":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-democracy","tag-photography"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/document-democracy.jpg?fit=500%2C228&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-3v","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3102,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/3102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/div><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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